"The revelations of Sugarcane are many, but perhaps the most shocking one is the evidence that the film-makers bring forth that infanticide was practiced at this school, where the bodies of children of women abused by Catholic priests were incinerated on school grounds. As it turns out, this horrific discovery has serious implications for co-director Julian Brave NoiseCat, whose father, Archie, may have been the only survivor of these events. Julian makes the courageous decision to place himself into the movie, and we see father and son slowly work through years of estrangement and decades of history to learn the facts about how Archie came into this world. “This film is also about the resilience and the love of the community and the families that you see here,” said NoiseCat.

-- Veronica Esposito, The Guardian

Join Sugarcane director Julian Brave Noisecat and Happy Thanksgiving director (and Sundance Institute Indigenous Film Fund Fellow), ishkwaazhe Shane McSauby in conversation with Tracy Peterson following the screening.