Tulsa Film Collective presents free community screening of SUGARCANE ahead of Indigenous Peoples’ Day | News [Video]

TULSA, Okla. — Tulsa Film Collective (TFC) presented a free community screening of SUGARCANE ahead of Indigenous Peoples’ Day at Circle Cinema in the Kendall Whittier district. 

The screening featured a discussion with filmmakers Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, moderated by TFC co-founder Sterlin Harjo. 

Guests experienced a reception catered by Chef Nico Albert Williams of Burning Cedar Sovereign Kitchen. 

The screening began at 6 and a Q&A followed. 

SUGARCANE is the debut feature documentary from Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie. 

The film gives a cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of international reckoning. 

In 2021, evidence of unmarked graves was discovered on the grounds of an Indian residential school run by the Catholic Church in Canada. 

“SUGARCANE follows an investigation into abuse and missing children at the Indian residential school my family was sent to near Williams Lake, British Columbia in Canada,” said Julian NoiseCat. 

After years of silence, the forced separation, assimilation and abuse many children …