Sugarcane - Documentary Showing with Director Julian Brave NoiseCat

Name: Sugarcane - Documentary Showing with Director Julian Brave NoiseCat
Start: 2026-06-06T17:30:00-06:00
Location: Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center

Schedule

Sat, 06 Jun, 2026 at 05:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center | Great Falls, MT

Native author Julian Brave NoiseCat joins us to give a FREE showing of Sugarcane at 6 pm at the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center, with a question and answer period afterward with Mr. Brave NoiseCat himself, who served as a producer on the film. Doors open at 5:30 pm.
In 2021, evidence of unmarked graves was discovered on the grounds of an Indian residential school run by the Catholic Church in Canada, sparking a national outcry and setting off searches across North America. After years of silence, the forced separation, assimilation and abuse many children experienced at these segregated boarding schools is coming to light.
Set amidst a groundbreaking investigation, SUGARCANE illuminates the heartbreak and beauty of a community breaking cycles of intergenerational trauma and finding the strength to survive.
JULIAN BRAVE NOISECAT is a writer, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker, champion powwow dancer, and student of Salish art and history. His writing has appeared in dozens of publications,
including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The New Yorker. NoiseCat has been recognized with numerous awards, including the 2022 American Mosaic Journalism Prize and many National Native Media Awards. He was a finalist for the Livingston Award and multiple Canadian National Magazine Awards and was named to the TIME100 Next list in 2021. His first documentary, Sugarcane, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary. Directed alongside Emily Kassie, Sugarcane premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where NoiseCat
and Kassie won the Directing Award for U.S. Documentary. NoiseCat is a proud member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq’escen and descendant of the Lil’wat Nation of Mount Currie. We Survived the Night is his first book.
Thank you to the Great Falls Public Library Foundation and the Montana Arts Council for sponsoring this event. Additional support from coal tax placed into Montana’s Cultural and Aesthetic Projects Trust Fund.