Emily Kassie

Directing

Emily Kassie

Born

1992-12-15 (33)

Place of birth

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Known for

Directing

Credits

25 titles

Emily Kassie (born 15 December 1992; Toronto) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, investigative journalist, and cinematographer. Her debut feature documentary Sugarcane premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Directing Award. In 2016, Kassie won the World Press Photo award for multimedia on the cover up of DuPont's chemical spill in West Virginia and was also named one of NPPA's 2016 multimedia portfolios of the year for her work on radicalization of ISIS operatives and corruption in the pharmaceutical industry. In 2017 she won an Overseas Press Club Award, a National Magazine Award and the ASNE's Punch Sulzberger award for her work reporting on the profiteers of the…

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

Sugarcane poster
7.0

An investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school in Canada ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve.

Sugarcane

2024

Sugarcane poster
7.0

An investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school in Canada ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve.

Sugarcane

2024

Sugarcane poster
7.0

An investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school in Canada ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve.

Sugarcane

2024

No artwork available
NR

Nasir is five years old and loves to break dance, but the New York Police Department have been cracking down on his dance crew. Nasir's parents hope to make a better life for him and his 8 year old brother Mark, as they deal with discrimination in New York City.

Break Kids

2014

No artwork available
NR

Nasir is five years old and loves to break dance, but the New York Police Department have been cracking down on his dance crew. Nasir's parents hope to make a better life for him and his 8 year old brother Mark, as they deal with discrimination in New York City.

Break Kids

2014

No artwork available
NR

Nasir is five years old and loves to break dance, but the New York Police Department have been cracking down on his dance crew. Nasir's parents hope to make a better life for him and his 8 year old brother Mark, as they deal with discrimination in New York City.

Break Kids

2014

Detained poster
NR

A documentary immersive for The Guardian and The Marshall Project revealing the history of immigrant detention in America.

Detained

2020

I Married My Family's Killer poster
NR

Childhood sweethearts Beatrice and Purudenci plan to wed until Beatrice becomes hunted by Purudenci's family during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

I Married My Family's Killer

2014

I Married My Family's Killer poster
NR

Childhood sweethearts Beatrice and Purudenci plan to wed until Beatrice becomes hunted by Purudenci's family during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

I Married My Family's Killer

2014

I Married My Family's Killer poster
NR

Childhood sweethearts Beatrice and Purudenci plan to wed until Beatrice becomes hunted by Purudenci's family during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

I Married My Family's Killer

2014

Banished poster
NR

After passing a series of restrictive housing laws, Miami-Dade County faces an odd predicament: bands of nomadic sex offenders and a cat-and-mouse game to move them.

Banished

2018

Undocumented in the Pandemic poster
NR

With The Marshall Project and the Pulitzer Center, a look at one immigrant mother’s struggle to keep her children safe and housed, with her husband detained by ICE in a facility where COVID is spreading. Also in this two-part hour, Love, Life & the Virus.

Undocumented in the Pandemic

2020

Undocumented in the Pandemic poster
NR

With The Marshall Project and the Pulitzer Center, a look at one immigrant mother’s struggle to keep her children safe and housed, with her husband detained by ICE in a facility where COVID is spreading. Also in this two-part hour, Love, Life & the Virus.

Undocumented in the Pandemic

2020

Undocumented in the Pandemic poster
NR

With The Marshall Project and the Pulitzer Center, a look at one immigrant mother’s struggle to keep her children safe and housed, with her husband detained by ICE in a facility where COVID is spreading. Also in this two-part hour, Love, Life & the Virus.

Undocumented in the Pandemic

2020

A Girl Named C poster
NR

A sensitive examination of child sexual assault, based on the case of a girl who was raped in her New Jersey elementary school by another eleven-year-old student.

A Girl Named C

2018

A Girl Named C poster
NR

A sensitive examination of child sexual assault, based on the case of a girl who was raped in her New Jersey elementary school by another eleven-year-old student.

A Girl Named C

2018

Ward Hall: King of the Sideshow poster
NR

As a boy, Ward Miles Hall always wanted to be a circus performer. He made the dream a reality. He visited each circus as it came through his hometown. The King of the Sideshows started his career in the 1940's.

Ward Hall: King of the Sideshow

2014

Ward Hall: King of the Sideshow poster
NR

As a boy, Ward Miles Hall always wanted to be a circus performer. He made the dream a reality. He visited each circus as it came through his hometown. The King of the Sideshows started his career in the 1940's.

Ward Hall: King of the Sideshow

2014

I Just Simply Did What He Wanted poster
NR

Immigrant detention is expanding under the Trump administration, increasing the risk of sexual assault in a system where abuse is not uncommon.

I Just Simply Did What He Wanted

2018

I Just Simply Did What He Wanted poster
NR

Immigrant detention is expanding under the Trump administration, increasing the risk of sexual assault in a system where abuse is not uncommon.

I Just Simply Did What He Wanted

2018

Anatomy of Hate poster
NR

When three Muslim students are brutally killed by their neighbor, will the murders be classified as a hate crime?

Anatomy of Hate

2020

Anatomy of Hate poster
NR

When three Muslim students are brutally killed by their neighbor, will the murders be classified as a hate crime?

Anatomy of Hate

2020

Into the Deluge poster
NR

In this short documentary from The New York Times, we see the impact of Hurricane Harvey's force as its rains bore down on Texas in 2017. We follow a 911 dispatcher and a pastor's daughter who felt nature at its fiercest - and saw humanity at its best.

Into the Deluge

2017

Into the Deluge poster
NR

In this short documentary from The New York Times, we see the impact of Hurricane Harvey's force as its rains bore down on Texas in 2017. We follow a 911 dispatcher and a pastor's daughter who felt nature at its fiercest - and saw humanity at its best.

Into the Deluge

2017