Emily Kassie

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...