Emily Kassie (born 1992) is a filmmaker, investigative journalist, and cinematographer.[1][2] Her debut feature documentary Sugarcane (film) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2024 where it won the Grand Jury Directing Award.[3]
Career edit
In 2016, Kassie won the World Press Photo award for multimedia on the cover up of DuPont's chemical spill in West Virginia[4] 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.[5] In 2017 she won an Overseas Press Club Award,[6] a National Magazine Award[7] and the ASNE's Punch Sulzberger award[8] for her work reporting on the profiteers of the refugee crisis, in Niger, Turkey, Italy and Germany.
In 2019, she won the World Press Photo award and was nominated for an Emmy for her New York Times documentary on sexual abuse in immigrant detention.[9] In 2020, she won a National Magazine Award for her immersive documentary on immigrant detention[10] and was nominated for a Peabody Award.[11] She was named to Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2020.[12] In 2021, she was nominated for an Emmy for a Frontline (American TV program) documentary on undocumented immigrants in the pandemic.[13]
She was part of the PBS NewsHour team to win the Overseas Press Club award for a series on the fall of Afghanistan in 2021.[14]
She served as director, producer and cinematographer of Sugarcane (film) with co-director Julian Brave NoiseCat. The film won the Grand Jury Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival.[15]
Early life and education edit
Kassie received a B.A. from Brown University in 2014[16] and was awarded the Gates Scholarship to the University of Cambridge where she completed an M.Phil in International Relations and Politics in 2017.[17] In 2015 her documentary "I Married My Family's Killer," on post-genocide intermarriage in Rwanda, won the Academy Award for Student Documentary.[18] The film currently broadcasts on the CBC.[19]
Selected awards edit
| Year | Organization Name | Category | Result | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Sundance Film Festival Jury Prize | Directing | Won | [15] |
| 2021 | Overseas Press Club Award | The Peter Jennings Award | Won | [14] |
| 2020 | National Magazine Awards (Ellie) | Multimedia Story of the Year | Won | [20] |
| 2019 | Peabody Awards | General | Nominated | [11] |
| 2017 | Overseas Press Club Award | International Digital Reporting | Won | [6] |
| 2017 | National Magazine Awards (Ellie) | Multimedia Story of the Year | Won | [7] |
| 2017 | American Society of News Editors | The Punch Sulzberger Award for Online Storytelling | Won | [8] |
| 2017 | NPPA Awards | Feature Multimedia Story | Won, 3rd place | [21] |
| 2017 | PDN Photo Annual | Multimedia | Won | [22] |
| 2016 | World Press Photo Awards | Multimedia, Immersive Storytelling | Won, 3rd place | [23] |
| 2016 | NPPA Awards | Portfolio of the Year | Won, 2nd place | [5] |
| 2015 | Student Academy Award | Documentary | Won | [18] |
| 2015 | IFS Film Festival | Best Foreign Short | Won | [24] |
| 2015 | Columbus Film Festival | Silver Chris Award for Best In Category | Won | [25] |
| 2015 | Cleveland International Film Festival | Best Documentary | Won, 2nd place | [26] |
| 2015 | Global Film Awards | Outstanding Achievement Humanitarian Award | Won | [27] |
References edit
- ^ "Emily Kassie." Pulitzer Center. http://pulitzercenter.org/people/emily-kassie
- ^ "How Emily Kassie brings a fresh eye to well-covered stories". Poynter. 2015-05-18. Retrieved 2017-07-11.
- ^ "2024 Sundance Film Festival Announces Award Winners - sundance.org". 26 January 2024.
- ^ "World Press Photo 2016 winners - in pictures". The Guardian. 2016-02-18. Retrieved 2017-07-11.
- ^ a b "NPPA Best Of Photojournalism Multimedia Category Winners Announced". NPPA. 2016-03-23.
- ^ a b "OPC 20 Best Digital Reporting on International Affairs". opcofamerica.org. 24 March 2017.
- ^ a b "The 2017 National Magazine Award Winners: A Reading List". Longreads. 2017-02-07.
- ^ a b "ASNE proud to announce winners of 2017 awards for best journalism". asne.org.
- ^ "I Just Simply Did What He Wanted | World Press Photo". www.worldpressphoto.org.
- ^ "THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGAZINE EDITORS ANNOUNCES WINNERS FOR 2020 NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS". www.asme.media.
- ^ a b "Detained". The Peabody Awards.
- ^ "Emily Kassie". Forbes.
- ^ "42nd Annual News & Documentary Nominations – The Emmys". theemmys.tv.
- ^ a b "Awards Recipients". OPC.
- ^ a b Roka, Les (2024-01-25). "Sundance 2024: Superlative and gripping, Sugarcane takes viewers to elucidating plane of empathy, truth, reconciliation". The Utah Review. Retrieved 2024-01-27.
- ^ "Emily Kassie '14 Wins Student Academy Award | Watson Institute". watson.brown.edu. 26 January 2024.
- ^ "13 Gates Scholars to join POLIS in 2016 — Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS)". www.polis.cam.ac.uk.
- ^ a b "ACADEMY REVEALS 2015 STUDENT ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS". Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2015-08-25.
- ^ "CBC.ca - Program Guide - Programs". www.cbc.ca.
- ^ "THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGAZINE EDITORS ANNOUNCES WINNERS FOR 2020 NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS". www.asme.media.
- ^ "2017 Best of Photojournalism, Multimedia Winners". NPPA. 2017-02-18.
- ^ "PDN Photo Annual 2017". PDN 2017 Photo Annual.
- ^ "Announcing the 2016 Multimedia Winners". World Press Photo.
- ^ Mock, Jared. "IFS Film Festival 2015 Program Guide". www.ifsfilm.com.
- ^ "WINNER: PRESTIGIOUS SILVER CHRIS AWARD, COLUMBUS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL". I Married My Family's Killer.
- ^ "Awards - Cleveland International Film Festival - CUT". CUT (in French).
- ^ "2014 Humanitarian Award Winners |". globalfilmawards.com. Retrieved 2017-05-27.