Emily Kassie

Emily Kassie is a filmmaker, investigative journalist, and cinematographer.[1][2] Her debut feature documentary Sugarcane premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Directing Award.[3]

Career

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 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 with co-director Julian Brave NoiseCat. The film won the Grand Jury Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival.[15]

Early life and education

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 was broadcast on the CBC.[19]

Selected awards

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 [10]
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 [20]
2017 PDN Photo Annual Multimedia Won [21]
2016 World Press Photo Awards Multimedia, Immersive Storytelling Won, 3rd place [22]
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 [23]
2015 Columbus Film Festival Silver Chris Award for Best In Category Won [24]
2015 Cleveland International Film Festival Best Documentary Won, 2nd place [25]
2015 Global Film Awards Outstanding Achievement Humanitarian Award  Won [26]

References

  1. ^ "Emily Kassie". Pulitzer Center.
  2. ^ "How Emily Kassie brings a fresh eye to well-covered stories". Poynter. 2015-05-18. Retrieved 2017-07-11.
  3. ^ "2024 Sundance Film Festival Announces Award Winners". Sundance Institute. 26 January 2024.
  4. ^ "World Press Photo 2016 winners - in pictures". The Guardian. 2016-02-18. Retrieved 2017-07-11.
  5. ^ a b "NPPA Best Of Photojournalism Multimedia Category Winners Announced". NPPA. 2016-03-23.
  6. ^ a b "OPC 20 Best Digital Reporting on International Affairs". opcofamerica.org. 24 March 2017.
  7. ^ a b "The 2017 National Magazine Award Winners: A Reading List". Longreads. 2017-02-07.
  8. ^ a b "ASNE proud to announce winners of 2017 awards for best journalism". asne.org.
  9. ^ "I Just Simply Did What He Wanted | World Press Photo". www.worldpressphoto.org.
  10. ^ a b "THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGAZINE EDITORS ANNOUNCES WINNERS FOR 2020 NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS". www.asme.media.
  11. ^ a b "Detained". The Peabody Awards.
  12. ^ "Emily Kassie". Forbes.
  13. ^ "42nd Annual News & Documentary Nominations – The Emmys". theemmys.tv. 27 July 2021.
  14. ^ a b "Awards Recipients". OPC.
  15. ^ 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.
  16. ^ "Emily Kassie '14 Wins Student Academy Award | Watson Institute". watson.brown.edu. 26 January 2024.
  17. ^ "13 Gates Scholars to join POLIS in 2016 — Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS)". www.polis.cam.ac.uk.
  18. ^ a b "ACADEMY REVEALS 2015 STUDENT ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS". Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2015-08-25.
  19. ^ "CBC.ca - Program Guide - Programs". www.cbc.ca.
  20. ^ "2017 Best of Photojournalism, Multimedia Winners". NPPA. 2017-02-18.
  21. ^ "PDN Photo Annual 2017". PDN 2017 Photo Annual.
  22. ^ "Announcing the 2016 Multimedia Winners". World Press Photo.
  23. ^ Mock, Jared. "IFS Film Festival 2015 Program Guide". www.ifsfilm.com.
  24. ^ "WINNER: PRESTIGIOUS SILVER CHRIS AWARD, COLUMBUS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL". I Married My Family's Killer.
  25. ^ "Awards - Cleveland International Film Festival - CUT". CUT (in French).
  26. ^ "2014 Humanitarian Award Winners |". globalfilmawards.com. Retrieved 2017-05-27.

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