Emily Kassie is an award-winning filmmaker and investigative journalist, best known for her feature-length documentary, Sugarcane, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary. The film accumulated over 30 international awards, including the Directing Award at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Kassie moved to the US after completing her education and has worked as an investigative journalist for The New York Times, The Guardian and PBS, covering the climate crisis, abuse at immigrant detention centers in the United States, child labor in Turkey, and more. Her coverage of America’s immigrant detention centers was utilized in the 2023 Senate judiciary hearings on family separation at the United States border. She was a Gates Scholar at Cambridge while she worked towards her MPhil in International Relations and Political Science. She was one of the founding members of the Huffington Post’s magazine, Highline. In 2019 she was awarded the Peabody Future of Media award, and in 2020, she was listed in Forbes 30 under 30 in media. Read more.