Julian Brave NoiseCat, author portrait
© Emily Kassie

Julian Brave NoiseCat

JULIAN BRAVE NOISECAT is a writer, filmmaker and student of Salish art and history. His first documentary, Sugarcane, directed alongside Emily Kassie, follows an investigation into abuse and missing children at the Indian residential school NoiseCat’s own family was sent to near Williams Lake, B.C., and won the prize for best direction of a documentary at the 2024 Sundance film festival. NoiseCat is a proud member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq'escen and descendant of the Lil'Wat Nation of Mount Currie; his journalism has appeared in dozens of publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The Walrus and Canadian Geographic and has been recognized with many awards including the 2022 American Mosaic Journalism Prize. Before turning full-time to writing and filmmaking, NoiseCat was a political strategist, policy analyst and cultural organizer. We Survived the Night is his first book.
We Survived the Night

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Sat Nov 08 | 01:45 PM
Winningstad Theatre
1111 SW Broadway
Portland, OR 97205
Google Map

Tue Nov 11 | 06:00 PM
Regent Theatre Ontario Tech
50 King St E
Oshawa, ON L1H 1B3
Google Map

Wed Nov 12 | 06:30 PM
Massey College
4 Devonshire Place
Toronto, ON M5S 2E1
Google Map

Fri Nov 14 | 05:00 PM
gravitypope Gastown
73 Water St,
Vancouver, BC V6B 1A1
Google Map

Sun Nov 23 | 05:00 PM
Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus
300 NE Second Ave., Room 2106, Bldg. 2
Miami, FL 33132
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