Emily Kassie
Known for
Directing
Born
December 15, 1992 (age 33)
Birthplace
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Biography
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 Magazine Award and the ASNE's Punch Sulzberger award for her work reporting on the profiteers of the...
Best known work
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
2010
Explained
2018
Sugarcane
2024
Undocumented in the Pandemic
2020
I Married My Family's Killer
2014
A Girl Named C
2018
Detained
2020
Anatomy of Hate
2020
I Just Simply Did What He Wanted
2018
Into the Deluge
2017Filmography
2024
SugarcaneDirector, Producer, Director of Photography, Writer
2020
DetainedDirector
2020
Anatomy of HateDirector, Producer, Director of Photography
2020
Undocumented in the PandemicDirector, Cinematography, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography
2018
A Girl Named CProducer, Director
2018
BanishedDirector
2018
I Just Simply Did What He WantedDirector, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography
2018
2017
Into the DelugeDirector, Producer
2014
I Married My Family's KillerDirector, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography
2014
Ward Hall: King of the SideshowWriter, Director, Director of Photography
2014
Break KidsWriter, Director, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography
2010
Scott Pilgrim vs. the Worldas Winifred Hailey