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Nat Geo Buys ‘Sugarcane’ Documentary Out Of Sundance
EXCLUSIVE: Sugarcane has become the latest big documentary deal out of the Sundance Film Festival. Nat Geo has snapped up the doc, an investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school which ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve. Deadline understands that the Disney-owned factual brand has struck a deal in […]
The streamer also snapped up Angela Patton and Natalie Rae’s Daughters, Benjamin Ree’s Ibelin and Jeff Zimbalist’s Skywalkers: A Love Story, while Warner Bros. Drawing on their backgrounds in activism and journalism — as well as NoiseCat’s own personal connection to the story and community — Sugarcane explores the lasting intergenerational legacy of trauma from the residential school system — including forced family separation, physical and sexual abuse, and the destruction of Native culture and language. Executive producers for the film are Bill Way, Elliott Whitton, Jenny Raskin, Geralyn White Dreyfous, Tegan Acton, Emma Pompetti, Grace Lay, Sumalee Montano, Sabrina Merage Naim, Douglas Choi, Adam and Melony Lewis, Meadow Fund, JanaLee Cherneski and Ian Desai, David and Linda Cornfield, Maida Lynn, and Robina Riccitiello.
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