Julian Brave NoiseCat

Julian is a writer, filmmaker and student of Salish art and history. His first documentary, Sugarcane, won the 2024 Directing Award at Sundance Film Festival. The film follows an investigation into abuse and missing children at the Indian residential school his family was sent to near Williams Lake, British Columbia. Julian was awarded the 2022 American Mosaic Journalism Prize and named to the TIME100 Next list of emerging leaders in 2021. Raised in Oakland, he is a proud member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq’escen, a descendant of the Lil’Wat Nation of Mount Currie, and a champion traditional dancer. While at Mesa Refuge, Julian worked on his debut nonfiction book, We Survived the Night, which braids together memoir, reportage and family history.