Julian Brave NoiseCat is an American and Canadian writer, filmmaker, and activist and an enrolled member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq'secen of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) Nation in British Columbia, Canada. He works as a public thinker and advocate on issues of climate justice and Indigenous rights in North America. NoiseCat's debut documentary, Sugarcane, which he directed alongside Emily Kassie, won the Directing Award at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. The film went on to receive an Academy Award nomination in 2025, making NoiseCat the first filmmaker Indigenous to North America to receive an Oscar nomination.