BEING BLACK IN TORONTO
WINNER OF BEST DIRECTION IN A DOCUMENTARY SERIES
AT THE 2021 CANADIAN SCREEN AWARDS
PART OF FABIENNE COLAS FOUNDATION’S BEING BLACK IN CANADA PROGRAM
– Produced by Zaza Manufacturing and broadcast on CBC
(Toronto, Could 18, 2021) – BEING BLACK IN TORONTO, a part of Fabienne Colas Basis’s BEING BLACK IN CANADA Collection – Produced by Zaza manufacturing and broadcast on CBC – has received Greatest Path in a Documentary Collection on the 2021 Canadian Display screen Awards (CSA). This system, offered by NETFLIX in collaboration with Nationwide Financial institution, can be supported by Telefilm Canada, Canada Media Fund, and the Canada Council for the Arts
“This is an amazing recognition! Congratulations to our gifted rising Black filmmakers who made historical past by successful Greatest Path in a Documentary Collection at the 2021 Canadian Display screen Awards for our Being Black in Toronto 2019/2020 (A part of FCF’s Being Black in Canada Collection),” Mentioned Fabienne Colas, CEO & Founding father of the Black Movie Festivals in Montreal, Toronto, Halifax, Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver & The Fabienne Colas Basis. “We’re grateful in the direction of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Tv for recognizing that Black tales do matter and that Black filmmakers are proficient. It additionally proves another time that Black rising Filmmakers don’t lack expertise. They only lack alternatives. And that is precisely what the Fabienne Colas Basis’s Being Black in Canada program provides. We’re so proud to be amplifying extra Black voices by this program throughout Canada with the help of our Companions.”
As a part of the FCF’s BEING BLACK IN CANADA program, rising filmmakers addressed the problem of social integration of individuals from Black communities of their metropolis by movie beneath mentorship of movie professionals together with Oya Media Group. The contributors offered their movies as a World Premiere on the Montreal Worldwide Black Movie Pageant, adopted by Toronto Black Movie Pageant and the Halifax Black Movie Pageant
Listed here are the FCF’s Being Black in Canada: Being Black in Toronto CSA winners:
- Omolola Ajao: YYZ
- Valerie Amponsah: Joseph, Margaret & I
- Yasmin Evering-Kerr: The Onyx Butterfly
- Sharine Taylor: Tallawah Overseas
- Adrian Wallace: Black Solar
- Yvano Wickham-Edwards: #Black
BEING BLACK IN TORONTO is out there for streaming on CBC GEM.
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
The Fabienne Colas Basis’s BEING BLACK IN CANADA Program – offered by NETFLIX in collaboration with Nationwide Financial institution – represents Canada’s largest incubator devoted to Black Filmmakers. As a part of the Fabienne Colas Basis’s Youth and Range Initiative, the FCF’s Being Black in Canada program was created to make up for the blatant lack of range and the dearth of Black Individuals in entrance and behind the digicam in Canada. Based in 2012, with the primary cohort launched in 2014, the Program provides a voice and a platform to creators who wouldn’t in any other case be seen or heard. The Basis actively promotes equal alternatives for Black Movie professionals whereas fostering Range on our screens that sadly showcase content material that’s too white for a very numerous society. The Program, offered by Netflix in collaboration with Nationwide Financial institution, is supported by Telefilm Canada, Canada Media Fund, and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Watch the 2019 movies on-line at GEM Toronto, TeleQuebec.television, CBC GEM Halifax
Concerning the Fabienne Colas Basis
The Fabienne Colas Basis (FCF) – Canada’s largest Black cultural group – is a not-for-profit group devoted to constructing bridges and advancing schooling by the humanities in addition to to help the creation, manufacturing, promotion and dissemination of cinema, the humanities and tradition in Canada and elsewhere. To satisfy its mission, the Basis put collectively 11 festivals and applications to interrupt limitations, rejoice range, foster togetherness, understanding and inclusion. Since its inception in 2005, its initiatives/festivals have showcased and supported over 3,000 artists and attracted over 2 million festivalgoers in Canada, the USA, Haiti and Brazil. The Basis principally promotes Black tradition in Montréal, Toronto, Halifax, New York Metropolis et Salvador de Bahia (Brazil); and Quebec tradition in Port-au-Prince.
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Talar Adam: press@torontoblackfilm.com