March 25 – 28, 2021 | ONLINE
All Entry Passes on pre-sale at solely $29
Based by the Fabienne Colas Basis and supported by Canadian Heritage
Ottawa, March 4, 2021 – The Fabienne Colas Basis – creator of Canada’s largest Black Movie Competition: the Montreal Black Movie Competition, the massively well-liked Toronto Black Movie Competition in addition to the Halifax Black Movie Competition – is proud and thrilled to announce that the Black Movie Competition motion might be increasing to Ottawa, Canada’s capital and the metropolis that holds the nation’s third largest Black inhabitants.
The inaugural Ottawa Black Movie Competition (OBFF) will run totally on-line – March 25 – 28, 2021. The #OBFF21 All Entry passes are on pre-sale for solely $29 and could be bought on the competition’s Web site. The Competition’s program might be introduced subsequent week, on Wednesday, March 10.
“We’re humbled and past excited to be launching the Ottawa Black Movie Competition at such an vital time of our Historical past. OBFF is greater than a movie competition. It’s a motion! It’s the required platform for our native Black artists who, in any other case, would stay invisible,” – acknowledged Fabienne Colas, President and Founding father of the Black Movie Festivals in Montreal, Toronto, Halifax & Ottawa. “Our focus is to transcend consciousness with concrete actions to foster the inclusion of range on and off digital camera. In connecting genuine Black tales with viewers of all colors and ethnic origins, we acknowledge the variations that make us distinctive and we have a good time the shared values that deliver us collectively.”
Since their inception, the Montreal, Toronto, and Halifax Black Movie Festivals have been attracting Tons of of Hundreds of festivalgoers of all ages and from various origins. Previous editions have welcomed or paid tribute to celebrities reminiscent of Taraji P. Henson, Harry Belafonte, Danny Glover, Spike Lee, Alfre Woodard, Clement Virgo, Euzhan Palcy, Paul Haggis, Invoice Cobbs, Souleymane Cissé, Stedman Graham, Dany Laferrière, Dr. Mayann Francis, Regine Chassagne & Win Butler (Arcade Fireplace) and lots of extra.
The inaugural Ottawa Black Movie Competition, based by the Fabienne Colas Basis and Supported by Canadian Heritage will run from March 25 to twenty-eight, 2021. www.OttawaBlackFilm.com
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In regards to the Ottawa Black Movie Competition – #OBFF21
The Ottawa Black Movie Competition (OBFF) is about discovery and Inclusion. A not-for-profit organisation created by the Fabienne Colas Basis, OBFF needs to amplify extra Black voices and showcase essentially the most related Black movies from right here and overseas whereas creating an area to debate main cultural, social, and socio-economic points. The Ottawa Black Movie Competition is devoted to giving distinctive voices in cinema the chance to current audiences with new methods of wanting on the world. OBFF’s ambition is to encourage the event of the unbiased movie business and to advertise extra movies on the fact of Black individuals from across the Globe.
In regards to the Fabienne Colas Basis
The Fabienne Colas Basis is Canada’s largest Black cultural group. Created in 2005, the FCF is a not-for-profit creative group devoted to selling Variety and inclusion in Cinema, Artwork and Tradition in Canada and overseas. Together with Zaza manufacturing, the Fabienne Colas Basis can be the creator of 10 Festivals the extremely profitable Montreal Black Movie Competition, the massively well-liked Toronto Black Movie Competition, the Halifax Black Movie Competition in addition to the a number of different profitable Festivals in Canada, the USA, Haiti and Brazil. The Basis can be the creator of the FCF’s Being Black in Canada program, Canada’s largest incubator devoted to Black Filmmakers.
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