(Montreal – Might 1st, 2025) – The Fabienne Colas Basis’s Being Black in Canada program – Canada’s largest incubator devoted to Black Filmmakers – is thrilled to be again with a name for functions for its 2024 version. Due to the assist of Netflix, the Nationwide Financial institution, Telefilm Canada, and Canada Council for the Arts and varied native companions, the Program will assist as much as 21 new younger, promising Black filmmakers in Montreal, Toronto, Halifax, Ottawa, Calgary, and Vancouver.
This system’s eligibility standards and software type can be found HERE. Candidates have till Might 25, 2025 to use and solely these chosen will likely be contacted
As a part of the BEING BLACK IN CANADA program, rising filmmakers will handle the difficulty of social integration of individuals from Black communities of their metropolis by movie. The members will likely be guided by the various steps in audiovisual manufacturing (screenwriting, directing, enhancing, post-production, and many others.), and can create a documentary quick (from 8 to 10 minutes). This course of will likely be carried out beneath the skilled tutelage of trade professionals with skilled gear. Their last work will likely be screened as a World Premieres in 2026 on the Toronto Black Movie Competition, adopted by the Halifax Black Movie Competition, the Montreal Worldwide Black Movie Competition in addition to the Black Movie Festivals in Ottawa, Calgary, and Vancouver.
The Fabienne Colas Basis’s BEING BLACK IN CANADA represents Canada’s largest incubator devoted to rising Black Filmmakers. As a part of the Fabienne Colas Basis’s Youth and Variety Initiative, the FCF’s Being Black in Canada program was created to make up for the blatant lack of range and the shortage of Black Folks in entrance and behind the digicam in Canada. Based in 2012, with the primary cohort launched in 2014, the Program offers 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 Variety on our screens that sadly showcase content material that’s too white for a very numerous society.
Get to know the 2024 BEING BLACK IN CANADA cohort right here
Watch the FCF’S Being Black in Canada 2022 movies on-line on CBC GEM (Broadcast in 2024)
In regards to the Fabienne Colas Basis
The Fabienne Colas Basis (FCF) is a not-for-profit cultural group devoted to constructing bridges and advancing schooling by the humanities in addition to to assist the creation, manufacturing, promotion and dissemination of cinema, the humanities and tradition in Canada and elsewhere. To meet its mission, the Basis put collectively 12 festivals and packages to interrupt boundaries, rejoice range, foster togetherness, understanding and inclusion. Since its inception in 2005, its initiatives/festivals have showcased and supported over 5,000 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. www.fondationfabiennecolas.org
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Talar Adam: press@torontoblackfilm.com