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Last Updated May 3, 2021 at 4:39 pm ADT
TORONTO The newly formed Black Screen Office says consultations begin this month on efforts to build a “best practices” guide for telling the stories of underrepresented communities.
The office says “Being Seen: A Directive for Authentic and Inclusive Content” will seek national input on the representation of “Black, people of colour, LGBTQ2+ and persons with disabilities” in film and television.
The goal is to understand how underrepresented communities “want to be seen and represented and then provide a set of directives to the industry.”
Interviews will be conducted through virtual focus groups and one-on-one conversations in English and French through September. Participants will be focused on industry representatives and members of the general public who belong to underrepresented communities.
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Let’s not lie to ourselves: There is something distinctly sad about celebrating the second virtual-only National Canadian Film Day.
When Reel Canada, the non-profit organization behind NCFD, was forced to go digital for its seventh edition last spring instead of the 1,000 real-deal screenings it had planned, I was expecting the move to strictly be a one-off. Yet here we are, celebrating the eighth annual NCFD April 21 once again in a virtual fashion, and with no firm guarantee that next year will be any different.
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TORONTO The Toronto Black Film Festival is hosting a panel discussion series with a title that speaks to a pervasive problem in the industry: Show Me the Money.
Amid a racial reckoning sparked by the police killing of George Floyd last May, it seems awareness is heightened, and arts organizations are paying attention to systemic racism and barriers facing Black creators in Canada’s film and TV industry, says festival president and founder Fabienne Colas.
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