The ninth annual Canadian Screen Awards held their final night’s gala on Thursday, awarding the big prizes in film and television. Tracey Deer’s Oka-inspired
Beans won both the John Dunning best first feature film award and best motion picture. This comes after her TIFF emerging talent award last year.
Indigenous zombie feature
Blood Quantum, which was leading with 10 nominations, won seven awards, including for Montreal-based Mi’kmaq writer-director Jeff Barnaby and best lead actor for Michael Greyeyes. Click here to watch our interview with the cast of
Blood Quantum.
Deepa Mehta won best director for her film
Funny Boy. Her movie was initially submitted to the Oscars for best international film but was pulled out because it didn’t meet the foreign language requirements. The movie also won best adapted screenplay, which was earned by Mehta and author Shyam Selvadurai, and music for composer Howard Shore.
Why âKarensâ Are a Threat to Racial Progress
From Ida B. Wells to Emmett Till to the âKarensâ of today, the trope of white women in danger has been used to harm Black people.
I have white women in my life whom I like and love but, for some white women, a predatory element lingers just under the surface of their smiling faces. Because in many ways, white womanhood is the secret weapon in the perpetuation of white supremacy: When a white woman feels âunsafeââparticularly in situations that involve a Black woman conscious of an injustice or a Black male simply existingâwhatever solution that follows cannot be questioned. Â
Kelly Fyffe-Marshall makes a big impact with the short Black Bodies
Kelly Fyffe-Marshall makes a big impact with the short Black Bodies
The Brampton-based director makes movies to shed light on unsung stories By Kelsey Adams
Apr 15, 2021
Kelly Fyffe-Marshall calls herself an “impact filmmaker” because her short films and upcoming debut feature are created with the purpose of shedding light on unsung stories. “Make ripples where you are” is the advice that the Brampton-based writer and director gives to anyone who asks for guidance.
Her short films Haven, Marathon, Black White Blue and Black Bodies have screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, SXSW and Sundance, and tackle childhood sexual assault, police brutality and anti-Black racism through a visceral but often poetic lens.
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The Parker Andersons cast poses for a behind the scenes photo.
A blended family comedy series about a Black man marrying a white woman produced by a conservative, Mormon television studio sounds like a recipe for drama. And there was plenty of that behind the scenes on The Parker Andersons and Amelia Parker, two interconnected sitcoms about a chocolate-and-vanilla Brady Bunch.
The show is produced by Canada’s Marblemedia and Utah’s BYUtv. The latter is the television arm of Brigham Young University, a college sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Here’s a quick history lesson: Brigham Young was a Mormon leader who deemed Black skin a curse and Black-white intermarriage so sinful that the only way to cleanse the offence was with a beheading.