With documentary financing tightening, Canadian filmmakers are increasingly turning to wealthy benefactors to bridge the gap. What will this mean for creative autonomy, accountability, and the art form’s long-term health?
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Jennifer Holness to receive the Don Haig Award at Hot Docs. The Black Zombie executive producer and #WhileBlack director wins in recognition of her work mentoring emerging talent.
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In #WhileBlack, Darnella Frazier and Diamond Reynolds, who captured the killings of George Floyd and Philando Castile, tell about the emotional toll behind viral videos that shaped contemporary history.
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The Toronto International Film Festival previewed its upcoming TIFF market in a pre-festival event that highlighted Canadian content.
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Ontario documentary filmmakers discuss the challenges of industry funding, distribution and creation post-COVID.
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To Kill a Tiger and BLK: An Origin Story lead 2023 Canadian Screen Awards winners for Documentary, Factual, and Non-Fiction categories.
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Launched in 2022, Being Seen is an industry guide from the Black Screen Office to facilitate authentic storytelling in Canada's screen sector.
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Subjects of Desire, Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair, and Ain't No Time for Women are the documentaries on Canada's Top Ten lists for 2021.
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Jennifer Holness's Subjects of Desire celebrates Blackness while exploring how the beauty industry shapes images of Black women.
Keep ReadingWhen Greg Tourino, a science librarian at Simon Fraser University and former graduate cinema student was asked in BCLiving Magazine about his passion for Black Canadian film, his answer could stand for
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