NFB HIRING ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR, DIRECTORS’ OFFICE

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has a new position available. Please see the posting attached or visit https://jobs.nfb.ca/jobs. ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR, DIRECTORS’ OFFICE Closing date of the competition: September 29, 2022 Location: Canada Salary Range: 09 – $54,340 to $66,770 Position Status: Continuous, Full-Time Contact: Michelle Campbell Conseillère, acquisition de talent et soutien| Advisor, Talent Acquisition […]

Black Public Media Open Call

Black Public Media’s Director of Programs, Denise Greene will be holding Q&A office hours for the next few days for any filmmaker who wants to apply for our 2022 Open Call! Calls will be scheduled for 10 minutes each on the following dates: Wed., Sept, 14th – 5pm-6:45pm Sat., Sept. 17th – 12pm-1:45pm Sign up […]

Netflix Africa Bosses Talk Originals

This is the post-apartheid dream of filmmaker Lionel Ngkane, that African filmmakers gain a voice in global cinema, and South Africa be a vehicle for that voice. Comrades like Lionel, Djibril Diop Mambety, Jean Pierre Bekolo, never had these possibilities, and worked within the contradictions and limitations forced upon them.  Revolution requires constantly looking forward, […]

Black Film Investment SWSX

Today nearly 80% of investment partners in venture capital (VC) are white men and only 3% of investment partners are Black. Black investors are making it their mission to create economic, social, and financial opportunities for Black entrepreneurs through their investment funds. SWSX Film Festival

Best New Streaming Channel Showcasing AfroDiaspora

Black World Cinema. Now called the Blacknuss Network, the organization itself has evolved from regular in-person events to a full-fledged alternative media syndicate, complete with an online streaming channel called blacknuss.tv. The channel goes outside the bounds of mainstream cinema, focusing on films that viewers likely haven’t seen. The organization has expanded behind the scenes […]

Young Black Filmmakers

Young Black filmmakers are invited to apply to take part in a national project that aims to address the issue of social integration of people from Black communities in their cities. By Toronto.com The program, called Being Black in Canada, is put on by Montreal-based Fabienne Colas Foundation and is open to Black filmmakers aged […]

An evening w/ cast and crew of THE PORTER

Join the Black Business Association of BC as we host select cast and crew from CBC’s new original series THE PORTER. Set in the early 1920s and inspired by real events, THE PORTER follows train porters Junior Massey and Zeke Garrett, and their friends and families, as a tragedy on the job sets them on […]

Black Film receives 3 million in funding

The new Festwave Institute furthers the Foundation’s commitment to developing Black talent in the Canadian film and television industry Montreal, February 9, 2022 – Today, the Fabienne Colas Foundation (FCF), with the support of the Government of Canada’s Ecosystem Fund, announced the launch of the Festwave Institute, a national, full-spectrum institute to support underserved Black […]