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

One of the Greatest Music Movies

50 years later… ‘Passing Through’ gets its due. Mighty, weighty, fulfilling, perfect and Amazing. The soundtrack by Horace Tapscott, I get chills thinking of it. This film is the most Afrofuturist, a tale creative free black music, grounded in the everyday struggle of the exploited black worker/musician, a musical Battle of Algiers, a font of […]

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 […]

Black filmmakers who have changed Hollywood in the last century

It took decades for Black directors to break into the industry and alter how Hollywood operated behind and in front of the camera and how it viewed Black content. Oscar Micheaux led the charge, launching his own studio in 1919. Directors such as Melvin van Peebles and Gordon Parks put Black narratives at the forefront […]

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 […]