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TORONTO - When Jamaican-born filmmaker Jennifer Holness was growing up in Toronto, she says she never felt she had the kind of face that could "launch a thousand ships."
TORONTO - When Jamaican-born filmmaker Jennifer Holness was growing up in Toronto, she says she never felt she had the kind of face that could "launch a
Producer-Director Jennifer Holness’ ‘Subjects of Desire’ Opens Doors to New Doc Projects (EXCLUSIVE) Variety 7 hrs ago Known as a producer of award-winning Canadian documentary and narrative films, a showrunner and, more recently, as the cofounder of Canada’s newly minted Black Screen Office, Jennifer Holness is chatting up her feature-doc directorial debut, “Subjects of Desire,” this week at Hot Docs where it screens in Special Presentations. In an interview with Variety before her industry conference Masterclass (now available on-demand to festival attendees), Holness confirm...
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. The Black Screen Office was formed last year with a $100,000 pledge from Telefilm Canada, and support from the Bell Fund, as part of a plan to address systemic racism in Canada's film indus...
by The Canadian Press 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 d...