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Written by: Kanika Ambrose
Genre: TYA
Length: 70 min.
It is 1858 on a Virginian tobacco plantation. Deep in a forest, a young Black girl named Phoebe sits in the hollow of a tree, a notebook in her pocket and a harrowing choice ahead. Truth is adapted from the Governor General’s Award-winning novel The Gospel Truth and tells the...
Written by: Marcia Johnson
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Historical
Length: 90 min.
Serving Elizabeth is inspired by an episode of the first season of the Netflix series The Crown. This beautiful depiction of the life of the current queen of England was, at the time, the most expensive series that Netflix had ever produced. Marcia Johnson was impressed that the production traveled...
Written by: Djanet Sears
Genre: Drama, Historical
Length: 175 min.
“The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God is a remarkable love, an incredible heist, an extraordinary funeral, and an impassioned search for answers to the profound mysteries of being alive. A beautiful and deeply moving story set in present-day Negro Creek, a 200-year-old Black community in Western Ontario....
Written by: d'bi.young anitafrika
Genre: Black Theatre
“An Afro-futurist dub-opera set in Ontario, Bleeders is the culminating play in d’bi.young anitafrika’s new triptych, The Orisha Trilogy. The story takes place way into the future: the Pickering Nuclear Plant has exploded, and a group of Black women form a small council. How, in the midst of government oppression,...
Written by: Audrey Dwyer
Genre: Adaptation, Comedy, Satire
Length: 120 min.
“Julie, a young Afro-Canadian screenwriter, is retelling To Kill a Mockingbird. This time the story will be told from the perspective of… a Black woman. Calpurnia. The Finch family’s maid. In pursuit of perspective to cure her writer’s block, Julie upturns an important family dinner party. Hilarity and tension ensue...
Written by: Andrea Scott
Genre: Black Theatre, Drama, Historical, TYA
Length: 60 min.
“Controlled Damage explores the life of Canadian civil rights icon Viola Desmond and how her act of bravery in a Nova Scotia movie theatre in 1946 started a ripple effect that is still felt today. An ordinary woman forced to be extraordinary by an unyielding and racist world, Desmond never...