Toronto
The Confronting Anti-Black Racism Advisory Committee established by City Council helps to further advance the objectives of the Toronto Action Plan to Confronting Anti-Black Racism. You can follow the issues and priorities the Advisory Committee will address on the Toronto City Council and Committees Meetings, Agendas and Minutes web page. Below are brief biographies for […]
UWGT and the Federation of Black Canadians host Black Leadership and Recognition Breakfast Event awards to honour business, community and youth leaders in the GTA TORONTO, Feb. 2, 2024 /CNW/ – United Way Greater Toronto and the Federation of Black Canadians kicked off Black History Month with an awards ceremony at the annual […]
‘We make music that moves us’: Black Pumas aren’t taking success for granted Toronto Star Source link
Charles Officer, an award-winning Canadian filmmaker, producer and writer whose work spanned features, documentary and television, and often centred Black voices and characters, died at his home in Toronto on Friday. Officer, who was 48, passed away after a long illness, according to his business partner at CaneSuger Filmworks, Jake Yanowski. Yanowski remembered his long-time creative collaborator […]
Black Life: Untold Stories Toronto International Film Festival Source link
Meaning “nourishing” in Latin, Alma warms the soul. Chef Anna Chen describes her comforting cuisine as “definitely Asian,” but diners sense her global upbringing throughout the menu. Guests can go from parmesan tapioca fritters to szechuan lamb belly to coconut flan all in one sitting. Alma’s Chinese char siu pork is grilled in the style […]
“If you are on the sensitive side, please take your Kleenex out,” the Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland warned the audience Tuesday at the Toronto International Film Festival. Holland was trying to prepare us for her latest, “Green Border,” a great howl of a movie about the crisis at the border between Poland and Belarus. There, […]
“Woman of the Hour” was an exercise in combining the right people in what Miri Yoon — one of several producers on the project along with Kendrick — likened to a kind of “math” problem. Kendrick, who was initially attached only to star, “really drove us over the line,” said Yoon, who recently worked on […]
Receive free Film updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Film news every morning. It’s often said that the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) attracts an especially enthusiastic hometown crowd. A festival trailer shown before screenings features characters in faux genre movies turning to face the camera and praise […]
Comment on this storyComment TORONTO — At one point during the concert documentary “Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero,” which premiered late Saturday night at the Toronto International Film Festival, an audience member in a sleek black suit, towering boots and waist-length black hair got up to dance while everyone around him screamed in approval.