Three short films will be featured within the hour:
Remember Africville (35 mins)
This short film depicts Africville, a small black settlement that lay within the city limits of Halifax. In the 1960s, the families there were uprooted and their homes demolished in the name of urban renewal and integration. More than 20 years later, the site of the community of Africville is a stark, under-utilized park. Former residents, their descendants and some of the decision-makers speak out and, with the help of archival photographs and films, tell the story of that painful relocation.
nfb.ca/film/remember_africville
Colour of Beauty (16 mins)
Renee Thompson is trying to make it as a top fashion model in New York. She's got the looks, the walk and the drive. But she’s a black model in a world where white women represent the standard of beauty. Agencies rarely hire black models. And when they do, they want them to look “like white girls dipped in chocolate.”
nfb.ca/film/colour_of_beauty
Black Soul (10 mins)
Martine Chartrand’s animated short dives into the heart of black culture with an exhilarating trip though history. Watch as a young boy traces his roots through the stories his grandmother shares with him about the events that shaped their cultural heritage.
nfb.ca/film/black_soul
Everyone: FREE
Sunday, February 9, 2014
2:30PM – 3:30PM
Location, Studio Theatre, York Quay Centre, 235 Queens Quay West, Toronto, ON
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