B.C. has a thriving film industry, but you would never know it from the list of finalists, who are mostly from Toronto and Montreal.
A movie inspired by Simon Fraser University English professor David Chariandy’s second novel won the most screen awards of any film.
What seems like a simple request feels devastating as if unfolds on the screen, watching the mother’s face fall even as she agrees.
Arts for Canadians Tomorrow Society created Toronto Spark to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
Arts for Canadians Tomorrow Society is grateful to be held on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of many nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, that is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. We acknowledge our privilege to be gathered on this land, and commit to work with and be respectful to the Indigenous peoples whose arts and stories inspire us to bring communities together.
