Festivals
Cinema
The Fabienne Colas Foundation is at the origin of numerous film festivals across Canada. These festivals are dedicated to promoting diversity and inclusion in film, both in front of and behind the camera, by highlighting films about the realities of Black people around the world.
Montreal International Black Film Festival
Created in 2005, the Montreal International Black Film Festival is a vibrant, innovative, and daring festival that fosters the development of the independent film industry and highlights more films about the realities of Black people around the world.
Toronto Black Film Festival
Created in 2013, the Toronto Black Film Festival is the largest Black History Month celebration in Canada. Cool, international, independent, and politically incorrect, the festival presents the most striking and powerful Black films.
Halifax Black Film Festival
Established in 2017, the Halifax Black Film Festival is the third Black Film Festival in Canada. It celebrates African Heritage Month in Nova Scotia, home of Canada’s oldest Black population.
Ottawa Black Film Festival
Created in 2021, the Ottawa Black Film Festival gives unique voices the opportunity to present the public with new ways of looking at the world in its diversity.
Calgary Black Film Festival
Created in 2021, the Calgary Black Film Festival gives unique voices the opportunity to present the public with new ways of looking at the world.
Vancouver International Black Film Festival
Created in 2021, the Vancouver International Black Film Festival showcases the most relevant Black films from here and abroad while creating a space to debate major cultural, social and socio-economic issues. This festival is about discovery and inclusion.
Salvador Black Film Festival
Created in 2019, the Salvador Black Film Festival in Bahia, Brazil, is the first of its kind in the city that has the country’s largest Black population. The festival was founded by Zaza Production in collaboration with Giros Filmes.
Quebec Film Festival in Haiti
The Quebec Film Festival in Haiti mission is to bring Quebec and Haiti closer together culturally by introducing the people of Haiti to the richness of Quebec cinema through free screenings and panels.
