EVENTS
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October 2019
Adapting to a Career in TV Panel with RT (Director, Writer, Producer), Jasmin Mozaffari (Director,Writer) and Motion (Screenwriter, Playwright, Poet, Emcee)
Moderated by Nicole Mendez (Executive in Charge of Production at CBC)
*In Partnership with Reelworld Film Festival
August 2019
BIPOC TV & Film Summer Cocktail Mixer at Fifth Pubhouse.
May 2019
BIPOC TV & Film with InkCanada on FB Live! Interview with Writer Faisal Lutchmedial (Ransom)
May 2019
Asian Heritage Month Panel with Warren P. Sonoda (Director), Vivian Lin (Writer,Producer,Director), Samantha Wan (Actor,Filmmaker,Writer), Gabe Grey (Actor), and Melanie Le Phan (CBC Digital Production Executive).
Moderated by Romeo Candido (Writer,Director,Producer)
*In Partnership with Reelworld Film Festival
March 2019
FB Live interview with Diggstown Writer Andrew Burrows- Trotman
Moderated by Nathalie Younglai (Writer)
March 2019
Diggstown Panel with Creator & Showrunner Floyd Kane, Brandon Oakes (Actor), Dwain Murphy (Actor) and Priscilla White (Story Coordinator).
Moderated by Lindsay Addawoo (Writer, Director)
*In Partnership with ACTRA Toronto & ACTRA Diversity
March 2019
Q&A with Annmarie Morais (Writer - American Soul, How She Move, Ransom, Killjoys, Haven, Da Kink In My Hair).
Moderated by Marsha Greene (Co-Executive Producer, Mary Kills People)
*Hosted by Regent Park Film Festival.
February 2019
FB Live Q&A Interview with The Coroner - Nathalie YoungIai (Writer)
Moderated by Vivian Lin (Writer).
February 2019
IG Live interview with The Coroner - Seneca Aaron (Writer) and Sherren Lee (Director)
February 2019
IG Live interview with The Coroner - Kiley May (Actor) and Winnie Jong (Director)
January 2019
FB Live interview with The Coroner - Motion (Writer)
January 2019
Q&A with Anthony Q. Farrell (Writer - The Office, Little Mosque on the Prairie, The Thundermans. Creator/Showrunner - The Secret Life of Boys)
Moderated by JP Larocque (Writer, Slasher)
*Hosted by Regent Park Film Festival.
April 2018
Q & A with Cory Bowles (Multidisciplinary artist/Actor/Director/Writer - Black Cop, Trailer Park Boys, Little Dog, Studio Black, The Scavengers, Heart of Rhyme, Anatomy of Assistance).
*In partnership with ACTRA Toronto
February 2018
Q & A with Director Sharon Lewis (Brown Girl Begins)
Moderated by JP Larocque (Writer, Slasher)
*Special thank you to the BBPA.
February 2018
Black Panther Opening Weekend, the BBPA hosts 350 youth and adults for a special
screening of Black Panther at Cineplex Yorkdale. BIPOC TV & Film partnered with the
BBPA to host this event and provides the youth in attendance with first opportunity to
sign up for a series of BIPOC workshops.
Representing BIPOC TV&FILM at the event Nathalie Younglai & Shonna Foster
Through our partnerships with ACTRA Diversity and Angelica Lisk-Hann, BIPOC TV & FILM gifted tickets to December's ACTRA AWARDS to one very special youth, Jameila P. and her Mother. The two were moved to tears at the opportunity to partake in this experience.
December 2017
Workshop with Ben Joseph (Writer - Rolie Polie Olie, Hotel Transylvania: The Series)
and Jiro C. Okada (Emmy-nominated writer, producer and executive story editor
for Justin Time, and True and the Rainbow Kingdom).
December 2017
BIPOC TV & Film Winter Celebration Potluck and Member Screening at Midnight Print
Studios.
December 2017
Q & A with Tracey Deer (Director/Creator/Writer - Mohawk Girls, Club Native).
*In partnership with Regent Park Film Festival.
May 2017
Q & A with Marsha Greene (Writer – Mary Kills People, Ten Days In the Valley)
*In partnership with Deluxe Studios Toronto
March 2017
BIPOC hosts an International Women's Day Dinner for Women of Colour Creatives.
March 2017
Q & A with Romeo Candido (Director - Second Jen, Prison Dancer)
*In partnership with Deluxe Studios Toronto
August 2016
Q & A with Mohamad El Masri (Development – Reality Distortion Field)
May 2016
Q & A with Lexi Alexander (Director - Supergirl, American Gothic, Taken, Punisher)
December 2015
BIPOC Hosts Winter Celebration Potluck and Member Screening at Midnight Print
Studios.
November 2015
Q & A with Diane Boehme (Creator - Blood & Water)
September 2015
Networking and Q & A with Wendy Calhoun (Co-Executive Producer/Writer – Empire,
Nashville, Justified, Revenge)
May 2015
Q & A with Nicole Mendes (Production Executive - Drama – CBC)
April 2015
Creatives of Colour Dinner with Career Consultant Carole Kirschner (CBS & WGA
Program Director, Entertainment Career Coach, Author, Speaker)
March 2015
Q & A with Jensenne Roculan (Development Executive – Copperheart Entertainment)
August 2014
Creatives of Colour Dinner & Animation talk with Ben Joseph (Writer - How to Be Indie, Caillou, Babar and the Adventures of Badou, My Babysitter is a Vampire, Hotel Transylvania, Annedroids and Doozers )
March 2013
Q & A with Jennifer Holness (Writer-Producer, She’s the Mayor, Home Again)
March 2013
BIPOC hosts Fundraiser to send 30 youth from Regent Park’s Focus initiative to a
screening of Home Again by Jennifer Holness & Sudz Sutherland.
December 2012
Q & A with Floyd Kane (Writer – Continuum)