PAST EVENTS
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February 2020
Working with the CBC
Want to know what the CBC needs from you? This informational panel, mixer and networking night will answer all your questions.
January 2020
BIPOC TV & Film presents "The Script Coordinators Panel"
Jessica Meya ( Holly Hobbie, creator of Working The Scene in Colour). Justin Rawana (Mary Kills People, The Next step, Dhaliwal '15), Amber-Sekowan Daniels (The Trickster), Keavy Lynch (The Beaverton, Coroner). Moderated by Nathalie Younghali ( Coroner, Bellevue, 16 Hudson)
In Partnership with Regent Park Film Festival and Artscape
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
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
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
IG Live Interview
Interview with The Coroner - Kiley May (Actor) and Winnie Jong (Director)
December 2017, 2015
BIPOC TV & Film Winter Celebration Potluck
BIPOC TV & Film Winter Celebration Potluck and Member Screening at Midnight Print
Studios.
March 2017
BIPOC Woman's Day Dinner
BIPOC hosts an International Women's Day Dinner for Women of Colour Creatives.
May 2016
Q & A with Lexi Alexander
Q & A with Lexi Alexander (Director - Supergirl, American Gothic, Taken, Punisher)
September 2015
Networking and Q & A with Wendy Calhoun
Networking and Q & A with Wendy Calhoun (Co-Executive Producer/Writer – Empire,
Nashville, Justified, Revenge)
March 2015
Q & A with Jensenne Roculan
Q & A with Jensenne Roculan (Development Executive – Copperheart Entertainment)
March 2013
BICPOC Fundraiser
BIPOC hosts Fundraiser to send 30 youth from Regent Park’s Focus initiative to a screening of Home Again by Jennifer Holness & Sudz Sutherland.
March 2020
Cinematography Workshop With Gayle Ye
Director of Photography Gayle Ye hosts a weekend workshop for aspiring and emerging cinematographers, camera ops and gaffers who identity as BIPOC.
January 2020
BIPOC TV & Film presents "Inside The Coroner Writing Room"
Morwyn Brebner (Showrunner), Noelle Carbone (Co-Executive Producer), Seneca Aaron (Co-Producer), Shannon Masters (Co-Producer), Nathalie Younglai (Co-Producer), Motion (Executive Story Editor) In Partnership with The Writers Guild of Canada
August 2019
BIPOC TV & Film Summer Cocktail Mixer
At Fifth Pubhouse
March 2019
FB Live interview
With Diggstown Writer Andrew Burrows- Trotman
Moderated by Nathalie Younglai (Writer)
February 2019
FB Live Q&A
Interview with The Coroner - Nathalie YoungIai (Writer)
Moderated by Vivian Lin (Writer).
September 2018
Post TIFF Mixer & Trivia Night
Wind down from TIFF 2018 with BIPOC TV & Film at our Post TIFF Mixer & Trivia Night.
February 2018
Black Panther Opening Weekend
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
Q & A with Tracey Deer
Q & A with Tracey Deer (Director/Creator/Writer - Mohawk Girls, Club Native).
*In partnership with Regent Park Film Festival.
March 2017
Q & A with Romeo Candido
Q & A with Romeo Candido (Director - Second Jen, Prison Dancer)
*In partnership with Deluxe Studios Toronto
February 2017
Networking Mixer with Cole Bastedo
Networking mixer with Cole Bastedo Writer – (Next Step, Degrassi, Little Mosque on the Prairiee)
August 2014
Creatives of Colour Dinner and Animation Talk
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 )
December 2012
Q & A with Floyd Kane
Q & A with Floyd Kane (Writer – Continuum)
February 2020
BIPOC TV & Film presents "Making Black History Now"
Kelly Fyffe-Marshall (Writer, Director, Activist) (Haven (SXSW 2018) Black Bodies, and Summer of the Gun) R.T. Thorne (Filmmaker) Karen Chapman (Filmmaker) Sasha Leigh Henry (Producer) Tamar Bird (Producer)
In Partnership with Regent Park Film Festival
December 2019
BIPOC TV & Film with POV 3rd Street "How to Be A Good Assistant Panel"
With Sarah Yacobi Harris, (Executive Assistant CBC Unscripted), Nancy Yeboah(Office P.A/Sound Assistant), Eduardo Lemus (Media Manager, Radke Films) and Jamal Alexander (Set Production Assistant) Moderated by Gillian Mueller (Writer) *In Partnership with POV 3rd Street
May 2019
BIPOC TV & Film with InkCanada interview with Writer-Director Faisal Lutchmedial
Interview with Writer Faisal Lutchmedial (Ransom).
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
February 2019
IG Live Interview
Interview with The Coroner - Seneca Aaron (Writer) and Sherren Lee (Director)
January 2019
FB Live Interview
Interview with The Coroner - Motion (Writer)
April 2018
Q&A with Cory Bowles
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
December 2017
Workshop with Ben Joseph & Jiro C. Okada
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).
May 2017
Q & A with Marsha Greene
Q & A with Marsha Greene (Writer – Mary Kills People, Ten Days In the Valley)
*In partnership with Deluxe Studios Toronto
August 2016
Q & A with Mohamad El Masri
Q & A with Mohamad El Masri (Development – Reality Distortion Field)
November 2015
Q & A with Diane Boehme
Q & A with Diane Boehme (Creator - Blood & Water)
April 2015
Creatives of Colour Dinner
Creatives of Colour Dinner with Career Consultant Carole Kirschner (CBS & WGA Program Director, Entertainment Career Coach, Author, Speaker)
March 2013
Q & A with Jennifer Holness
Q & A with Jennifer Holness (Writer-Producer, She’s the Mayor, Home Again)