2022 Vancouver Black Independent Film Festival

Afro Pics Solidarity & Virtue

Expired January 1, 2023 7:00 AM
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Entrepreneurs Of Colour:

Sami haraketi is a 27 years old Tunisian filmmaker has a bachelor degree in multimedia communication and master degree in data science. Based in Lisbon since 2019, working as a Content Manager in Building Global Innovators.

Free To Be Free:

Award winning actor and filmmaker Damien D. Smith is a lifelong storyteller. With more than 15 years of experience in theatre, television, and film, Smith is driven by both a responsibility to shed light on injustice and oppression and a deep-rooted passion for community, faith, and social activism.Filmmaker Damien D. Smith is an award-winning writer/director and the founder and Creative Director for 4910 Rosalie Productions and Co-Founder of Detangled.

Sekhmet:

My name is Steeve SOMBO, I write and direct films since for years now, mostly drama and thriller. I started to learn filmmaking in Paris then I continued my training in London a few years later. My motto is :"Take inspiration from reality to inspire reality"

The Bed

Thalia is a London-based writer/director with an interest in queer film, horror, dark comedy, and the absurd. She originally went to Oxford and studied French and German literature and language. During her year abroad she worked in film production companies in Paris (Federation Entertainment) and Berlin (One Two Films). In her last year at university, she made her first short film, ‘unlucky.’, a dark comedy horror about a job interview that goes horribly wrong. Thalia has recently completed an MA in Directing Fiction at Goldsmith’s University. After graduating, she plans to continue writing and directing films and also get a qualification in intimacy coordinating.

An Extra Day In Prague: Jacob Ramsay is an American director based in Prague, Czech Republic. He blends documentary and fiction filmmaking techniques, collaborating with non-actors, whose characters' lives run parallel to their own. His films meditate on themes of family, often focusing on transitional moments when a character must leave something, or someone, behind. Jacob holds an MFA in Film Directing from Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) and a BA in Film Studies from Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania (USA).

Motion-The Measure Of Time: Currently completing her final year of a BA degree in Film, Marva Gregorio De Souza (Pixie) made her first short film independently in 2015 and has been making them with a passion and several award nominations ever since.

 

Black Power Is Green power: Etienne HUSSON

I discovered cinema and audiovisual through image education devices, workshops, and options (in middle school and high school). At university, in parallel with my studies in Social Anthropology (where I went until obtaining my Master 2), I started making films. Today, whether through documentary, animation, or live action fiction, I aspire that my productions have both a dreamlike dimension and both an involvement in the real.

Eating Papaw On The Seashore: Rae Wiltshire

I’m a playwright, theatre director, journalist, screenwriter and a filmmaker. I am from Georgetown, Guyana. Filmmaking is not practiced often in our country and we do not have the infrastructural development for filmmakers. But I am a tenacious person. I managed to shoot my first short film with a crew, Eating Papaw on the Seashore. The film was selected to be screened in several film festivals, including California, Guyana, Kenya and Canada. This is an accomplishment for myself, especially since the support is not always available to Guyanese filmmakers. My journey in filmmaking started when I was 18. I had read books on film and consumed videos via Youtube. It is my hope to grow the local filmmaking industry in Guyana. Although not trained via a university, I believe studying literature and linguistics has helped to shape my understanding of characters and stories.

A psychiatrist returns to work after a mental breakdown with a curious objective in mind.

  • Year
    2022
  • Runtime
    8:01
  • Language
    French
  • Country
    France
  • Premiere
    Canada
  • Rating
    PG-13
  • Director
    Steeve Sombo
  • Screenwriter
    Steeve Sombo
  • Producer
    Aïssata Sy
  • Cast
    Tella Kpomahou, Jonathan Passot
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