Halifax Black Film Festival Feb 28-Mar 1 Cineplex Park Lane 5657 Spring Garden Road and Halifax Central Library, 5440 Spring Garden Road It may only be marking its fourth year, but the Halifax Black Film Festival has high expectations. “We show the Black reality from around the globe. It allows us to celebrate shared values,” […]
Halifax Black Film Festival
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A universal event
Halifax Black Film Festival March 2-4 The Rape of Recy Taylor screening Friday March 2, The Spatz Theatre, 1855 Trollope Street, 6pm $20 halifaxblackfilm.com “Recy Taylor spoke up and called what happened to her what it was—she was not embarrassed by it, she was not ashamed, she was horrified,” says the documentary filmmaker Nancy Buirski. […]
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Inaugural Halifax Black Film Festival honours iconic women
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise screening and movie talk Saturday, March 4, 7pm Spatz Theatre, 1855 Trollope Street $25 “This is a necessary festival for diversity on screen,” says Fabienne Colas, the founder and president of the inaugural Halifax Black Film Festival. “It gives a voice to people who wouldn’t have a voice otherwise.” […]