THE FILMS
BLACK COP (91 mins.)
A black police officer is pushed to the edge, taking out his frustrations on the privileged community he’s sworn to protect.
Cory Bowles is a multidisciplinary artist from Nova Scotia. His credits include TRAILER PARK BOYS (14-18), STUDIO BLACK! (15-16), LITTLE DOG (18-19), DIGGSTOWN (19-20) PRETTY HARD CASES (21), NURSES (20), and KINGS OF NAPA (21) His first feature, BLACK COP (17), premiered at TIFF and went on to earn a number of awards including the John Dunning Discovery Award at the Canadian Screen Awards. In 2018, he was nominated for the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award.
Written & Directed by Cory Bowles
GENERATIONS (22 mins.)
GENERATIONS explores the lives of black Nova Scotians, through the eyes of community elders, youth and families.
Lance Sampson, aka Aquakultre, is an uncommonly versatile singer, rapper, composer and storyteller, born and raised in the small community of Uniacke Square in Halifax. He is a Polaris Prize-nominated, and Prism Prize-winning artist who came to national prominence in 2018 when he won CBC’s Searchlight competition with a recording of his song “Sure.” His latest project, GENERATIONS, gives voice to African Nova Scotian communities and explores the histories, traditions and significant experiences of those living there.
Written & Directed by Lance Sampson
A WALK IN THE SUN (9 mins.)
An interracial couple sees the struggle of their story mirrored in a painting as they try to find their way together across their racial divide.
Nikki Martin (Writer) and Tobi Martin Flemming (Director) are a dynamic creative team of sisters. Their short film, A WALK IN THE SUN premiered at the Atlantic International Film Festival in 2022. Nikki’s first fictional novel A Momentary Darkness, was released in 2018, and its follow-up, the second in the series, The Beginning’s End in June 2021.
Directed by Tobi Martin Flemming
Written by: Nikki Martin
MEET THE CURATOR
Juanita Peters is known by many people, as many things. She is an actor, film and stage director, and playwright.
As a film writer and director she has given us: I Made a Vow, Hannah’s Story, Africville; Can’t Stop Now, and 8:37 Rebirth which has won multiple awards in Canada, New York, London and Paris. Juanita Peters directed two seasons of the Film Nova Scotia Award winning dramatic series Studio Black and the multi–award winning television series DIGGSTOWN. As a playwright she has given us: The San Family, The Mother Club, I M Possible and The Green Book.
Juanita is a founding member of Women In Film and Television Atlantic and Founding member of Atlantic Canada’s newest multicultural festival, Nova-MultiFest. She is a member of Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre, Canadian Actors Equity, Actra and the Directors Guild of Canada. She is also a board member of The Robert Pope Foundation, Matchstick Theatre and Women In The Directors Chair National.
Named the 2023 Portia White Prize Winner by Creative Arts NS and the 2022 Woman of the Year by the union representing 28,000 professional actors across the country, ACTRA. Juanita Peters is also a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee medal and the King Charles III Coronation Medal.
In addition to this Juanita Peters is the Executive Director of the Africville Museum where she continues telling the stories of one of Canada’s most significant historical black communities.
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