Ahead of Sunday’s Canadian Screen Awards, The Globe and Mail presents the changemakers whose creativity, influence and sheer will are reshaping the country’s film industry for the better
, in addition to distributing arguably the country’s biggest critical hit of 2021, Tracey Deer’s4. Nathalie Younglai, BIPOC TV & FilmTen years ago, Nathalie Younglai was a fresh television writer looking for a mentor of colour, and finding few options.
Question: Do you have any idea who was the chair of the Canada Council of the Arts in 2019? Probably not, but most in the industry certainly knows thathas the job now, such is the journalist/film programmer/producer’s high-wattage profile. Canada’s leading advocate for Indigenous storytellers, Wente has proven his arts bona fides across his 11 years with TIFF as a programmer and two decades as a columnist on CBC Radio.
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