Reel images for real communities
What is our relationship to our neighbourhood, community and land? This program of shorts explores hidden personal histories from New Orleans to strong voices in Regent Park reach deep inside shaking up the way we are taught to accept the world around us.
Program Rating: PG13
Talkback with Last Ride Through Regent director Dwayne Sybbliss, moderated by Lisa Smart featuring the film 's subjects Septembre Anderson, and Liban Abokor.
JUST DON’T DO IT. An unapologetic confrontation of cultural appropriation and everything that’s wrong with hipsters in headdresses.
Amanda Strong is an award-winning filmmaker, media artist and stop-motion director currently based out of the unceded Coast Salish territory also known as Vancouver.
Andy, a young Métis woman, encounters sweet grass for the first time.
Jessie Short is a curator, writer, and multi-disciplinary artist and emerging filmmaker whose work involves memory, multi-faceted existence, Métis history and visual culture.
A reflection on the appearance and disappearance of blurred images of Indigenous people along the stream of the Mapocho River in Chile.
Araya Carrión is a collective from Chile who works within an interdisciplinary framework of art as a political and action-based practice that can shape and comment on current political realities.
Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez, a Black man, won unprecedented rights for formerly enslaved Black Americans, a hundred years before the civil rights movement in the 1960’s. His story is uncovered by his grandson, who struggles to understand a childhood where white supremacy was a family value.
Maya Annik Bedward is a Jamaican-Québecoise filmmaker based in Toronto. In 2005, she founded Third Culture Media.
Powerful documentation of the sit-in conducted by Black Lives Matter Toronto during the 2016 Toronto Pride Parade. BLMTO demand that Pride address anti-Black racism in the festival.
Michael Toledano is a multimedia journalist and documentary filmmaker based in Toronto. In 2016 and 2017 he produced a series of short documentaries on Black Lives Matter Toronto.
Last Ride Through Regent tackles the current gentrification happening to the community of Regent Park and the effects it has on Black bodies and spaces.
Dwayne Sybbliss is a self-taught photographer and filmmaker. His work excavates issues around community, masculinity and Black bodies. Last Ride Through Regent is his first short film.
