Toronto: Black Canadian Creators Launch Film Development Fund Amid Industry Reckoning
With the Canadian film and TV industry at a crossroads amid the Black Lives Matters movement, the newly opened Black Screen Office and other industry groups have come together to launch the Canadian Independent Screen Fund for underrepresented content creators. CISF co-chair Lalita Krishna told The Hollywood Reporter the new film fund represented a call to action for a Canadian industry needing to open doors for emerging Black creators long denied soft money for their film and TV projects.