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Must See African Interest Films at VIFF 

on September 11th, 2024 by The Afro News

Full swing for the 2024 Vancouver International Film Festival, taking place from September 26 – October 6 Must See African Interest Films. Media Partner ,The Afro News Is proud to Sponsor. Black Tea   Director: Abderrahmane Sissako  After saying no on her wedding day, Aya leaves the Ivory Coast for a new life in the buzzing “Chocolate

Filed under: Art & Music, Canadian News, Entertainment, Entertainment News, Events, International News, Local News, News, World Tagged as: 40 Acres, African Films, Black Tea, Film Festival, VIFF

VIFF Highlighted Films Goodbye Julia

on September 28th, 2023 by The Afro News

Goodbye Julia | Dir. Mohamed Kordofani | Sudan   Wed. Oct 4, 9:00 pm, International Village 9  |    Fri. Oct 6, 3:15 pm, SFU-GCA Media Partner & Sponsor  The Afro News   In the lead-up to the secession of South Sudan, Mona (Eiman Yousif), a well-to-do retired singer from the  North, becomes complicit in

Filed under: Art & Music, Canadian News, Entertainment News, Events, International News, Local News, News Tagged as: Goodbye Julia, legacy of racism, Mohamed Kordofani’s, social inequities

VIFF 2023 Highlighted Films  

on September 26th, 2023 by The Afro News

Union Street | Dir. Jamila Pomeroy | Canada   Mon. Oct 2, 8:45 pm, SFU-GCA    | Sat. Oct 7, 3:30 pm, Rio  Media Partner: The Afro News   Interspersing interviews with archival footage, Union Street documents the history of Vancouver’s Hogan’s Alley, the formerly Black neighbourhood which was destroyed by the construction of the

Filed under: Around the Town, Art & Music, Canadian News, Entertainment, Entertainment News, Events, International News, Local News, News Tagged as: Union Street VIFF 2023, Vancouver’s Hogan’s Alley, VIFF 2023

Vancouver International Film Festival Announces 2023 Lineup

on September 22nd, 2023 by The Afro News

Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) presents its 42nd edition this month, the first fully in-cinema festival since 2019. This year’s lineup features roughly 140 feature films and 100 shorts, presented on 10 screens in seven Vancouver venues. Vancouverites will be able to explore film culture through an expanded program of live events, performances, and exhibitions.

Filed under: Art & Music, Canadian News, Entertainment, Entertainment News, Events, International News, Local News, News Tagged as: Goodbye Julia, Jamila Pomeroy, Mohamed Kordofani, Union Street, Vancouver International Film Festival

CBC’s Family Feud is Casting African/Black Canadian Families!

on April 28th, 2023 by The Afro News

Family Feud Canada is back and they’re looking for Canada’s most dynamic and energetic families to feud on CBC’s hit comedy game show and we are here to help you get a head start on the competition! If you think your family has what it takes to face-off the competition and win up to $30,000

Filed under: Business, Canadian News, Entertainment News, Events Tagged as: Family Feud Canada Season 5!

UBCP/ACTRA 11th Annual Awards Gala Celebrations

on November 20th, 2022 by The Afro News

The 11th annual awards gala celebrates the best of British Columbia’s talent in film, television and recorded media. Agam Darshi, Eric McCormack and Stephen Lobo AMONGST WINNERS AT THE 2022 UBCP/ACTRA AWARDS Vancouver, B.C. (November 19, 2022) – This year’s UBCP/ACTRA Awards ceremony honoured performers in six categories during the live ceremony at The Vancouver Playhouse on November

Filed under: Art & Music, Business, Canadian News, Entertainment News, Events, Local News Tagged as: British Columbia’s talent in film, UBCP/ACTRA 11th Annual Awards Gala

Trudeau’s Censorship Bill a Blow to Content Creators

on October 12th, 2022 by The Afro News

It’s time to finally scrap the dangerous Bill C-11 as it does the exact opposite of what the government claims it wants to do Prime Minister Justin Trudeau doesn’t care about Canadian content creators. When Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriquez first tabled Bill C-11, the Trudeau government’s online censorship bill, the primary rationale he gave for

Filed under: Business, Canadian News, Entertainment News, Opinion/Comment, Point of View, The Bridge Tagged as: Canadian content creators

BROTHER Dir. Clement Virgo (CANADA)

on September 26th, 2022 by The Afro News

 The 41st  Annual Vancouver International Film Festival (Viff ) September 29 – October 9, 2022  Cast: Lamar Johnson, Aaron Pierre, Kiana Madeira, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Lovell Adams-Gray, Maurice Dean Wint Screenings: October 1, 6:00 pm, Vancouver Playhouse October 4, 9:15 pm, The Rio (19+)  Short Note: Against the backdrop of suburban Scarborough, two brothers (Lamar

Filed under: Around the Town, Art & Music, Canadian News, Entertainment News, Events Tagged as: The annual Vancouver International Film Festival, VIFF 2022, VIFF NEWS

ARTS CLUB THEATRE COMPANY ANNOUNCES Rolling World Premiere of Redbone Coonhound

on September 16th, 2022 by The Afro News

October 6–30, 2022 (Media opening: October 12) By Amy Lee Lavoie & Omari Newton . An Arts Club Silver Commission as part of a Rolling World Premiere with Tarragon Theatre (Toronto) and Imago Theatre (Montreal) VANCOUVER, B.C. (September 14, 2022)—Hard-hitting comedy meets searing social commentary on race, gender, and oppression in the Rolling World Premiere

Filed under: Around the Town, Art & Music, Canadian News, Entertainment News Tagged as: Redbone coonhound, World Premiere of Redbone Coonhound

90 Days – Opens September 8

on August 29th, 2022 by The Afro News

50 years ago, on August 4, 1972, Idi Amin, then President of Uganda, called together troops at Tororo barracks and announced he had been instructed by God, through a dream, to throw out all the country’s Asian population (residents and citizens of Indian and Pakistan heritage) – then numbering in the tens of thousands. He

Filed under: Art & Music, Entertainment News, Familly Matters, Point of View, The Bridge, World Tagged as: “90 Days is set in 1972 in Kampala., 90 Days playwright
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