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CIFF returns!
The Calgary International Film Festival or CIFF, is back for its 24th year! The festival takes place September 21 – October 1 at Cineplex Eau Claire and The Globe Cinema. The festival will showcase over […]
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“A Day in the Life” with Calgary Film Director Ramin Eshraghi-Yazdi
Ramin Eshraghi-Yazdi is a film-based storyteller and documentarian living in Calgary and Montreal. He guides his practice with an empathic eye, open curiosity, and a collaborative approach, inviting subjects into the process of telling their […]
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Robert Cuffley achieves his dream of becoming a filmmaker
Robert Cuffley said that there is one movie in particular that started his passion for film. That movie is, Star Wars in 1977. “My dad took me. I was not consciously aware of it yet, […]
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Review: Dancing Around the Table, Parts I & II, NFB films by Maurice Bulbulian
Dancing Around the Table Part One and Dancing Around the Table Part Two, are both NFB documentaries directed by Maurice Bulbulian. In 1980, triggered by the repatriation of the Canadian Constitution, Representatives of Native Peoples […]
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‘What Flowers They Bloom’ Film on Addressing Anti-Asian Racism
What Flowers They Bloom is a documentary that recently aired in both the Metro Cinema in Edmonton and at Central Library in Calgary. Directed by C. Hudson Hwang, What Flowers They Bloom addresses the ever […]
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The Calgary Black Film Festival is back for its third edition
The Calgary Black Film Festival is back for its third edition! Described as “Necessary, Innovative, Strong, Diverse and Bold programming,” the Calgary Black Film Festival sets out to amplify the voices of Afro-descendants. The Calgary […]
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Film Screening: CATHARSIS aims to de stigmatize therapy in African & Black Communities.
Sarah Uwadiae last graced the pages of the Calgary Guardian in May 2022 on the red carpet of the Calgary Black Film Festival, where her documentary Home first premiered. Even then she was already talking […]
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Review: Cheryl Foggo’s John Ware Reclaimed an essential viewing for Albertans
John Ware Reclaimed is a 2020 documentary written and directed by Cheryl Foggo for the NFB. The film is just over one hour and “follows filmmaker Cheryl Foggo on her quest to re-examine the mythology […]
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Beauty and Gore: A Film Review of Prey
Set in the Great Plains of North America in the early 1700s, the film Prey markets itself as a prequel in the Predator franchise. The original Predator movie directed by John McTiernan and starring Arnold […]
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The 2nd edition of the Calgary Black Film Festival
It may surprise some readers to learn that the city of Calgary holds Canada’s 4th largest Black population. From May 26th to 29th our city was out celebrating the second iteration of the Calgary Black […]