Toronto, November 30, 2022 – OYA Black Arts Coalition (OBAC) and the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab (CFC Media Lab) have teamed up once again, this time to deliver a new slate of Black Canadian creative talent for the 2023 cohort of OYA Scale Up Immersive, an accelerator dedicated to boosting Black content creators and/or … Read more
“Yolonda and her daughter Charlie are ripped apart by illness, an unjust system, and a failure to face the truth.” Toronto, November 28th, 2022 – OYA Media Group marks the end of Adoption Awareness Month, November 2022, and the observance of World AIDS Day, on Thursday, December 1, 2022, with the award winning film, Promise … Read more
Angelica Babiera from Playback Magazine wrote a piece on our OYA Emerging Filmmaker and Business Bootcamp Alumni Adrian Wallace Selecting him in their [Playback’s] Top 10 ones to watch in 2022! Read the highlight from a great spotlight for a trailblazing black filmmaker. Adrian Wallace knew early on that he wanted to be the change … Read more
Toronto, October 18, 2022 – OYA Black Arts Coalition (OBAC) is pleased to announce the successful candidates for the second cohort of participants in a sophomore round of their successful OBAC Business Affairs Boot Camp. Similar to initial Boot Camp, which ran from January to March this year, the program provides 11 Black-owned mid-career film, … Read more
When intergenerational conversations happen between Black Canadian established and emerging filmmakers what results are pearls of wisdom about the film industry, the gatekeepers, challenges, strategies and victories. These moments are captured in “Reel Black: Our Film Stories,” produced by OYA Media Group’s award-winning creative team, in which emerging Black filmmakers Christian Anderson and Ajahnis Charley … Read more
It’s the 1st long weekend of Summer 2022, aka Victoria Day Weekend. As we interrogate Toronto’s colonial past, be sure to check out Our Home and Haunted Land, created by Nadine Valcin and Priam Givord and a part of ArtworxTO. Produced by OYA Black Arts Coalition. As a visual experience, Our Home And Haunted Land … Read more
