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PLAYBACK: OYA Black Art’s “Reel Black: Our Film Stories” Wins Audience Choice Award at Women in Film & Television Toronto Showcase 2023

Producers Shehrezade Mian and Alexx Bryant led the honourees at the Women in Film & Television Toronto (WIFT Toronto)’s 14th annual Showcase awards. The WIFT Showcase took place on Tuesday (May 9) at Toronto’s TIFF Bell Lightbox, and featured eight short films from women and non-binary filmmakers from Canada. The shorts compete between four awards … Read more

August 16, 2024

OYA Media Group Marks Adoption Awareness Month and World AIDS Day with the Award Winning Film, Promise Me

“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

August 16, 2024

OYA Black Arts Coalition and CFC Media Lab Name a Latest Slate of Black Creative Talent for OYA Scale Up Immersive

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

August 16, 2024

Oya Black Arts Coalition At The Blaxpo 2022 Conference

We are honoured to be a part of the Blaxpo 2022 Conference in Toronto! This Event is a Hybrid conference to connect, support and provide networking opportunities for the brightest BIPOC talents across canada. Meet with us to learn about what we do and our open positions at OBAC: Designer & Social Media Coordinator Operations … Read more

August 16, 2024

OYA Black Arts Coalition (OBAC) Announces Second Cohort of Participants for a Sophomore Business Affairs Bootcamp

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

August 16, 2024

OBAC ALUMNI SELECTED AS PLAYBACK TOP 10 ONE’S TO WATCH: Adrian Wallace

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

August 16, 2024

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