MR JANE & FINCH

MR JANE & FINCH

CANADA | 2019 | 45 MINS

A beloved 80-year-old Guyanese-Canadian activist Winston LaRose, who has documented the Black community throughout the African Diaspora for the past 60 years throws his hat into local politics and is met with unflinching systemic racism in the Canadian political sys-tem. This film gives an insider perspective of Black community activism in Canada.

directed by NGARDY CONTEH GEORGE
Co-founder of Oya Media Group, Ngardy Conteh George is a Canadian Screen Award winning filmmaker, a Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Fellow and grantee, and recipient of grants from the Toronto and Ontario Art Councils and the Canada Council for the Arts. She is committed to working with marginalized, and often unheard communities, especially those that represent the rich cultures and complexi-ties of the African Diaspora. Her films include short documentary Dudley Speaks for Me (Best Canadian Presentation, Caribbean Tales Int’l Film Festival, 2016), award-winning Sundance Documentary Film Fund supported feature length documentary The Flying Stars (Best documentary – BronzeLens Film Festival, 2015) and most re-cently TV hour Mr. Jane and Finch winner of two 2020 Canadian Screen Awards: the Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary and Best Writing for a Documentary. The film was commissioned by CBC Docs POV and nominated for a Golden Sheaf award. She is currently working on her first cinematic 360 VR documen-tary project, ‘Wa’Omoni Rising’.