Presented by Toronto Arab Film as part of the Toronto Arab Film Festival
There are many entry ways into the film industry for emerging filmmakers, whether you want to direct, write, or produce. Representatives from the Reelworld Institute, Toronto Arts Council and the Director's Guild of Canada will outline the opportunities available to those who want to work in the industry and answer your questions about any of the programs they run.
About the speakers
Safia Abdigir is a Toronto-based arts culture worker specifically interested in the facilitation of diverse perspectives in the Canadian film/visual arts industry. Currently, she’s the Industry Programming Manager at the Reelworld Screen Institute, where she manages the programming of the film festival and runs the year-long Producer Programs.
Timaj Garad is an Ethiopian-Harari Toronto-based multidisciplinary storyteller (poet, actress, singer-songwriter), arts educator, and community organizer. She works at the Toronto Arts Council, where she develops and manages the Black Arts program for Black artists and Black-led organizations. She creates music with a genre-bending mix of spoken word poetry, hip-hop, and R&B, soul, afro-jazz, and dance. In 2017, she founded
LUMINOUS Fest, Canada’s first Black Muslim arts festival, and later co-founded The Sisters’ Retreat, a retreat series hosting arts-based wellness retreats for Muslim women.
Director's Guild of Canada - TBA
The Goethe-Institut is an arts partner of Toronto Arab Film
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