WINNER OF TWO CANADIAN SCREEN AWARDS - DONALD BRITTAIN AWARD FOR BEST SOCIAL/POLITICAL DOCUMENTARY & BEST WRITING - DOCUMENTARY
Documentary | 45min │ Canada │ 4K │Colour
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 system. This film gives an insider perspective of Black community activism in Canada.
DIRECTED BY NGARDY CONTEH GEORGE
WRITTEN BY NGARDY CONTEH GEORGE & ALISON DUKE
EDITED BY SONIA GODDING-TOGOBO
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY MARK VALINO
COMPOSED BY ORIN ISAACS
FEATURING WINSTON LAROSE
Contributors
In the News
The Globe and Mail | Mr. Jane and Finch: Portrait of politics as it should be, but isn’t
POV Magazine | ‘Mr. Jane and Finch’: Portrait of a Community Advocate
by blacks | Documentary: Mr. Jane and Finch Is All Of Us
Share news | February 7, 2019 Vol.41 No.23
Dami Adeniyi | MR. JANE AND FINCH, AN INSIDER LOOK AT THE 2018 TORONTO MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS AND THE MAN THAT RAN WITH HIS HEART
Toronto Caribbean | Affectionately known as Mr. Jane and Finch
Now Toronto | The best Black History Month 2019 events in Toronto
Hype Magazine | Mr. Jane and Finch Documentary Makes National Television Debut on CBC!
Nollywood Observer | MR. Jane and Finch: The Man That Ran With His Heart
CBC | Metro Morning
Hip Hop Canada | Mr. Jane And Finch documentary to make national television debut on CBC POV & Gems
Apex Coture | Mr. Jane And Finch Documentary National Television Debut on CBC DOCS POV
Fern TV | THE FOCUS #1-ALISON DUKE
Screenings
Jun 4th, 2020
Timehri Film Festival
Online
Mar 1st, 2020
Humber College
Toronto, ON Canada
Feb 26th, 2020
The Viola Desmond Lecture
Morehouse College Atlanta, GA USA
Feb 4th, 2020
NBHS Black History Month Film Festival
Iqaluit, NU Canada
Aug 24nd, 2019
Bronze Lens Film Festival
Atlanta, GA USA
8th Annual BlackStar Film Festival
Philadelphia, PA USA
Aug 2nd, 2019
May 25th, 2019
Yorkton Film Festival
Yorkton, SK Canada
Feb 17th, 2019
Toronto Black Film Festival
Toronto, ON Canada
Photos courtesy of Yvano Wickham-Edwards for 10855022 Canada Inc./Oya Media Group © 2019