Critical Writing Index

Black On Screen

by Claire Prieto and National Film Board of Canada

Montreal: Studio D, The Women's Studio of the National Film Board, 1992

This programme catalog is for Studio D's (NFB) 1992 programme, Black on Screen: Images of Black Canadians 1950s-1990s. The programme presents a historical overview and image bank of representations of Black Canadians between 1950 and 1990.

Catalog Contents:

Page 1: Dedication;

Page 2:

Introduction by Ginny Stikeman, Studio D's Exec Producer;

Page 3:

Reflections by Claire Prieto, Independent Producer/Director;

Pages 4 to 6:

Researcher's Notes by Researcher Molly Amoli Kaur Shinhat;

Pages 7 to 32:

List of all titles in the programme. A brief synopsis and overview of technical specifications is included for each title in the programme;

Page 33: NFB Rental and Sales Information;

Pages 33 to 26: Directory of Canadian Distributors;

Pages 37 to 38: Programme Index

Page 39: NFB Market Research Feedback Form;

Page 39: NFB Mailing Address for Feedback Form

Includes notes from Claire Prieto as well as distribution and FORMAT search and category problems that came up during the compilation of the catalogue.

"In 1974 the NFB established Studio D, one of the first publicly funded feminist film-production unit in the world. Studio D would eventually become home to six staff directors and a number of producers and support staff. About half the studio’s films were to be directed by independent women filmmakers from across the country." - [Taken from NFB's webpage on Studio D, https://www.nfb.ca/channels/studio-d-films-women-women/]

ITEM 1992.097 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

A Force de Vivre – Lionel Icart

A Saint Henri Le Cinq Septembre – Hubert Aquin

As-tu Des Bibittes – Francois Truchon

Back from Babylon – Rohan Persaud

Bam Pay A! Rends-Moi Mon Pays – Tahani Rached

The Bard's Son – Claude Lavoie

Big and the Blues – Marrin Canell

Black and White in Colour – Selina R. Williams

Black Heritage in Alberta – Kurt W. Palka

Black Mother Black Daughter – Sylvia Hamilton, Claire Prieto

Black Perspectives: Sharing Culture – Regent Park Video Workshop and Dixon Hall

Black Studies: A Model – Christene Browne

Brothers in Music – Selwyn Jacob

Carol's Mirror – Keith Packwood

Celebrating Together – Roger McTair

Children are Not the Problem: An Anti-Racist Childcare Strategies Film – Glace W. Lawrence

The Colour of Immunity – Jacques W. Benoit

Comment Faire L'Amour Avec Un Negre Sans Se Fatiguer (How To Make Love To a Negro Without Getting Tired) – Donald Haldane

Crossroads – Errol Williams

A Darker Side – Glace W. Lawrence

D-E-S-I-R-E – Jacques Godbout

Distorsions – Julian Biggs

Dresden Story – Errol Williams, Blair MacIntyre

Driftwood – Rex Tasker

Encounter at Kwacha House - Halifax – Michelle Mohabeer

Exposure – Gordon Burwash

Eye Witness No. 33 – Terence Macartney-Filgate

Fields of Endless Day – CBC Halifax

Freedom – Christene Browne

From Nevis To... – Gilles Groulx

Golden Gloves – Andrew Davis

Good Hair, Pretty Hair, Curly Hair – Alain d'Aix

Goute-Sel-Haiti, Un Soir D'Hiver – Stefan Scaini

Gracie's Rap – Tahani Rached

Haiti (Quebec) – Trevor Haws

Hate – Jennifer Hodge, Roger McTair

Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community – Claire Prieto, Roger McTair

Home to Buxton – CTV Network

Lincoln Alexander – Bonnie Sherr Klein

Little Burgundy – John Howe

Long Ways to Go – Donna James

Maigre Dog – Monik Dauphin

Mami Wata – Kent Martin

Meeting Place – Rebecca Yates, Glen Salzman

Milk and Honey – John Greyson

A Moffie Called Simon – Jim Banks, Devon Martin

Mr. Metro – Peter Karuna

My Father was an English Man – Jennifer Hodge

Myself, Yourself – Christene Browne

No Choice – Helene Klodawsky

No Time to Stop – Ariadne Ochrymovych

No Way! Not me – Claire Prieto

Older Stronger Wiser – Martin Duckworth

Oliver Jones in Africa – Richard Fung

Out of the Blue – Elizabeth Schroder

Pelican Players Remember The Ginger Wine – Maurice Bulbulian

La P'Tite Bourgogne