Wednesday, February 1st, 2017
6PM – 8PM
488 College Street
Toronto, ON, M6G 1A4
Canada
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
Nadine Valcin is a filmmaker whose documentary and dramatic work deals with questions of race, language and identity. She has been researching the topic of slavery in Canada for many years. She will be presenting two films related to the topic, Whitewash, an experimental documentary as well as the short dramatic film Fire and Fury. She will be discussing the research and process behind the two works and their relationship to an immersive project she is currently developing.
About the artist:
Nadine Valcin is an award winning bilingual producer, writer and director. She has directed four documentary projects for the National Film Board of Canada, including the critically acclaimed Black, Bold and Beautiful and Une école sans frontières (A School without Boarders). Most recently, she has written and directed three short dramatic films and is developing two feature films. Terre d’asile (in French) and My Own Angel (in English). Nadine has been awarded numerous grants and prizes including the prestigious Chalmers Arts Fellowship and a Drama Prize from the National Screen Institute for the short film In Between. She holds a professional degree in architecture from McGill University and is an alumnus of Doc Lab, the Women in the Director’s Chair, and the National Screen Institute. She was an artist-in-residence at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University for the 2015-2016 academic year. She currently serves as president of the FRIC (Front des réalisateurs indépendants du Canada) and BRBR, a show of emerging music by Groupe Média TFO.