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How Canadian Black Women in the Film Industry are Breaking the Mould By: Sumiko Wilson


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““In our communities, we’re taught the scarcity mentality and that only one [of us] can get [acclaim] at a time,” she says. “It hasn’t been until the past four years that I’ve actually become friends with other Black female and non-binary directors. We were never put in the same room because we were competing against one another for work.”'"


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