One of the Crazy8s finalists, “Gone Abroad”, is set in a Catholic school where students are told that a classmate has left the country.
Bernard, a multiple Leo Award winner, directed one of six short films that will be screened on Saturday (April 15) evening in Vancouver.
温哥华演员兼导演Rukiya Bernard最新短片的历史背景并非由她凭空想像出来，而是她在多伦多成长的亲身经历。Rukiya透过电话向Pancouver表示，自己的父母多年来是多伦多首家非洲商店World Art & Décor的拥有者。因此，她在成长阶段已经接触非洲和加勒比海的文化和历史。她的母亲来自东非国家肯雅，父亲则来自牙买加。
溫哥華演員兼導演Rukiya Bernard最新短片的歷史背景並非由她憑空想像出來，而是她在多倫多成長的親身經歷。Rukiya透過電話向Pancouver表示，自己的父母多年來是多倫多首家非洲商店World Art & Décor的擁有者。因此，她在成長階段已經接觸非洲和加勒比海的文化和歷史。她的母親來自東非國家肯雅，父親則來自牙買加。
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This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.
The Society of We Are Canadians Too created Pancouver to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. With this acknowledgement, we thank the Indigenous peoples who still live on and care for this land.
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