Black Bodies (film)

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Black Bodies (film) - Wikipedia

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Black Bodies
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Directed by	Kelly Fyffe-Marshall
Written by	Kelly Fyffe-Marshall
Produced by	Tamar Bird Sasha Leigh Henry
Starring	Donisha Prendergast Komi-Oluwa Olafimihan
Cinematography	Jordan Oram
Production company	Sunflower Studios
Release date	September 11, 2020 (2020-09-11) (TIFF)
Running time	5 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	English

Black Bodies is a 2020 Canadian short film, directed by Kelly Fyffe-Marshall, and produced by Tamar Bird and Sasha Leigh Henry.^[1] Inspired by a real-life incident when Fyffe-Marshall, Komi Olaf and Donisha Prendergast were travelling in California, and a woman in the neighbourhood called the police on them because she wrongly believed they were burglarizing their Airbnb rental, the film features Olaf and Prendergast performing spoken word pieces about the trauma of being victimized by anti-Black racism.^[2]

The film premiered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival,^[3] where Fyffe-Marshall was named the winner of the inaugural Changemaker Award.^[4]

The film was named to TIFF's year-end Canada's Top Ten list for short films.^[5] Fyffe-Marshall was subsequently awarded the Jay Scott Prize by the Toronto Film Critics Association.^[6]

The film won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards.^[7]

The film has been released to digital platforms as a bonus feature accompanying Charles Officer's feature film Akilla's Escape.^[8]

Cast

Komi Olaf
Donisha Rita Claire Prendergast

References

^ Andrew Parker, "A Look at Short Cuts Programme 02 | TIFF 2020". TheGATE.ca, September 11, 2020.
^ Marivel Taruc, "Toronto filmmaker creates account of what it means to be Black in 2020". CBC News, September 11, 2020.
^ Jeremy Kay, "TIFF adds special events including new edition of Planet Africa, live talks series". Screen Daily, August 25, 2020.
^ Etan Vlessing, "Toronto: Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' Wins Audience Award". The Hollywood Reporter, September 20, 2020.
^ Victoria Ahearn, "Toronto International Film Festival releases Top Ten lists for 2020" Archived 2021-01-04 at the Wayback Machine. Squamish Chief, December 9, 2020.
^ Etan Vlessing, "Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' Named Best Picture by Toronto Film Critics Association". The Hollywood Reporter, February 7, 2021.
^ Naman Ramachandran, "‘Schitt’s Creek,’ ‘Blood Quantum’ Triumph at Canadian Screen Awards". Variety, May 21, 2021.
^ Victoria Ahearn, "‘Black Bodies’ director Kelly Fyffe-Marshall making ‘ripples’ in Canadian film and TV". Toronto Star, July 7, 2021.

External links

Black Bodies at IMDb

v t e Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television for Best Animated Short, Best Live Action Short and Best Theatrical Short
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Live Action Short (1986–present)	The Edit (1986) I Need a Man Like You to Make My Dreams Come True (1987) The Mysterious Moon Men of Canada (1989) In Search of the Last Good Man (1990) Battle of the Bulge (1992) The Fairy Who Didn't Want to Be a Fairy Anymore (1993) The Hangman's Bride (1997) When Ponds Freeze Over (1998) Moving Day (1999) Le P'tit Varius (2000) The Heart of the World (2001) I Shout Love (2002) Noël Blank (2003) Capacité 11 personnes (2004) Milo 55160 (2005) Le rouge au sol (2006) Après tout (2007) Next Floor (2008) Danse Macabre (2009) Savage (2010) Doubles with Slight Pepper (2011) Throat Song (2012) Noah (2013) Hole (2014) She Stoops to Conquer (2015) Mutants (2016) Fluffy (2017) Fauve (2018) Pick (2019) Black Bodies (2020) Girls Shouldn't Walk Alone at Night (2021) Simo (2022) Motherland (2023)
Animated Short (1968–present)	Un enfant...un pays¹ (1968) Walking (1969) To See or Not to See (1970) Evolution (1971) Dans la vie... (1972) The Family That Dwelt Apart (1973) The Owl Who Married a Goose (1975) The Street (1976) Spinnolio (1977) Afterlife (1978) Every Child (1980) The Big Snit (1986) Get a Job (1987) The Cat Came Back (1989) Juke-Bar (1990) Strings (1992) Pearl's Diner (1993) La vieille dame et les pigeons (1997) Bingo (1998) When the Day Breaks (1999) Village of Idiots (2000) The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg (2001) The Hungry Squid (2002) Falling in Love Again (2003) Ryan (2004) cNote (2005) The Danish Poet (2006) Madame Tutli-Putli (2007) Isabelle au bois dormant (2008) Runaway (2009) Lipsett Diaries (2010) Romance (2011) Paula (2012) Subconscious Password (2013) Me and My Moulton (2014) The Ballad of Immortal Joe (2015) Blind Vaysha (2016) The Tesla World Light (2017) Animal Behaviour (2018) Giant Bear (2019) Hot Flash (2020) Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman's Apprentice (2021) The Flying Sailor (2022) Where Rabbits Come From (2023)
¹ These two films were given honorable mentions rather than officially winning the award, but are included here as no other winner was named above them.

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