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Remember Africville
199135 minFilm: Documentary
Direction: Shelagh Mackenzie
Production: Daryl GrayShelagh MackenzieGermaine Ying Gee WongSami Fareed Ahmed
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in association with the CBC.
Africville, a small black settlement, lay within the city limits of Halifax, Nova Scotia. In the 1960s, the families who lived there were uprooted and their homes demolished in the name of urban renewal and integration. Now, more than twenty years later, the site of the community of Africville is a stark, under-utilized park. Former residents, their descendants and some of the decision-makers, speak out and, with the help of archival photographs and films, tell the story of that painful relocation.
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Subject categories
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > African OriginsAtlantic RegionBlack CommunitySocial Problems Since 1970
- Urbanism > Atlantic RegionSocial Conditions
- Diversity > Black StudiesDiversity in Communities
- History and Citizenship Education > Issues in Society Today
Credits
- director
- Shelagh Mackenzie
- producer
- Daryl Gray
- Shelagh Mackenzie
- executive producer
- Germaine Ying Gee Wong
- Sami Fareed Ahmed
- camera
- Kent Nason
- André Gariépy
- sound
- Arthur McKay
- editing
- Shelagh Mackenzie
- Kent Nason
- Eric Campbell
- sound editing
- Alex Salter
- sound mixer
- Howard England
- narrator
- Delvina Bernard
- music
- Scott MacMillan
Awards
- Moonsnail Award - Category: Best DocumentaryAtlantic International Film Festival