Remember Africville

199135 minFilm: Documentary

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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.

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