SAVAC Sponsored Event: Regent Park Film Festival

Focus Afercia

1-3 October, 2004

Nelson Mandela Park School, 440 Shuter St., Toronto

Regent Park Film Festival is organized by a group of cinephiles who believe in the power of cinema to build communities, increase interesting and multicultural relationships and empower individuals. It is dedicated to bringing films relevant to the communities living in Regent Park with an emphasis on films from our countries of origin (South Asia, Africa, Asia and Latin America) as well as films from North America about immigrant diaspora issues which will help the communities envision their present and future in Canada.

The goal of the festival is to celebrate the unity as well as the diveristy of Regent Park. It is also to create a forum of discussion and reflection on various issues such as class, race, gender, multicuturalism, identity, sexuality and democratic participation. The festival is free of charge. A year-long program of free montly screenings have been added to make this an ongoing process in co-operation with Regent Park Focus.