NFB celebrates Black History Month in February

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Montreal – Black History Month activities by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in February will feature screenings and events in the heart of Montreal’s Quartier des Spectacles and communities across Canada—along with a rich selection of special online programming.

The legacy of trailblazing Black musicians will be in the spotlight this month thanks to two new major works by NFB filmmakers: Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee’s multi-award-winning Banger Films/NFB documentary Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story and Graeme Mathieson and Chris Flanagan’s short doc series Sounds & Pressure: Reggae in a Foreign Land.

Black History Month Video

Black History Month at the NFB’s Alanis Obomsawin Theatre in Montreal’s Quartier des Spectacles

Free screenings presented at 1500 Balmoral Street. Original English versions with French subtitles.

Thursday, February 6, at 7 p.m.
Presented as part of the NFB screening series Hello Film!
Press kit: mediaspace.nfb.ca/epk/any-other-way-jackie-shane

  • Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story—40 years after vanishing from public view, trailblazing Black trans soul singer Jackie Shane finally gets her second act.  
  • Accompanied by Marie-Josée St-Pierre’s animated short doc Oscar about Montreal’s Oscar Peterson.