"We shifted from the focal point of the fear to being the heros."
Curated by Barbara Chirinos in partnership with VIFF Vancity Theatre’s Tom Charity, this year’s Black History Month film series gives us a wide range of black experience and creativity, from Fela Kuti’s radical Afro-beat to Toni Morrison’s haunting literature. It includes a history of horror movies and the new Underground Railroad historical drama, Harriet, as well as an all-ages $5 animation show, a Queer Night, and a tribute to the late writer-director John Singleton, with Boyz n the Hood.