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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A wonderful collection of fiction, documentary,
animation and music videos about black communities begins a nine-city
cross-Canada tour in Toronto this Friday, January 31.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>These Iced in Black: Canadian Black Experiences on
Film directors and titles are:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Black Soul/Ame Noire (Martine Chartrand); Blind
Date (Sarah Michelle Brown); Chocolate City (Stefan Verna); Coming to Voice
(Glace Lawrence); Destiny (Laurie Lambert); Divas: Love Me Forever (Edimburgo
Cabrera); The Journey of Lesra Martin (Cheryl Foggo); In the Key of Oscar
(Sylvia Sweeney, William Cunningham); Last Witness (Emmanuel Kedini); Making
Change (Colina Philips); The Photographer: An Artist's Journey (Anton Wagner);
Planet of Junior Brown (Clement Virgo); Portia White: Think on Me (Sylvia
Hamilton); Roland Jean: A Modernist Portrait (Michelle Anne Bess); Short Hymn,
Silent War (Charles Officer); Show Girls/Les Girls (Meilan Lam); Spoken Word
(Seth Adrian Harris); Style of My Soul (Kai Soremekun); a Music Video Series
(Erskine "Skin" Forde, Errol Boucaud, Masani Montague, Jim Morrison, Chris
Scott, Dawn Wilkinson, and Butta Babees); and an animation children's collection
(Cilia Sawadogo, Vincent Gauthier and Jamie Mason).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For more information about these films, see the
website <A href="http://www.icedinblack.ca">www.icedinblack.ca</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The screening dates and cities of the cross-Canada
tour are as follows: Toronto (Jan. 31-Feb. 2); Waterloo (Feb. 6-9); Ottawa (Feb.
14-16); Montreal (Feb. 21-23); Halifax (Feb. 27-March 2); Edmonton (March
15-16); Vancouver (March 21-22); Victoria (March 23) and Winnipeg (March
28-29).</FONT></DIV>
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