Open Forum: Anti-Racism On Screen – In Conversation with Ali Kazimi

Amar Wala and Anita Lee in Conversation with Ali Kazimi

Tuesday, September 24
7:00 P.M.
Bachir/Yerex Screening Room (4th Floor)
401 Richmond Street West

Amar Wala is a writer, director, producer and activist whose films and series include Secret Trial Five, Next Stop and Shook (TIFF 2024).

Anita Lee is TIFF’s Chief Programming Officer and producer exec producer of Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story, To Kill a Tiger and Stories We Tell.

Professor Ali Kazimi (pronounced Ka-Zim-E) is filmmaker, writer, and visual artist whose work deals with race, social justice, migration, history, memory and archive. In 2019 he received the Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts, as well as a Doctor of Letters, honoris causa from the University of British Columbia. In 2023 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Open Forum is a monthly series of conversations about putting anti-racism on screen, co-presented by York’s Cinema and Media Arts, Vtape, CFMDC, Reel Asian International Film Festival and OCADU.