''21 Black Futures'' is a Canadian film and theatre project, broadcast by
CBC Gem in 2021.
[Victoria Ahearn]
"Black creators explore 'the future of Blackness' in '21 Black Futures' on CBC Gem"
CityNews, February 17, 2021. Created in conjunction with the
Black Canadian
Black Canadians (also known as Caribbean-Canadians or Afro-Canadians) are people of full or partial sub-Saharan African descent who are citizens or permanent residents of Canada. The majority of Black Canadians are of Caribbean origin, though t ...
theatre company
Obsidian Theatre
Obsidian Theatre Company is a Canadian professional theatre company that specializes in works by Black Canadian artists. The company is located in Toronto, Ontario. The declared mandate of the company is a threefold mission: to produce plays, to ...
to mark both
Black History Month and the 21st anniversary of Obsidian, the project commissioned 21 short film adaptations of theatrical monologues on the theme of "the future of Blackness" by Black Canadian writers, each performed by a Black actor on the stage of
Meridian Hall in
Toronto.
[
The project was commissioned in part because the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada had prevented the staging of a traditional theatre festival.][
The project aired over three weeks in February 2021, with seven films premiering each week on February 12, 19 and 26.][Glenn Sumi]
"New work imagines a world without white supremacists"
'' Now'', February 8, 2021.
Films
Awards
References
{{CBC Television shows (current and upcoming)
2021 Canadian television series debuts
2021 Canadian television series endings
CBC Gem original programming
2020s Black Canadian television series
Best Digital Fiction Series Canadian Screen Award winners
Afrofuturism