Jennifer Hodge de Silva's 1983 film showed a different side of Toronto's Jane and Finch. 40 years later, the conversations around police and anti-Black racism are still just as relevant.
. We asked writers to choose a Canadian-directed film that they believe should have been included — particularly ones that fill the representational gaps in Canada's film history — and tell us why it deserves to be there.that ranks among the most powerful scenes in Canadian film.
The 1983 documentary, written and directed by Jennifer Hodge de Silva with additional direction from Roger McTair, is about tensions between police and residents in the Jane and Finch area. We see the young performers play to a crowd gathered at the local shopping mall. They're under the watchful eye of several constables — a moment of joy rendered uneasy.
Greg Bob, a Grenadian immigrant, gives the film its title, describing living among the Black community in Jane and Finch as giving that "home feeling." He talks about life in the West Indies, where people would hang outdoors on the corners after work. But such congregations in the Jane and Finch area would be disrupted by officers who would come tell them to "move along.
Brown's experience resists the self-defeating concept that Black people must be strong and resilient. But her story, like so many in, is also one of self-empowerment. She describes attending group therapy and sharing her experience with others in the community who she discovers are dealing with the same struggles and are ready to rally together.
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