What We Do

The Black Screen Office (BSO) works independently and in collaboration with screen industry decision-makers and creators to make Canada’s screen industries equitable and free of anti-Black racism. Through ground-breaking research, innovative workforce initiatives and education and advocacy, the BSO creates and supports opportunities for Black Canadians to have thriving careers in the screen industries and to share their onscreen stories globally.

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Contact Black Screen Office

Please get in touch for opportunities to work together, partner together, volunteer, or learn more. Volunteer opportunities include advocacy, policy, research, social engagement, fundraising, and more.

Join the BSO Online Community

We are excited to welcome you to our new virtual community platform on the BSO website and our dedicated Facebook Group! This online space is designed to connect and empower Black media professionals, providing a hub for sharing experiences, insights, and opportunities.

Supporters

Rogers Group of Funds
Canada Media Fund
RBC Foundation
Inspirit Foundation
TD Ready Commitment
CBC
Canadian Heritage
Canadian Media Producers Association
Black Business Initiative
Canadian Race Relations Foundation
Creative BC
Ontario Creates
MPA Canada
Telefilm Canada
Bell Fund
Indigenous Screen Office

Land Acknowledgement

We would like to honour the land that we are on, which has been the site of human activity since time immemorial. The Black Screen Office HQ is located on the traditional territories of the Huron-Wendat, Anishinabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and most recently, The Mississaugas of the Credit River First Nations

Ontario is covered by 46 treaties and other agreements, and is home to many Indigenous Nations from across Turtle Island, including the Inuit and the Metis. These treaties and other agreements, including the One Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, are agreements to peaceably share and care for the land and its resources. Other Indigenous Nations, Europeans, and newcomers, were invited into this covenant in the spirit of respect, peace, and friendship. 

We are mindful of broken covenants and we strive to make this right, with the land and with each other. 

We are all Treaty people. Many of us, have come here as settlers, immigrants, newcomers in this generation or generations past. We would like to also acknowledge those of us who came here forcibly, particularly as a result of the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade. Therefore, we honour and pay tribute to the ancestors of African Origin and Descent