Jennifer Hodge de Silva

Jennifer Hodge de Silva

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Black Canadian filmmaker. Died of cancer at the age of 38.

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Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community 1983

This feature documentary takes us to the heart of the Jane-Finch "Corridor" in the early 1980s. Covering six square blocks in Toronto's North York, the area readily evokes images of vandalism, high-density subsidized housing, racial tension, despair and crime. By focusing on the lives of several of the residents, many of them black or members of other visible minorities, the film provides a powerful view of a community that, contrary to its popular image, is working towards a more positive future.
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Joe David: Spirit of the Mask 1982

A look at West Coast Native artist Joe David—his personal reflections and scenes from his life. Follows the creative process of carving and finishing a magnificent wolf headdress from a block of cedar to its ultimate use as a ceremonial mask worn by the artist himself in a haunting dance which ends the film.