One of the “three primary pillars” of this program, along with “celebrating diverse storytellers and audiences and creating opportunities for creators who are Black, Indigenous, people of colour,” is said to be “challenging the status quo.” ![]() This is the beginning of a journey to highlight the stories that may have previously been untold and address the reasons for their erasure.” We cannot be the only ones to find this type of language insufferable. Seventy-five percent of Industry Conference speakers identify as Black, Indigenous, or a person of colour. ![]() This year the festival announced “Every Story,” a fund “to support and celebrate film’s under-represented voices and audiences.” It is intended to create opportunities for “equity-seeking creators.” A press release explained that 76 “of this year’s Festival selections were either created or co-created by cisgender or transgender women, or non-binary or two-spirit filmmakers. The Toronto festival has launched various initiatives aimed, it asserts, at promoting “diversity, equity, and inclusion in film.” “Share Her Journey,” begun in 2017, is a “campaign and commitment to address gender parity and championing women in front of and behind the camera.” Festival organizers envision it as part of a “global movement … dedicated to building frameworks, empowering creators, and forging paths for women to succeed as storytellers who help shape our cultural landscape.” In effect, de facto quotas along these lines have increasingly been established. However, to a certain comfortably off, aspiring social layer, the question of questions involves race and gender. Social inequality, accelerated and amplified by a horrific pandemic, dominates every corner of the globe and a handful of conglomerates and billionaires relentlessly strengthens its grip on economic life. The first part was posted September 21.Īs part of a general trend, the Toronto film festival and other such events have become officially mesmerized in recent years by identity politics. This is the second in a series of articles devoted to the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival (September 9-18).
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