Maya Cade, visionary creator and curator of Black Film Archive — a living digital catalogue that showcases Black films made from 1898 to 1989 currently available on streaming platforms — joins us for a special screening of Black Mother Black Daughter, curated by Cade, and a conversation about preserving, celebrating, and expanding access to Black film history online. This event is presented in collaboration with the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
Maya S. Cade is the creator and curator of Black Film Archive ― a first-of-its-kind digital archive likened to be the definitive history of Black cinema by Slate.com ― and a scholar-in-residence at the Library of Congress. Cade is an award-winning curator, writer, and archivist receiving special distinctions from the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Society of Film Critics, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, and the Online Film Critics Society. Originally hailing from New Orleans, Cade is based in Brooklyn.
A screening of Claire Prieto and Sylvia Hamilton’s Black Mother Black Daughter will be followed by a talk with Maya and Sarah-Tai Black and cultural preservation and community healing through film.
Sarah-Tai Black is a film programmer and critic living in Toronto. Their work centres on visual media and art-making with an emphasis on Black, queer, trans, and disabled futures. They regularly contribute film criticism to the Los Angeles Times and The Globe and Mail; they currently work as International Programmer, Mid-Lengths at Hot Docs International Film Festival; and they have been the programmer of Black Gold ― a semi-monthly screening series in Toronto dedicated to Black life on screen ― since 2017. Black’s work has appeared on platforms such as Berlinale Forum, MUBI Notebook, CBC Arts, Cinema Scope, Variety, Harper’s Bazaar, and Refinery29. They recently appeared as a co-host of Netflix Film’s YouTube series Black Film School, and they have worked as a part of the TIFF, Vancouver Queer Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Images Festival, and True/False Film Festival programming teams. In 2021, they were a Curatorial Fellow at the Flaherty Film Seminar.