Recommended readings & Viewings

ANTI-RACISM RESOURCES

ARTICLES/VIDEOS

• A Brief, Convoluted History of the Word ‘Intersectionality’, The Cut
• Anti-Racism Daily Newsletter by Nicole Cardoza
• On Seeing and Being Seen: Writing with Empathy and Writing with Love, Alicia Elliott, Room Magazine
• The Skin We're In,  Documentary - Acclaimed journalist Desmond Cole explores what it is to be Black in 21st century Canada. Do Black Lives Matter here? Directed by Charles Officer

ANTI-RACISM BOOKS

• A Stranger's Journey: Race, Identity, & Narrative Craft in Writing by David Mura,
• Critical Creative Writing: Essential Readings on the Writer's Craft  by Janelle Adsit,
• How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
• Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• Writing Intersectional Identities: Keywords for Creative Writers, by Janelle Adsit  and Renée M. Byrd

SCREENWRITING BOOKS

• Invisible Ink by Brian McDonald
• Making A Good Script Great by Linda Seger
• Save the Cat by Blake Snider
• Screenplay by Syd Field
• Screenwriting 434 by Lew Hunter
• Story by Robert McKee
• The Art of Dramatic Writing by Lajos Egri
• The Coffee Break Screenwriter by Pilar Alessandra
• The Hollywood Standard by Christopher Riley
• The Secret of Life through Screenwriting by Joy Cheriel Brown
• The Sequence Approach by Paul Joseph Gulino
• The Writer’s Journey by Christopher Vogler
• Writing Screenplays That Sell by Michael Hague

ON CREATIVITY

• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott, 1995

 RESOURCES/LINKS

• 5 Films to Indigenize your watch-at-Home movie list
• 50 Years of Indigenous-Made Cinema in Canada
• A guide to essential, underrated, and flat-out extraordinary films by black women directors
• Great Women Animators (Canadian, 1900 to present)
• IsumaTV is a collaborative multimedia platform for Indigenous filmmakers and media organizations.