Jennifer Hodge de Silva was a director and producer who became the first Black filmmaker to direct a film for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). Her work frequently explored the Black and immigrant experience in Canada. In 1983, her film Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community, co-directed with Roger McTair, became the first NFB film made by a Black filmmaker about Black communities.
Films:
Canada Vignettes: Helen Law (1979)
Toronto’s Ethnic Police Squad (1979)
Myself Yourself (1980)
Joe David: Spirit of the Mask (1982)
Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community (1983)