Katia Café-Fébrissy

Katia Café-Fébrissy aka KaFé, which loosely means “Doer” in Guadeloupean Creole, tells stories on screen and on stage. She’s a Toronto-based bilingual filmmaker and theatremaker exploring the themes of identity, sense of place and social justice in her work.

KaFé likes to experiment with form and artistic genres. For instance, her latest project STILL WATERS (2023), which had its World Premiere at the Reelout Queer Film Festival 2024 and its Toronto Premiere at the Canadian Film Fest 2024, is the cinematic adaptation of a play by the same title.

ÇA RIME AVEC VINAIGRE, the French version of her upcoming solo show RHYMES WITH VINEGAR was recently presented at the National Arts Centre as part of the Zones Théâtrales Festival 2023.

KaFé is a member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada (PGC), the Directors Guild of Canada (DGC), the French-language Writers Guild of Canada (SARTEC) and the Centre des Auteurs Dramatiques (CEAD). She holds a Masters degree in Documentary Filmmaking from the Varan Doc Film Centre, France and a Masters degree in Languages and Literature from the Université Paris VIII, France.

KaFé is the co-Chair of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee of the DGC Ontario Executive Board of Directors, and the Vice-President of the Francophone Media Arts Centre in Toronto (LABO). Besides, when she’s not writing, directing, producing, facilitating DEI workshops or hosting podcasts for the DGC, she mentors emerging filmmakers for the Oya Black Arts Coalition, a charitable organisation dedicated to increasing Black representation behind the camera.