In Conversation with Amanda Parris
October 27, 2024 at 10am
TIFF Lightbox, 350 King St W, Toronto
Single tickets $36 + tax
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Amanda Parris is a critically acclaimed and award-winning writer, tv host and producer. Her theatre play OTHER SIDE OF THE GAME was published in 2019 and awarded the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama. Her short play THE DEATH NEWS won the 2022 Canadian Screen Award for Best Writing, Web Program or Series and was published in the anthology 21 Black Futures earlier this year.
For six seasons, she hosted the Canadian arts television series, CBC ARTS: EXHIBITIONISTS and was awarded the 2022 Canadian Screen Award for Best Host. Amanda is also the writer behind the award winning CBC Arts column BLACK LIGHT and the creator of the hit CBC Music R&B radio show MARVIN’S ROOM which she hosted for five years. Amanda is the creator and showrunner of the comedy series REVENGE OF THE BLACK BEST FRIEND. It was an official selection at the 2022 Canneseries Festival and won the 2023 Canadian Screen Award for Best Web Program or Series, Fiction. In 2024, she released the globe-trotting six part documentary series FOR THE CULTURE WITH AMANDA PARRIS on CBC Gem which she created, executive produced and hosts. Her short film THE DEATH DOULA won the 2021 Best Short Film Award at the Caribbean Tales International Film Festival.
Amanda received the inaugural Changemaker Award from the Canadian Screen Awards for her efforts to call out systemic racism in the Canadian media community and she was awarded the ACTRA Sandi Ross Award for her work in diversity and inclusion.
Prior to her shift into film and television, Amanda worked for years in community arts and education, co-founding the alternative education organization Lost Lyrics and working at The Remix Project and the Manifesto Festival. AMANDA PARRIS | Other Kinds of Dreams
