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Lana Lovell
Lana Lovell is a writer, producer and social entrepreneur using documentary, theatre, and digital media to create rich cultural experiences that portrays Black and diaspora cultures. She’s an emerging -playwright and producer, although an experienced documentary filmmaker. Her work reflects her experiences and concerns as a Black woman living in the world, from her play “Elbow Room,” to her latest project “The Sophia Pooley Years”. Lana’s documentaries have screened in national and international festivals including: African World Film Festival, Detroit Windsor International Film Festival, International Black Film Festival of Nashville, Urban MediaMakers Film Festival, International Black Film Festival (London, England), Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, Images and Toronto Hot Doc Film Festival.
The Sophia Pooley Years is an exploration of early Canadian history for Black women through a short multimedia presentation. The project is inspired by a 700-word narrative account of a real historical figure in Canada’s earliest colonial history: Sophia Pooley, an enslaved woman, in a time when women’s stories were not recorded, except when their lives converged with the stories of “great” men. Using Sophia Pooley’s story as a point of departure, this project collates and reimagines historical research that honours Black acts of resistance, survival and memory.