by Victoria Ahearn
The planned bilingual anthology series Festivale, by and about Black Canadians, will also serve as an incubator supported by the Black Screen Office.
Bell Media has teamed up with an all-Black executive production team to develop what’s billed as Canada’s first bilingual anthology series, by and about Black Canadians.
The six-part Festivale is in pre-development for Crave and will also serve as a pre-development incubator administered by the Black Screen Office for creative teams who have not had the opportunity to produce content for a large network.
The series is a collaboration between Crave’s French and English development teams as well as francophone executive producers Marie Ka and Richard Jean-Baptiste, and anglophone executive producers Damon D’Oliveira and Clement Virgo.