2023 Canadian Screen Awards.

NOMINEE
Best History Documentary Program or Series

WHERE TO WATCH

Esi Edugyan: Out of the Sun, The CBC Massey Lectures

Synopsis:

Esi Edugyan: Out of the Sun, The CBC Massey Lectures is a visually stunning one-hour special from award-winning author, Esi Edugyan, that delivers a time-traversing cultural critique of the way Black people are represented in art and storytelling. This television adaptation of Edugyan’s CBC Massey Lectures brings viewers on an artful and socially urgent journey from eighteenth century portraiture to contemporary pop culture, from medieval Japan to Hollywood movies, intertwined with personal reflections of a life growing up in Canada as a child of immigrants from Ghana. Recorded in the Royal Theatre in Victoria, B.C., with visual projections and music that bring this CBC original production to life.

Nominees:

Catherine Legge, Esi Edugyan, Greg Kelly, Romilla Karnick, Ebyan Abdigir

Channel:

CBC

Broadcaster:

CBC

Production Company:

CBC


Esi Edugyan: Out of the Sun, The CBC Massey Lectures

Synopsis:

Esi Edugyan: Out of the Sun, The CBC Massey Lectures is a visually stunning one-hour special from award-winning author, Esi Edugyan, that delivers a time-traversing cultural critique of the way Black people are represented in art and storytelling. This television adaptation of Edugyan’s CBC Massey Lectures brings viewers on an artful and socially urgent journey from eighteenth century portraiture to contemporary pop culture, from medieval Japan to Hollywood movies, intertwined with personal reflections of a life growing up in Canada as a child of immigrants from Ghana. Recorded in the Royal Theatre in Victoria, B.C., with visual projections and music that bring this CBC original production to life.

Nominees:

Catherine Legge, Esi Edugyan, Greg Kelly, Romilla Karnick, Ebyan Abdigir

Channel:

CBC

Broadcaster:

CBC

Production Company:

CBC

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