After a year in the making, we are proud to release our inaugural documentary: Working While Black: The phenomenon of walking through the door.
This documentary shares the very real and unfiltered testimonies of Black Canadian professionals and scholars who intimately describe the subtlety and scars of systemic racism.
Directed by Fateh Ahmed, these emotional accounts and stories reveal how anti-Black racism on the job can manifests itself—creating a hostile environment that brings about daily psychological and physical distress.
Travelling from Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario to Alberta, viewers are left with a national perspective that challenges us to find practical and meaningful solutions to help tackle this seldom talked about but real phenomenon.
This project was funded by the Ministry of Canadian Heritage
Directed by Fateh Ahmed, these emotional accounts and stories reveal how anti-Black racism on the job can manifests itself—creating a hostile environment that brings about daily psychological and physical distress.
Travelling from Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario to Alberta, viewers are left with a national perspective that challenges us to find practical and meaningful solutions to help tackle this seldom talked about but real phenomenon.
“This movie really resonated with me. Their stories were emotional and powerful. Just about every Black person who has ever worked in Canada can relate to this [film] at some point in their career.”
– Ayesha, Entrepreneur, Montreal –
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Working While Black
The phenomenon of walking through the door
“Immigrants like myself who have chosen a Country to live in want to know that when they come into these workspaces when they’ve left their countries, when they’ve done all this hard work to get here, whatever here is, they will be protected. So where is the protection around the human spirit that shows up at work? Where is the care? Where is empathy?”
Claudia Warrington
“I decided to be a part of this documentary because, after the experience of taking my concerns to my employer about racial inequities, it became clear to me that they had no actual systems in place to deal proficiently with racism in the workplace….. I’m hoping this documentary will help to facilitate easier conversations about racism in the workplace.”
Randon Wright
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