Press & AWARDS
blk won 5 csas in 2023!
Best Direction, Documentary Series - Jennifer Holness
Best Writing, Documentary - Sudz Sutherland
Best Photography, Documentary or Factual - Ricardo Diaz
Best Picture Editing, Documentary - Avrïl Jacobson
Best Original Music, Documentary - Tom Third
PRESS
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To Kill a Tiger, BLK Lead Canadian Screen Awards Doc Winners
APRIL 11, 2023
Non-fiction takes early lead in Canadian Screen Week
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‘BLK: An Origin Story’ takes home five Canadian Screen Awards on first day
APRIL 11, 2023
A docuseries exploring the untold stories of Black Canadians was among the big winners Tuesday at the Canadian Screen Awards.
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'BLK: An Origin Story' takes home five Canadian Screen Awards on first day
APRIL 12, 2023
A docuseries exploring the untold stories of Black Canadians was among the big winners Tuesday at the Canadian Screen Awards.
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Michelle Levy Spotlights: A Look Back at the Canadian Screen Awards
MAY 22, 2023
At The News, Documentary & Factual Awards, BLK: An Origin Story took home five Canadian Screen Awards.
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2023 Canadian Screen Awards: News, Documentary & Factual Awards winners
APRIL 11, 2023
Among the evening’s multiple award winners were History docuseries BLK: An Origin Story, which picked up a leading five awards…
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The Creative School celebrates 13 wins at the 2023 Canadian Screen Awards
MAY 9, 2023
Faculty and alumni honoured for their creativity in TV, film and digital media…
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‘BLK: An Origin Story’ takes home five Canadian Screen Awards on first day
APRIL 12, 2023
A docuseries exploring the untold stories of Black Canadians was among the big winners Tuesday at the Canadian Screen Awards…
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‘The Porter,’ ‘Sort Of’ and Clement Virgo’s ‘Brother’ Lead 2023 Canadian Screen Awards
APRIL 14, 2023
Other notable winners included Corus’s “BLK: An Origin Story”…
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BLK: AN ORIGIN STORY REVIEW
2022
Learning about the Underground Railroad is one thing, but there’s a rich and complicated background at play when it comes to Black Canadians in history…
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BLK: An Origin Story Makes an Untold History Known
APRIL 5, 2022
As a Black Canadian with Caribbean heritage, I know some of my family’s origins, coming from India, Africa, the Indigenous tribes of the Caribbean and white colonialists…
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John 'Daddy' Hall story gets a national audience
MARCH 23, 2022
The story of John “Daddy” Hall has made it to prime time, a place the former Owen Sound resident has long deserved to be according to the director of a new four-part documentary series airing on national television…
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Owen Sound's John "Daddy" Hall on BLK: An Origin Story
MARCH 16, 2022
Owen Sound's John "Daddy" Hall is the subject of the next episode of BLK: An Origin Story…
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“BLK: An origin story” brings to light the hidden history of Canada’s Black communities
Throughout Canada’s long history, it has prided itself with the fact that the multiculturalism mosaic has built this country, and is one of the distinctions that it is widely known for…
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Brownstein: Little Burgundy's glory days live again in documentary
MARCH 10, 2022
“Montreal is known internationally for our culture, in no small part due to the contributions of Black Quebecers,” Marlene Jennings says in the Little Burgundy episode of BLK: An Origin Story, airing Friday on Global TV.
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HISTORY® AND HUNGRY EYES MEDIA PRESENT A GROUNDBREAKING EXPLORATION OF CANADA’S BLACK HISTORY IN BLK: AN ORIGIN STORY, PREMIERING SATURDAY FEBRUARY 26 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
JANUARY 13, 2022
The Four-Part Limited Documentary Series Discusses the Fundamental History of Black Canadians.
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Jamaican-Canadian Film-makers create Black History series
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
Toronto Film-Makers Jennifer Holness and Sudz Sutherland will be emphasising to their audience that Black History is Canadian History in new series ‘BLK: An Origin Story’ that will e aired on the History channel starting the last weekend of February…
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Black Canada Talking
FEBRUAR 20, 2022
On today’s edition of Black Canada Talking™, the scheduled guests are: Jennifer Holness and Sudz Sutherland of Hungry Eyes Media.
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New four-part docuseries about the historic impact of Black presence in Canada
JANUARY 25, 2022
HISTORY® and Hungry Eyes Media Group announce the groundbreaking four-part docuseries, BLK: An Origin Story, premiering Saturday, February 26 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
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HISTORY AND HUNGRY EYES MEDIA PRESENT A GROUNDBREAKING EXPLORATION OF CANADA’S BLACK HISTORY IN BLK: AN ORIGIN STORY, PREMIERING FEBRUARY 26
JANUARY 14, 2022
HISTORY® and Hungry Eyes Media Group announce the groundbreaking four-part docuseries, BLK: An Origin Story, premiering Saturday, February 26 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
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Black Canada Talking: Dr. Vibe Hosts the Executive Producers of ‘BLK: An Origin Story’
FEBRUARY 27, 2022
Sutherland and Holness bring a fresh, authentic perspective to telling powerful, thought-provoking stories.
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Interview: An Honest Conversation with Director Sudz Sutherland About Why We Don’t Know Canadian Black History
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
It was never my intention to start my interview with director Sudz Sutherland by admitting my suppressed feelings of shame around Black history, but a couple minutes into our conversation, and suddenly I felt my confession would be heard in a safe place.
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How Black Is Your TV? Power Couple Bridges The Gap With New Documentary
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Hungry Eyes Media is a Toronto-based film production company created by husband and wife Jennifer Holness, Sudz Sutherland, and their talented team.
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History Channel series ‘BLK: An Origin Story’ to explore stories of Black Canadians
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
Jen Holness and Sudz Sutherland, executive producers of BLK: An Origin Story, join Global News Morning Edmonton to preview the new series on The History Channel.
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Untold stories of Black Canadians
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
BLK: An Origin Story is steeped in riveting, enduring, and multi-faceted historical Black Canadian narratives.
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Recognition of Black Canadian history
FEBRUARY 20, 2022
Even when Black people and their stories are shown as an integral part of Canada, Nelson said, it is almost in the context of slavery and the Underground Railroad.
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New programming for Black History Month
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
BLK: An Origin Story (Feb. 26, History): The four-part documentary series discusses the rich and varied history of Black Canadians.
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Canadian Black history illuminated in new four-part docuseries
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
“BLK: An Origin Story” tells the stories of the unsung heroes, segregation and enslavement in a nation that’s propagated a half-truth tale of refuge and equity.
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Film and TV producer Jennifer Holness getting the recognition she deserves
Holness and Sutherland co-created ‘BLK: An Origin Story’ that’s a four-part series exploring untold stories of Black Canadians…
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HISTORY® AND HUNGRY EYES MEDIA PRESENT A GROUNDBREAKING EXPLORATION OF CANADA'S BLACK HISTORY IN BLK: AN ORIGIN STORY, PREMIERING SATURDAY FEBRUARY 26 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
JANUARY 13, 2022
The Four-Part Limited Documentary Series Discusses the Fundamental History of Black Canadians.