Our Team

Leadership Team

Tse Daniel

Tse Daniel

Director of Operations

Morgan Blades

Morgan Blades

Director of Programming & Events

Teneica Toban

Teneica Toban

Head of Digital Strategy

Advisory Board

Meredith Best

Meredith Best

Assistant Director, Innovation & Entrepreneurship at the University of Toronto Scarborough

Vanessa Craft

Vanessa Craft

Global Head of Content Partnerships, TikTok

Alica Hall

Alica Hall

Executive Director of Nia Centre

Wes Hall

Wes Hall

Executive Chairman and Founder, Kingsdale Advisors, and the Founder and Chair of the BlackNorth Initiative

Jennifer Holness

Jennifer Holness

Board Chair of the Black Screen Office and the President of Hungry Eyes Media

Randy Lennox

Randy Lennox

Founder / CEO LOFT Entertainment

Divya Shahani

Divya Shahani

Partner and Head of the entertainment, media, and sports law group at Wildeboer Dellelce LLP

Tonya Williams

Tonya Williams

Award-winning actress, producer, and the founder and executive director of the Reelworld Film Festival and Reelworld Screen Institute

We acknowledge the land we are meeting on is the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. We also acknowledge that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit.