Spring 2026 Film Series
UNSETTLED: Weaving Worlds
Our Spring series brings together films that consider racial histories, land back, settler colonialism and Indigenous rights woven across geographies and time.
Sunday February 1 at 4pm
Doors at 3:30; Entrance by donation
Post Screening Discussion: Wayne Dunkley
Mighty Jerome (2010, 1:24)
Director: Charles Officer
https://www.nfb.ca/film/mighty_jerome/
From acclaimed filmmaker Charles Officer comes the story of the rise, fall and redemption of Harry Jerome, Canada’s most record-setting track and field star. Gorgeous monochrome imagery, impassioned interviews and astonishing archival footage are used to tell the triumphant and compelling story of what Harry Jerome’s own coach called “the greatest comeback in track and field history.”
The rise, fall, and redemption of African-Canadian track legend Harry Jerome (1940−1982), a kid from North Vancouver who became the fastest man on the planet, is recounted in this artful documentary directed by noted Jamaican-Canadian filmmaker Charles Officer (Nurse.Fighter.Boy, Unarmed Verses). The film, shot in gorgeous black and white, employs archival footage, personal interviews, stylized re-enactments, and period music to tell Jerome’s remarkable story; it also examines how issues of race and the era’s civil rights movement played out in Jerome’s sometimes turbulent life. Vancouver-based Trinidadian-Canadian filmmaker Selwyn Jacob (The Road Taken), whose projects often explores the experiences of Black Canadians, was producer.
Upcoming Films:
March 1: No Other Land (2024, 1:32)
April 12: The Stand (2024, 1:34)
May 3: Loretta Todd: A Spotlight (curated with Kamala Todd)