Radio / Television News

BIPOC TV & Film and Bell Media launch HireBIPOC

TORONTO – BIPOC TV & Film and Bell Media announced last week the first initiative resulting from their new partnership, a web portal to generate increased employment of Black, Indigenous, and people of colour working in the Canadian media industry. Launching later this summer, HireBIPOC “will become an industry-wide roster of BIPOC crew and creatives working in screen-based industries available for Canadian productions and media companies to hire. It will facilitate and increase BIPOC hiring in Canadian media and entertainment in roles across all areas of the industry, including production (above and below the line), behind the scenes, communications and...