CBC, BIPOC TV & Film, CFC announce participants of 2025 Showrunner Catalyst program

CBC, BIPOC TV & Film and the Canadian Film Centre (CFC) announced Wednesday the three participants for the third year of the CBC-BIPOC TV & Film Showrunner Catalyst program. This program is “the only accelerator program in Canada that is focused on elevating senior writers who identify as Indigenous, Black or People of Colour to showrunner status through hands-on and personally tailored experiences in prep, on-set and post that empower and elevate skills and knowledge base,” reads a CBC press release. The participants for the third and final year of the program, now underway until the fall of 2025, are Lakna Edirisinghe,...