Shelley Fashan, left, and Tara Taylor are the founders of the Emerging Lens Film Festival.

Festival for Black Nova Scotian filmmakers back on stage for this spring

A film festival created for Black Nova Scotian filmmakers is now open for submissions and its organizer hopes the event will go ahead without COVID restrictions for the first time since 2019.

The Emerging Lens Film Festival is now in its 13th year. Co-founder Shelley Fashan said the idea for the festival first came about in 2010 when she attended the screening of a documentary by East Preston filmmaker Tara Taylor, who eventually became Emerging Lens’ other co-founder.

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