Great news! yap films secured two major victories at the Canadian Screen Awards last night! Congratulations to Kenya-Jade Pinto & Erin Chisholm for taking home the Barbara Sears Award for Best Visual Research in Black Liberators WWII (Corus Entertainment) and to Elliott Halpern & Elizabeth Trojian for winning the Rob […]

Mark your calendars! The new yap films documentary Loons: A Cry From The Mist premieres on Cottage Life  Friday, November 18th at 8PM ET/PT The common loon has stirred our souls for thousands of years. But their numbers are in rapid decline. Why? Loons: A Cry from the Mist reveals the secret lives of loons and […]

Elizabeth Trojian is joined by How it Feels to be Free director Yoruba Richen and Executive Producers Lacey Swartz Delgado and Mehret Mandefro at AFS as cultural envoys doing diplomacy work for The U.S. Department of State.  AFS will include How it Feels to be Free in the 2022-2023 Year 10 diplomacy program. AFS […]

“It’s a scorcher, a fabulous journey to that place where art and activism meet in the stories of these Black women artists.” Check out the article here: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/article-catch-up-on-the-best-streaming-tv-of-2021-with-our-holiday-binge/

Director Yoruba Richen recently sat down to eTalk’s Tyrone Edwards to discuss the film “How It Feels to Be Free” Check it out here!

PBS’ American Masters documentary “How It Feels to Be Free” – which counts Alicia Keys among its roster of exec producers – salutes the careers of six Black female entertainers who used their celebrity to promote civil rights and challenge racists stereotypes. The documentary – which premieres today on PBS and is […]

Our The Nature of Things film The Day in the Life of Earth has won the Rob Stewart Award for Best Science or Nature documentary program or series at the Canadian Screen Awards! Check out Elliott & Elizabeth’s acceptance speeches below: Elliott Halpern, Executive Producer: https://vimeo.com/422634208 Elizabeth Trojian, Executive Producer: https://vimeo.com/422634285 […]

Yap Films has been nominated for 10 Canadian Screen Awards! Here is the list of nominations for CSAs 2020 Best History program or documentary  D Day in 14 stories Rob Stewart Award for Best Science or Nature documentary program or series A Day in the Life of Earth The Genetic […]