Black Ice
Film poster
Directed byHubert Davis
Written byHubert Davis
Based onBlack Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925 by Darril Fosty and George Fosty
Produced byVinay Virmani
CinematographyChris Romeike
Edited byEamonn O'Connor
Music bySimon Poole
Production
companies
First Take Entertainment
Uninterrupted Canada
Black Ice Productions
Distributed byElevation Pictures
Release date
  • September 10, 2022 (2022-09-10) (TIFF)
Running time
97 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
Box office$47,362[1]

Black Ice is a 2022 Canadian documentary film, directed by Hubert Davis and produced by Vinay Virmani.[2] Based in part on Darril Fosty and George Fosty's 2004 non-fiction book Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925, the film presents a history of the Coloured Hockey League of the Maritimes of the early 20th century, and the lingering history of anti-black racism in the sport of ice hockey.[3]

Executive producers of the film included Drake, LeBron James and Maverick Carter.[4]

The film premiered at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival,[5] where it was the winner of the People's Choice Award for Documentaries.[6]

The film was named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2022.[7]

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 96% of 26 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.5/10. The website's consensus reads: "Black Ice offers an enlightening -- and possibly enraging -- overview of institutional racism in professional hockey."[8] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 82 out of 100, based on five critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Black Ice". Retrieved July 28, 2023.
  2. ↑ Pat Mullen, "Hubert Davis’s Black Ice Leads Docs in TIFF Gala Announcement". Point of View, July 28, 2022.
  3. ↑ Alex Guye, "Documentary on the Maritimes' Coloured Hockey League to begin filming". CBC News Nova Scotia, September 7, 2021.
  4. ↑ Etan Vlessing, "LeBron James, Drake, Maverick Carter to Exec Produce Hockey Racial Reckoning Doc ‘Black Ice’". The Hollywood Reporter, July 29, 2021.
  5. ↑ Jeremy Kay, "Stephen Frears, Jessica Chastain, Jennifer Lawrence films among Toronto galas, special presentations". Screen Daily, July 28, 2022.
  6. ↑ Christian Zilko, "‘The Fabelmans’ Wins TIFF 2022 People’s Choice Award". IndieWire, September 18, 2022.
  7. ↑ Pat Mullen, "Three Feature Docs Make Canada’s Top Ten". Point of View, December 8, 2022.
  8. ↑ "Black Ice". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved November 16, 2023.
  9. ↑ "Black Ice". Metacritic. Retrieved July 27, 2023.


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