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Katia Café-Fébrissy aka KaFé, which loosely means “Doer” in Guadeloupean Creole, tells stories on screen and on stage. She’s a Toronto-based bilingual filmmaker and theatremaker exploring the themes of identity, sense of place and social justice in her work.

In 2023, she founded Ka-Fé Productions inc., and her current development slate includes a feature narrative supported by Telefilm, a fiction web series supported by Ontario Creates and a feature documentary.

KaFé likes to experiment with form and artistic genres. Her latest project, a short narrative, STILL WATERS (2023), which has been selected by several film festivals in Canada and abroad, is the cinematic adaptation of a play by the same title.

KaFé is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada (DGC), the French-language Writers Guild of Canada (SARTEC), the Playwrights Guild of Canada (PGC) and its francophone counterpart, Centre des Auteurs Dramatiques (CEAD). She holds a Masters in Documentary Filmmaking from the Varan Doc Film Centre, France and a Masters in Languages and Literature from the Université Paris VIII, France.

KaFé is the co-Chair of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee of the DGC Ontario Executive Board of Directors, and the Vice-President of the Francophone Media Arts Centre in Toronto (LABO).

When she’s not writing, directing, producing, facilitating DEI workshops or hosting podcasts for the DGC, she mentors emerging filmmakers for the Oya Black Arts Coalition, a charitable organization dedicated to increasing Black representation behind the camera.