Canadian Actress Dayle McLeod is premiering her first documentary short funded by the Toronto Arts & Canada Council for the Arts, at the Black Lives Matter Wildseed Center in Toronto. The event includes a fireside chat on ancestral healing with the filmmaker and special guests; black/trans activists Ravyn Wngs and playwright/sangoma Mkhulu Samson Ingwe on Thursday February 5, 2026.
The 40 min personal documentary follows Dayle to her ancestral lands of South Africa to live under the strict and sometimes brutal tutelage of elder Sangomas (female traditional shamanic practitioners) who put her through the ancient rites of passage of her people.
Shot on her iphone, viewers witness Dayle’s inspiring and emotional journey through the pain of initiation, transcending past demons and rewriting her own story. Day of my Death illustrates the power of ancestral re-connection and challenges viewers to consider the demands of their own ancestry in times of trouble.
Feedback from BIPOC queer people on a spiritual journey & esteemed colleagues in the filmmaking world (such as Phil Borges, who made the doc CrazyWise) have described it as powerful, emotional, creative and profound.
View the Trailer and Get Tickets at www.DayOfMyDeathDocumentary.com
Dayle McLeod (Makhosi Nyoga Yomfula) is a de-colonial dream weaver using performance, Storytelling, Poetry, Music & film to inspire visions of what liberation could look like.
As an actor you’ve seen her on Amazon’s ‘The Expanse’, the CW’s ‘Burden of Truth’ & ‘The L.A Complex’. She can be seen next in the’ Orphan Black’ reboot, ‘Echos’, the Toronto edition of ‘Law and Order’.
Her folk music albums ‘In Bloom’ and ‘Snakes’ have been featured in a number of film and television productions including CTV’s ‘Kims Convenience’, Mary Harron’s film; ‘Charlie Says’ and Sam Coyle’s award winning web series ‘Avocado Toast’.
Her memoir ‘The Big Dream; My Terrifyingly Beautiful Shamanic Initiation into the Arts’ tells the story of her calling illness and how she came to shamanic medicine.
To Learn more about Dayle’s work visit www.DayleMcLeod.com
