The Leak (2022) – Film
Welcome to THE LEAK (2022)! Official page: The Leak (2022) | CMCS (cmc-centre.com) From the Medium:https://medium.com/@cmcs/the-leak-2022-can-we-bring-bipoc-women-to-the-forefront-of-the-screen- a95494d2ca96 They started dating based on lies, but they liked each other even more when they found out. That’s the synopsis of the independent short film, THE LEAK (2022) — a romantic comedy with a few twists! In this film, I play the role of Mona, who is stressed and in a hurry. What is she running away from? She is a lawyer with a secret. The director and my co-writer, Louis Massey, plays out...
Read MoreLife of an Actor vs Film Star – 5 Lessons
Life of an Actor vs Film Star – 5 Lessons I am super excited for my short film “The Leak” (2022) that just released on the site of the film director, also my life partner. Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn2FY8sdQKU As the short releases, I get flashes of what a theatrical release would look like for a film star: Red carpet reception Media interviews Photoshoots for magazine Once upon a time, I experienced glamorous events and just got honored as a “Celebrity Scholar” in CBC National News. Here is a clip: https://www.instagram.com/p/CdLqt90KoJj/ But that was just a...
Read MoreEntertainment vs Information in Popular Culture
A huge thanks to new readers for joining my social media. Special thanks to Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) media expert and social media manager Christine Bode for her insightful and inspiring comments on the posts always. Gratitude also goes to former CMCS seminar “Moving Forward” panelist and Ryerson University’s Sal Greco for his opinions on my latest interview in Humber News. Here’s what Sal has to say about the Jimmy Kimmel’s Show video that I mentioned in the interview: “Upon seeing the video shown on the Jimmy Kimmel Show, that...
Read MoreLatest Publications on Persona and Celebrity
Dear Readers, I am pleased to announce that my latest chapter on persona, celebrity activism, and selfies has been published in the edited book Mobile and Digital Communication: Approaches to Public and Private. The chapter shows how we can strengthen the use of selfies and other representations of persona in celebrity activism. Receive a copy of the book at http://www.livroslabcom.ubi.pt/book/141#sthash.7VjSBxlh.A6VyZKyZ.dpuf. Special thanks to editors José Ricardo Carvalheiro and Ana Serrano Tellería for the book. I am also honoured to be mentioned in the edited book Bridging Gaps: Higher...
Read MoreBridging Gaps: Higher Education, Media and Society
Call for Papers In higher education, media studies bring critical awareness of representations and reproductions of popular personas, artefacts, processes, and practices in social, economic, and political contexts. From the perspective of cultural studies, critical discourse analysis of media productions enables scholars to go beyond observing aesthetic aspects and to understand social underpinnings of cultural productions. In a similar fashion, journalism can use investigation to educate and inform the public on the limits and potentials of social systems. Journalistic publications can...
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