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2025 CBC News + Film Honours

Posted by wadmin on Aug 24, 2025 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Cross-posted: Edition 97 CMCS Media & Festival – Aug 30 Hope August started well! I am pleased to update that views from the Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) on former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry have been covered on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Radio. My guest, David Frasser, a privacy lawyer, and I were invited to contribute our ethical views about the public figures to the CBC live show Alberta at Noon on August 7: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-1-alberta-at-noon/clip/16162549-is-anything-private-public-figure...

Protected: A Library of Rumba (2025) – Poem

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Butterfly (2025) – Film

Posted by wadmin on Jan 12, 2025 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Butterfly (2025) Hope 2025 started well for all! My New Year started with a brand new short, Butterfly (2025), that blurs the boundaries between commercial art and education within and beyond the studies of film stardom, which is my PhD research area. I specifically start with a question to further cinematic practices: can theatrical and poetic spaces co-exist using a choreographic approach? Watch, share, and read about the Butterfly to find out more! ABOUT THE FILM Tagline: By day, she follows the rules. By night, she follows her rhythm. Logline: A disillusioned office worker in Portugal...

Windows (2024) – Film

Posted by wadmin on Aug 19, 2023 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Windows (2024) A film by Krystof KeshavProduction House: Sene LisboaMedia and Public Relations: CMCS Media WINDOWS-Press-Kit Download ABOUT THE FILM Tagline: A Bengali short with a universal twist Logline: When a woman is stood up, she considers all the opportunities opening up to herself. Synopsis: In the independent short film, Windows, the protagonist Amrita is a single professional woman. She returns home after an ordinary day of work, but plans an extraordinary moment with a date that night. Her mundane tasks prepare for a special moment of romance until her hopes are shattered. When...

Op-Ed Publication – Feminism in India (FII)

Posted by wadmin on Feb 2, 2019 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

I am honoured to share that Feminism in India (FII) just published my op-ed essay – incredibly proud of the Delhi-based women’s magazine that takes actions and gives voices to violent issues within and beyond India. My huge thanks go to the editorial team for publishing this critical piece. I also received supportive thoughts from Mumbai Press Club at a time when actress Tanushree Dutta started the #MeToo Movement in India. The highlighted section (below) is one of the posts that FII tweeted. You can read the complete article...

Stepping into 2019 – What’s Moving You?

Posted by wadmin on Dec 23, 2018 in Blog, Critic's Area, Uncategorized | 0 comments

Hope the Brazilian Samba in the video moved you! But that’s not it. For me, there is more… It’s feminist freedom – the freedom in feminist storytelling – that has moved me across borders, literally and metaphorically, in the last 2.5 months. I just came back from a 10-week journey with my carry-on luggage across India and Portugal – yes, I travel light! But that has enabled me to rush to multiple locations that needed my activist voice. Was it easy? NO! If you have followed my Instagram, I was in high-risk situations day and night but stood firm as a woman. And I am so incredibly proud...