Roundtable Discussion: Ways to Bring About Lasting Diversity and Inclusion in the Canadian Entertainment Industry
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How can lasting change be implemented in the Canadian industry to ensure our entertainment media landscape reflects our inclusive society? How can talent behind and in front of the camera become more diverse? Join us for a candid roundtable discussion with independent production leaders about the challenges of working in the Canadian screen industry as an Indigenous person or person of colour, and, what changes they recommend on a structural level to have these issues addressed in a lasting way.
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SPEAKERS IN THIS SESSION
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Alison Duke / Producer and director
Alison Duke aka ‘Golde’ crafts dynamic stories for television that illuminate the arts, history and present-day social-political issues to push our culture forward. She has experience producing and directing episodic doc/factual series and her one-off directing credits include ‘Cool Black North’, ‘Positive Women: exposing injustice’, ‘A Deathly Silence’, and ‘Raising Kane: a rapumentary’. She earned two 2020 Canadian Screen Awards for co-writing and co-producing Mr. Jane and Finch and the 2020 Wiston M. Moxam Award at the Afro Prairie Film Festival for ‘Promise Me’ her powerful debut short fiction inspired by true events in the life of a woman living with HIV.
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