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Kayla Keip 5/27/22 Kayla Keip 5/27/22

A second life: Welcome to the metaverse, the next frontier in filmmaking

Participants in the OYA Scale-Up Initiative work on an immersive media project. The program is a partnership between OYA Black Arts and CFC Media Lab and is funded by the Federal Development Agency of Southern Ontario. (David Peddie/OYA Black Arts Coalition)

Kayla Keip 3/14/22 Kayla Keip 3/14/22

Producing Authentically Black Stories with Oya Media Group

Alison and Ngardy founded OYA Media Group to bring an authentic perspective to media through socially relevant, life-changing stories that amplify Black experiences. Their documentary Mr. Jane & Finch, which they co-produced and Ngardy directed, premiered on CBC Docs POV in 2019 and won two Canadian Screen Awards.

Kayla Keip 3/14/22 Kayla Keip 3/14/22

Ngardy Conteh George, producer of the Chloe Cooley Heritage Minute on Good Morning Hamilton

Check out the link to hear Ngardy on Good Morning Hamilton

Kayla Keip 11/24/21 Kayla Keip 11/24/21

Oya Media Group celebrated for entrepreneurship, paying it forward

BY ZEENYA SHAH

The founders focus on lifting up other Black-owned businesses while looking for partners to grow their own award-winning prodco.

Guest User 9/28/20 Guest User 9/28/20

Perspectives: Week 1 - Tackling Theme

Article courtesy of povmagazine.com

Jamal joins filmmakers Yung Chang, Ngardy Conteh George, and Baljit Sangra to learn how they capture the thematic characters of their documentaries through artistic, narrative, and technical choices.

Kai Gaspard 8/17/20 Kai Gaspard 8/17/20

The Power of Two

article courtesy of liisbeth.com
by Meral Mohammad Jamal

Five thousand.

That’s roughly how many hours of film that Winston LaRose had in his personal archives when filmmaker Ngardy Conteh George met up with him to research a documentary she was making.