Friday, April 29 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
The Khyber – 1588
Barrington Street
WIFT-AT members – FREE
Non-WIFT-AT members – $6
Women in Film and Television Atlantic & Carbon Arc are pleased to invite you to the continuation of our monthly social screenings, Reel Talk: Conversations with Women in Film and Television. On the last Friday of every month we feature an interview with a veteran or emerging film or television professional and view some of their work. Afterwards, we invite you to have a drink and get to know each other.
This month our guest is Rita Shelton Deverell. Filmmaker Eva Madden will host a conversation with Rita, discuss her prolific career and show clips of her work. We hope you will join us! Reel Talk – with Rita Shelton Deverell
Rita Shelton Deverell is a producer, playwright, host, and performer, journalist, and scholar. She is the current occupant of Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies at Mount St. Vincent University, her two-year term ending in June, 2011. Dr. Deverell was the first woman to lead a journalism program in Canada in her position as Director of the School of Journalism at the University of Regina in the 1980s. In 1988, she responded to the need for more diverse television by co-founding Vision TV, a multi-faith and multicultural broadcaster. One of the reasons Rita helped to build the channel because of the hurdles and obstacles she and some of her colleagues faced in the broadcasting industry. She was also head of News and Current Affairs at Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, mentoring her Aboriginal successor, and has produced/hosted/executive produced a couple of thousand current affairs shows over the years.
Deverell has also been recognized for her work by the Maclean’s Honour Roll of Outstanding Canadians and was inducted into the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame. She was awarded the prestigious Order of Canada in 2005, two Gemini Awards, and was recently honoured with the Leadership Award of the Black Women’s Civic Engagement Network. Since 2005 Rita has written four theatre titles and produced and directed eight television dramas. In January 2011 she was appointed a Trudeau Foundation Mentor for 18 months, making this her first “retirement” project. This weekend she leaves for Toronto to perform her one-woman play Smoked Glass Ceiling in the “bcurrent festival”, the 10th. anniversary of this showcase of African-disaspora drama.
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