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TORONTO - Diligent wordsmith, artist, author, and director Ian Keteku spares no effort to ensure that you understand the meaning behind his CBC Gem animated ...

“But the timing is serendipitous with more Black-centred programming and creators being given these opportunities even if there’s so much more work to do.” "But my friends said that maybe I just resented the fact that I was allowed to talk about it even though your whole life you were told otherwise. Aden says that for a good deal of her life, she struggled with identity as a biracial person while succumbing to overthinking. “It’s an entirely different way for the messages, symbolism, and metaphors to be absorbed.” “The animation really took me aback, because sometimes when you write something, it can feel like a very lonely experience,” says Mohamed who was asked by Keteku to join the series. Through the union of rotoscope and 2D animation styles alongside poetry, the intent behind each animated short is to allow a new generation of creatives to be heard in a manner that feels as current as their expressed ideas.