The Centre for Creative Communications is pleased to announce the appointment of producer, director, writer and theatre artist Dr. Rita Shelton Deverell as its first Storyteller-in-Residence at the School of Communications, Media and Design at Centennial College. Deverell will provide storytelling expertise to all programs at the School of Communications, Media and Design, located at The Centre for Creative Communications, and will be recognized with the world premiere screening of Not a Drop, a new one-hour docu-drama set in a fictionalized University Diversity Journalism Class is based on real events, on: - Friday Dec. 5, 2008, at 11:30 a.m, at The Centre for Creative Communications
"Storytelling is the alpha and omega," Deverell says. "And I am pleased to find myself at the cross-section of communications, media and design worlds at Centennial College." Commissioned by OMNI, Not a Drop will be broadcast on OMNI in 2oo9 is a docu-drama, with drama portions shot at Centennial College @Wallace Studios and documentary portions on location at the Walpole Island First Nation exploring subject matter is the aftermath of Katrina and disposable peoples in Canada. Deverell got her start in television in 1972 when she helped to create a very successful children's program called All In a Tube on private TV stations. Since then, she's been an on-air journalist, a producer, a university professor, a social activist, a mentor and a visionary television pioneer. In 1974, she joined the CBC, eventually becoming a producer/host of COC Access. In 1983, Rita joined the University of Regina's School of Journalism and Communications leaving in 1988 to become one of the founders of the world's first multi-faith and multicultural broadcaster, Vision TV. Deverell has helped to advance the careers of visible minorities and Aboriginal people and is credited with influencing positively the portrayal of women onscreen, was named to Maclean's Honour Roll of Outstanding Canadians, was the recipient of the Canadian Black Achievement Award and Media Watch's Dodi Robb Award, was inducted into the CAB Broadcast Hall of Fame and in 2005 was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada. The Centre for Creative Communications is Canada's premiere school for Communications, Media and Design and offers forward-thinking and hands-on programs in Art + Design, Advertising + Public Relations, Integrated Media and Journalism + Publishing. Media Contact: Paul Koidis, Manager, Communications, Marketing and Development pkoidis@centennialcollege.ca / 416.289.5000 ext. 8609 |
