Happy Juneteenth, Happy Pride, and Happy Last Day of Spring! It’s been an unprecedentedly challenging year, but the team at THE GREAT TIT IS A BIRD is surviving — and happy to share a few updates with you.
📼📀 NEW RELEASES 📼📀
This past month, we released a trailer and a behind-the-scenes discussion of our film DEMO DAY (The Great Tit is a Bird, Part 1). Thanks to DuKode’s spring intern Mia for producing, editing, and hosting the behind-the-scenes, and to Latasha, La’Tonia, Bryné, Jovanny and Ar for sharing their notes and favorite memories of the DEMO DAY production.
We also hosted a new edition of THE GREAT TIT IS A BIRD & UNSAFE SPACE as part of Inclusion Week at York University’s Center for Human Rights, Equity and Inclusion. Please email us for a link to this discussion.
🌈 AN OPPORTUNITY 🏳️⚧️
If you’ve previously worked on THE GREAT TIT IS A BIRD and would like your bio included on dukodestudio.com, please reply to this email with a 2-paragraph bio, headshot (ideally 1500+ pixels wide and tall, 72 dpi). If you want your bio linked to your website, portfolio, social media, etc, please include those URLs.
The Transgender Media Portal is also inviting current and former TGTIAB contributors to submit their profile to be featured on their site. (If you send a bio+headshot, please indicate if you want it included in the TMP site.) You don’t have to identify as trans to be part the site, which includes profiles of film stars Laurence Fishburne (THE MATRIX) and Daryl Hannah (KILL BILL).
🏆🏆 ACCOLADES 🏆🏆
THE GREAT TIT IS A BIRD won stuff! Thanks to the Telly Awards, Asian Women Giving Circle, Mid Atlantic Arts Cultural Sustainability: Community Roots, and the Brooklyn Arts Council for selecting THE GREAT TIT IS A BIRD as an awardee. And thanks to the York University Connected Minds neural science research initiative for supporting THE GREAT TIT IS A BIRD with multiple awards. Our project was also included at Athens Animafest, the “Biometrics & Cartoons” workshop series in Toronto, InterAccess’s Sustainable Practices workshop series, and MIT Artfinity.
🍉🌞 COMING UP🍁🍂
Please keep an eye out for invites to these upcoming events: DuKode SYEP Pride Creative Tech Career Exploration (Brooklyn in August), TGTIAB @ Toronto Nollywood Film Festival (Toronto in September), and York University Connected Minds Showcase (Toronto in October). If you’re interested in volunteering, please let us know!
🌚🫣 SNEAK PEEKS 🫣🌝
We’ll leave you with photos of our works-in-progress, to be unveiled at upcoming events. To learn more, feel free to send us a note 📝 Thanks to Favour, Henry, and Mariana (all pictured below) for their contributions 🤩
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