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Ryerson student by day, DEA agent by night

Meet Raymond Ablack, a 27-year-old actor from Toronto who plays both Sav Bhandari in Degrassi: The Next Generation and Agent Stoddard in the third season of Narcos.

by Ryersonian Staff· November 9, 2017· Features

RTA students pay thousands to create their final projects

If you stop any student on the Ryerson campus and ask them how they’re doing financially, their response will probably range from “broke” to “really broke.”

It’s no secret that university students are short on cash. Tuition fees are hard enough to pay on time, but students in the Radio Television Arts (RTA) program face additional costs in order to finish their degrees.

by Heather Stewart· November 1, 2017· Arts & Life, Film & Television

The Orah 4i VR Camera was set up on the stage at the Machina Unplugged concert on Oct. 20 at The Cavern Bar. (Photo by Heather Stewart)

RTA students want concert-goers to relive shows with Machina

A group of Ryerson RTA students is trying to get audiences to put down their phones during concerts by filming it with a 360 degree camera.

Machina is a fourth-year practicum project that is creating a new, immersive way to relive concerts by using virtual reality technology to show concert footage on their online app.

by Heather Stewart· October 25, 2017· Arts & Life, Visual Arts & Design

RTA filmmakers students tackle corporate greed

Imagine a world where a large corporate company with enough power to both save communities from drought but also escape the law when it poisons them.

This is the focus of Unearthed, a dramatic, short-film in production by a group of RTA students meant to address the ethics behind the business of food.

by Aidan Macnab· October 20, 2017· Arts & Life, Film & Television

Student film confronts relationship sex abuse

Meet Glass Ceiling Productions, a group of five young women in their fourth year of Ryerson’s RTA School of Media releasing a film that is normalizing the conversation of sexual assault, abuse and consent.

Their coming-of-age film, The Remnants of Eden, is about sexual consent in a relationship and speaks about a traumatic event that happens to the main character, Eden Rosen.