Maria Fernanda Osorio Arredondo

Lighting up Vancouver with the Firecracker Department

By: Maria Fernanda Osorio Arredondo, SFU Student Passion was palpable among the artists present at the Vancouver Firecracker Department launch on Saturday, September 28. Initially a podcast created by award-winning actor Naomi Snieckus, the Firecracker Department grew into an international community of women and gender-non-conforming people “empowering each other to take creative action through education.”  Through interviews with women and non-binary artists, the Firecracker Department aims to platform diverse voices and their experiences in the TV and film industry. The original podcast perfectly represents film director and producer Ava DuVernay’s quote, “I’m not going to continue knocking that old door…

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