When entrepreneur Sumit Ajwani was growing up in Scarborough in the 1990s, the idea of a career in media was “absurd.”
When entrepreneur Sumit Ajwani was growing up in Scarboroughin the 1990s, the idea of a career in media was “absurd.”“My school had no media program whatsoever, but I made a film for a class, and fell in love with making movies at a young age. And my school was really amazing about it – the principal got me a computer, and set me up with a camera, and even gave me space in the school to edit. Stuff that’s unheard of now. That level of care changed my life, and set up my career.
Recipients of the scholarship are given the opportunity to create a project of their own, and are afforded resources including a Mac laptop and iPhone, a year’s worth of access to the Adobe Creative Suite, and $1,000 towards producing a new project.“I want to help these kids find a passion, and a love for media and storytelling,” Ajwani said. “I want to see more diversity in media in general. This is how we get there.
“I wasn’t really confident at first, but my teacher had so much confidence in me,” she said in an interview. MacRae, 17, says she “wanted to spread positive energy” after the pandemic, which her project aims to achieve using a token of kindness: a friendship bracelet.
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