NWT’s Jiah Dzentu earns chance to work on Ryan Reynolds production – Cabin Radio
November 6, 2020
Fort Simpson’s Jiah Dzentu is headed to British Columbia to work on a new Netflix project alongside Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds.
Dzentu is one of 20 Black and Indigenous people from across the country selected by the Group Effort Initiative – founded by Reynolds – to join the project’s crew as a production trainee.
The trainees will work on various aspects of producing an as-yet untitled movie about time travel featuring Reynolds.
Reynolds is funding the initiative and financing participants’ wages, transportation, and accommodation. He created the initiative to address the under-representation of Black, Indigenous, and other marginalized communities in film.
