pop culture News Archive
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Law alumna turns class assignment into TV script
June 9, 2021 —
University of Manitoba Faculty of Law alumna Anjali Sandhu [JD/2020] was known at Robson Hall for maintaining a busy schedule both on stage and in the classroom throughout her law school career. Now an associate lawyer at MLT Aikins’ Winnipeg office called to the bar this spring, she was selected to pitch a screenplay - originally written as a law school assignment - to the Netflix-Banff Diversity of Voices initiative at the Banff World Media Festival happening (virtually this year) June 14 – July 16, 2021.
A black pop cultural hero leaps onto the big screen
February 8, 2018 —
Pop culture expert and U of M professor of religion Kenneth MacKendrick sees the movie Black Panther as a complex but familiar story about the struggle of good versus evil