Emilia King
Dr. Emilia King (nee Zboralska) is a creator, educator and researcher with a focus on challenging the status quo in Canada’s media system. She has a unique profile that combines professional creative practice with award winning, rigorous research on media entrepreneurship and policy.
Emilia is the co-founder and CEO of Pink Moon Studio, an end-to-end media company that focuses on bold and distinctive storytelling through both its branded and original content divisions. Pink Moon was recently accepted into the Banff World Media Festival Spark Accelerator program. Currently, Emilia also leads Ryerson University’s entertainment media innovation incubator, the Transmedia Zone, and she is the Co-Director of Engagement at the Creative Innovation Studio.
Emilia’s research investigates the political economy of entrepreneurship in the digital-first sector and provides the first benchmark analysis of gender and race across key creative roles in Canadian web series. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, and she has presented at conferences worldwide.
Emilia is the former president of the Independent Web Creators of Canada, external link, and a current board member of the Independent Production Fund, external link. She is a strong proponent of design thinking as a problem solving and audience engagement strategy and leads design jams that bring together a wide cross-section of stakeholders to address social, cultural, technical, organizational, and policy challenges.
Emilia is the co-founder and CEO of Pink Moon Studio, an end-to-end media company that focuses on bold and distinctive storytelling through both its branded and original content divisions. Pink Moon was recently accepted into the Banff World Media Festival Spark Accelerator program. Currently, Emilia also leads Ryerson University’s entertainment media innovation incubator, the Transmedia Zone, and she is the Co-Director of Engagement at the Creative Innovation Studio.
Emilia’s research investigates the political economy of entrepreneurship in the digital-first sector and provides the first benchmark analysis of gender and race across key creative roles in Canadian web series. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, and she has presented at conferences worldwide.
Emilia is the former president of the Independent Web Creators of Canada, external link, and a current board member of the Independent Production Fund, external link. She is a strong proponent of design thinking as a problem solving and audience engagement strategy and leads design jams that bring together a wide cross-section of stakeholders to address social, cultural, technical, organizational, and policy challenges.
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media labor and cultural production by Emilia King
general production culture framework, particularly in regards to industrial reflexivity, we present an analysis of 50 in-depth interviews with English-language Canadian screenwriters. As our subjects reflect on their experiences, a portrait emerges of the factors affecting the screenwriter’s role in the production of screen culture in English-speaking Canada. Their stories reveal a complex plot: one in which screenwriters, much
like the characters they create, manoeuver through a landscape with its own boundaries, pitfalls, rewards, and consequences in their quest to attract elusive homegrown audiences.
Papers by Emilia King
general production culture framework, particularly in regards to industrial reflexivity, we present an analysis of 50 in-depth interviews with English-language Canadian screenwriters. As our subjects reflect on their experiences, a portrait emerges of the factors affecting the screenwriter’s role in the production of screen culture in English-speaking Canada. Their stories reveal a complex plot: one in which screenwriters, much
like the characters they create, manoeuver through a landscape with its own boundaries, pitfalls, rewards, and consequences in their quest to attract elusive homegrown audiences.