- Adira, a teenage girl discovers her love for gaming with some help from a top Twitch streamer as her mentor, Autumn Rhodes. Adira quickly rises to a professional streaming status and must overcome new challenges.
- Adira, a teenage girl discovers her love for gaming with some help from a top Twitch streamer as her mentor, Autumn Rhodes. Adira quickly rises to a professional streaming status and must overcome challenges that come along with her newfound popularity.
- Enabled by the popularity of the Twitch streaming platform, self-made media stars have the ability to be international icons in their specific realm of expertise from anywhere in the world. In this newly evolving space with no boundaries, those with desire and tenacity can attain stardom and success.
The feature film is an inspirational, heartwarming story of Adira, an indigenous teenage girl who discovers her love for gaming with some help from a top Twitch streamer as her mentor, Autumn Rhodes. Adira quickly rises to a professional streaming status. The film looks to explore the world of online gaming through the eyes of a young Mi'kmaw girl living in rural Nova Scotia. Adira has a good relationship with her single mother, Mitzi who works at the Mi'kmaw Friendship Centre, where Adira also volunteers her time. Their indigenous heritage and tradition is an important backdrop to the film. Jamal, Adira's long time best friend is heavily involved in the Africville community, a historic part of Halifax that was once home to several Afro-metis Nova Scotians, that endured deep hardship of segregation and discrimination.
Jamal plays an active role in the Africville reunion that takes place in Halifax every summer. Unlike some teenagers, Adira and Jamal care deeply about their community, they get along with their parents and teachers and are all around good kids. But not unlike a lot of teenagers, Adira struggles with insecurity and low self-esteem. These issues stem from the inability to fit in based on her heritage. When she discovers her knack for online gaming, her ambition to succeed quickly takes hold. Even with her newfound success, she comes out the other side having learned what really matters and how to stay true to who she really is.
The massive popularity of online video game streaming continues to accelerate and those that commit themselves to the craft are rewarded. Stream Me is set on a backdrop of a brave new world driven by our youth engaging their imaginations with powerful new technologies. This environment fundamentally allows anyone to broadcast themselves to the world from anywhere. If you are talented, charismatic and engaging, audiences can be massive and so can the financial rewards. Stream Me is a story of how the democratization of the internet can be a powerful means of breaking down a variety of societal barriers.
Gender, ancestry and heritage all have inherently beautiful qualities and are points of deep-rooted strength. Society has time and time again come to interpret our uniqueness negatively and establish biases against them. All the elements of this media project have been executed with a view of aspirational positivity and thoughtful sensitivity of the subject matter. Stream Me tells a relevant and emerging story of our generation and the evolving social fabric of the global community we all share.
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