Video Story – “The Beauty in the Unscripted” https://youtu.be/ZJ_SIfoKbWg This video essay explores the idea that real life rarely looks the way movies and media promise it will. Through honest storytelling and everyday visuals, it challenges unrealistic expectations surrounding love, success, and grief while uncovering the quiet beauty that exists in ordinary life. MUSIC: WILDFLOWERS…

Audio Interview – “Twenty Seconds on a Stage” Caitlin Larrigan crossed the stage, accepted her degree, and felt nothing close to what the movies told her she would feel. In this audio piece, the fifth-year TRU graduate talks about the gap between cinematic life and the one she has actually lived, specifically when it comes…

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Real Life Doesn’t Look Like the Movies – and That’s Hurting Young Adults A growing body of research suggests young adults across Canada and the U.S. are struggling with the gap between their real lives and the cinematic ones they see in film, television, and on social media – a gap that researchers say is…