About
Strange Duck Media was founded in 2001 by Irene Duma. Her team consults, creates and produces advertising and marketing campaigns, web sites, CD ROMs, and videos for clients in film and television production, associations and charities, corporations, artists as well as other digital media companies
Irene Duma is a creative and versatile hands-on New Media designer/producer and director with an effective combination of creativity, technical abilities, and contagious good humour. She brings over 15 years experience in various entertainment fields, including theatre and comedy, film production, acting, writing and directing, and teaching to New Media.
Irene knows how to “put on a good show”. Her strong storytelling and comedic skills were honed in front of live audiences as an improvisational and sketch comedy performer/writer. Irene has been a member of such popular comedy groups as Theatresports, What’s Next?, The Rula Lenskas, The Rubber Chicken Picnic Theatre Company and Vitriol Garden, and counts over 500 performances under her belt.
As a filmmaker, Irene has written and produced three short films based on books for BookShorts Inc., and has also edited numerous behind the scenes videos and blogs for the BookShorts TV Series, Moving Stories. Irene is also the creator and director of several original series for the web, including cult fave “Madame Borshka’s European Beauty Secrets” for “Happy Woman Magazine’.
Active in the New Media and screen-based industries, Irene has taught New Media Design and online writing through The Design Exchanges’s re:design program and at Centennial College in Toronto. She is also a member of the New Media Business Alliance, the Association of Internet Marketers and Digital Eve Toronto, and is a Silver Sponsor of WIFT - Women in Film and Television Toronto.
A creative through and through, Irene jumps at the opportunity to solve any problem, while her imaginative and constructive approach give her the tools to make truly compelling and entertaining productions. |
