About Us
We are a publishing company with media production collaboration, with a team of highly skilled editors, filmmakers, sound engineers, decorators, artists, photographers, and more.
B3 Content Publishing & Film Production
With our fully equipped rental studios regarded as one of the best in the northern region of New Brunswick, Canada, we support our expanding communities’ diversity by developing Black, Indigenous and racialized individuals who self-determine their visions to create elevated content, from books, graphic novels, film, documentaries, animations and other types of media.
Our
Partners
We have partners in Africa and Black communities in Canada, along with Indigenous and other racialized groups. We pursue a common goal of using media to bridge the gap between the rest of the world and it’s racially marginalized groups whose culture and history are relatively unknown to many. This would enable us provide premium entertainment to these groups.
Our Team
Ronald Sharpe
CEO
Ronald Sharpe was a founding member of the Employment Equity and Diversity Committee and B3 networks for the Federal Public Service and worked collaboratively with provincial leaders and Community organization’s across the Atlantic region.
He has also co-founded the artistic and community-based social enterprise organization, LavaStream Media Inc., representing the Atlantic region of Canada. He was integral in creating Interdepartmental Training Pilots, Career Developmental programs, and Summits. He provided training in Cultural Sensitivity regional and works with Senior Officials and employees across all public service and community leaders at all levels toward an equitable future.
Ronald is a co-founder of the Atlantic Equity and Research Alliance (AEARA), an organization set up to provide additional research toward economic career support services for racialized groups in New Brunswick, Canada.
Lisa-Gay Taylor
Director
Lisa-Gay Taylor is a founding member and director at the Immigrant Women Association New Brunswick (IWANB) an organization designed to provide a voice for immigrant and visible minority women in the Canadian province. She was a member of the Provincial Advisory Committee for the New Brunswick Multicultural Council Project for immigrant women from 2016 to 2017.
Lisa is currently a director at the Atlantic Equity and Research Alliance (AEARA).
Wasiu Adeoje
Director
Wasiu Adeoje is a seasoned Architect, Project Management Professional, and a business entrepreneur with a wealth of experience in construction and the real estate industry. He is a Property Assessor at the Property Assessment Department at the province of New Brunswick.
Wasiu is currently a director at the Atlantic Equity and Research Alliance (AEARA).
Michael Oseji
Director
Michael is a professional member of the Chartered Institute for IT, UK and a member of the Association for Computer Machinery. He is also a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) amongst other IT related certifications.
For a period spanning more than 20 years, Michael has been involved in the design, provision and management of media and IT projects and programs for various organizations in Nigeria, West Africa. In recent years, his focus has broadened to cover digital TV systems infrastructure including, inter alia, OTT, Pay TV and IPTV systems.
Maureen Tokeson-Martin
Executive Producer
Born in Cameroon, Central Africa, Maureen Tokeson-Martin has had the pleasure of calling two other countries home: Canada and the United States. Maureen studied at Wilfred Laurier University and is a graduate of the University of Guelph. Her professional background includes the newsroom (CITY-TV/MUCH MUSIC), film production, and marketing/Public Relations.
Her strength as a business professional is in creating successful marketing and business strategies. Professional stints include working with agencies such as Young and Rubicon, Cohn and Wolfe, and four years with Bronxconnect where she was instrumental in winning them a 1 million Communities Thrive Challenge Grant (Chan Zuckerberg.)
During the unprecedented pandemic of 2020, Maureen sensed a need to disrupt the high number of BIPOC people being court-involved and dying during bias incidents. She pivoted into technology to create an app to crowdsource safety and educate allies to be effective non-police first responders to diffuse race/gender-motivated aggressions.
Blaq App is a combination of technology and social enterprise that creates 24/7 safety for the BIPOC/LGBTQ+ and the marginalized. Maureen’s film industry experience includes associate producing independent films, working for the Toronto International Film Festival, Hollywood Black Film Festival, and Gen Art (film festival selection committee). She most recently competed and won the “Overstand” pitchfest at the Urbanworld Film Festival.
The pilot #AfriMericans, won many commendations and was awarded first place in the Overstand pitch competition of the Urban World Film Festival 2018, also garnering a commitment for a Movie of the Week by a streaming service. Maureen shares “Distinguished Writer” recognition from the New York TV Festival 2018 with writing partner Delaina Dixon. She is the executive producer of the live action franchise Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan based on the video game created by fellow Cameroonian Olivier Madiba.