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If you're interested in ways a filmmaker's career can advance, this is an episode you won't want to miss!  Listen up as multiple award-winning Vancouver writer/director Connor Gaston shares the roots of his fascination with reincarnation, the value of graduating from programs like the Canadian Film Centre and the TIFF Talent Lab, and what ultimately got him meetings in Hollywood that landed him an LA manager.Connor's films have screened in prestigious festivals around the world including TIFF, Busan, Sapporo, Sedona, Newport Beach, Whistler, and Vancouver Film Festival—along the way winning multiple Leos and other awards including a Grand Prix in Paris's Courts Devant short film festival. He won the BC Emerging Filmmaker Award at Vancouver International Film Festival, graduated from Norman Jewison's Canadian Film Centre, and was a member of the 2017 TIFF Talent Lab. He currently teaches at the Vancouver Film School.Mentioned in this episode:Watch The Cameraman on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/323984793Other films:Watch Encore on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/601186469Watch Adam in the Wall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqMx4zJwDu0More about Connor:IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4497477/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/connor-gaston-94560068/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/connorgaston/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/connor.gastonX: https://twitter.com/connorgastonSubscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts:https://apple.co/2S5WB7q Podcast Production Team:·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican·      Host, Researcher & copywriter: Joyce Kline·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta

There's certain to be lots that filmmakers and other creatives can relate to in part one of Joyce Kline's two-part interview with Vancouver based, internationally award-winning, writer/director Connor Gaston. With humour and rare honesty, Connor shares the joys and challenges of growing up in a household of writers, adapting his own father's novel, collaborating with his brother Vaughn, directing children, and how he bounces back when something doesn't work. Connor's films have screened in prestigious festivals around the world including TIFF, Busan, Sapporo, Sedona, Newport Beach, Whistler, and Vancouver Film Festival—along the way winning multiple Leos and other awards including a Grand Prix in Paris's Courts Devant short film festival. He won the BC Emerging Filmmaker Award at Vancouver International Film Festival, graduated from Norman Jewison's Canadian Film Centre, and was a member of the 2017 TIFF Talent Lab.  He currently teaches at the Vancouver Film School. Mentioned in this episode:Watch The Cameraman on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/323984793 Other films:Watch Encore on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/601186469 Watch Adam in the Wall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqMx4zJwDu0 More about Connor:IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4497477/Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/connor-gaston-94560068/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/BJEcaRNBlEw/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/connor.gastonX: https://twitter.com/connorgaston?lang=en Subscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts:https://apple.co/2S5WB7q Podcast Production Team:·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican·      Host, Researcher & copywriter: Joyce Kline·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta    

Tom Charity, Programmer at VIFF - Vancity Theatre discusses a Back to the 80s movie marathon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lesley Diana publicist and founder of The Promotion People talks about how she came up the name The Promotion People, her first job as a unit publicist, her work with the Leo Awards, Vancouver Film Festival, Country Music Awards, The 2010 Olympics. Lesley tells us the actors, filmmakers she works with such as Jerry Stiller. Lesley also talks about what is next for her. In addition, Lesley talks about her hosting two television shows on fitness and lifestyle. Information: http://www.thepromotionpeople.ca/

Iran, Philippines, Hungary and Canada are all the countries Arash has lived and he tells us about his experience in each. We also talk about food and the Vancouver Film Festival. Follow him on Instagram @arashreviews --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alisa-harder4/message

As a writer, director, actor and producer, Jonas Chernich does it all. His films have screened at the TIFF, Vancouver Film Festival and every other notable festival in the country and beyond. He's had turns on hits like Working Moms, Fargo and Dark Matter. And along the way has been recognized by the likes of the Canadian Screen Awards, ACTRA Awards and Canadian Comedy Awards. For more visit www.jonaschernick.com. Subscribe: Apple | Google | Spotify | Youtube Follow: Instagram | Twitter | Facebook Rate: Apple Podcasts (iOS) | Podchaser (iOS / Android) Donate: Here Production: Next Exit Media Host: Robi Levy Music: Hot Swing by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

Dr. Lindsay Wilner is the founding director of the Christmas Box House, a center for at-risk children removed from their homes due to abuse, neglect, or abandonment. In this episode, Lindsay shares how wrestling with her own midlife crisis inspired her to write a screenplay titled Ledge Dweller, dedicated to all women seeking rebirth in their middle age. This screenplay process gave Lindsay more insight into the filming industry and the need to support women behind the lens. Lindsay also produced a horror movie titled Severed, an entirely student-driven production that became a semi-finalist at the Vancouver Film Festival awards. Listen in to hear how Lindsay enjoys her favorite decade in life and how she turned her life experience into a screenplay.

#lucasfilm #starwars #ilmxlab #vaderimmortal #carneyarena #virtualreality #hyperreality Vicki Dobbs Beck has more than 30 years of broad-based management experience in the entertainment industry. Variety named her a “Digital Innovator to Watch in 2020”, and in 2019, the Advanced Imaging Society recognized Vicki with a Distinguished Leadership Award for being a significant “entertainment industry growth catalyst.” Currently, Vicki is the VP, Immersive Content Innovation of ILMxLAB, the award-winning division launched by Lucasfilm in 2015 to pioneer in the field of immersive storytelling. ILMxLAB wants to make it possible for people to ‘Step Inside Our Stories' in ways never before possible. Using new technologies like virtual and augmented reality, ILMxLAB aspires to create connected experiences that transform places, spaces and our daily lives as we transition from story-telling to story-living. Under Vicki's leadership, ILMxLAB created the ground-breaking VR installation, Carne y Arena, which was the vision of Alejandro Iñárritu in association with Legendary Entertainment and Fondazione Prada. Carne y Arena was chosen as the first-ever VR Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival (2017) and was awarded a special Oscar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, “in recognition of a visionary and powerful experience in storytelling.” In addition to producing multiple promotional VR experiences supporting major film releases and experiments in “all shades of reality”, ILMxLAB has collaborated with the VOID to develop and produce the critically acclaimed hyper-reality experiences: Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire, Ralph Breaks VR and Avengers: Damage Control. In 2019, ILMxLAB released Vader Immortal, a three-part original VR Story Series for the Oculus Quest and Rift / Rift S headsets. Episode I of Vader Immortal won the inaugural PGA Innovation Award in 2020, GDC Best VR/AR Game (2020), and ‘VR Experience of the Year' from the London-based VR Awards (2019). Most recently, ILMxLAB launched Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge, a VR StoryLiving experience that extends the world of Black Spire Outpost at Disneyland and Walt Disney World. Vicki is a member of the Television Academy; the Producers Guild of America; a BAFTA Associate Member; and has served on the BAFTA Immersive Entertainment Advisory Group. She is also Chairman of AIXR's VR Advisory Group and an Advisory Board member for the Los Angeles-based Infinity Festival. Vicki has spoken extensively at global industry events and in business forums including CNBC's Squawk Alley, the BBC, Fortune Brainstorm Tech Conference, Bloomberg Design Conference, Vancouver Film Festival, Infinity Film Festival and YPO's Global EDGE conference. As a member of Lucasfilm's Franchise Team, ILM's Senior Staff and CG Operations Team, Vicki has received credits on more than 24 films. Vicki received her MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business where she also completed her undergraduate studies, earning a BA with distinction in International Relations.

Loretta Sarah Todd and Face2Face host David Peck talk about Monkey Beach, indigenous storytelling, delicate spaces, narrative anchors, displacement and why it’s in the bones and blood.TrailerMore about the film hereSynopsis:Waking up in her East Van apartment nursing another hangover, Lisa (Grace Dove) is served notice by her cousin’s ghost (Sera-Lys McArthur), "Your family needs you." Reunited with her Haisla kin in Kitimaat Village, she realizes that she’s meant to save her brother (Joel Oulette) from a tragic fate she’s foreseen since childhood. Of course, there’s also the matter of contending with the mystical creatures lurking in the nearby woods. And so begins a captivating allegory about learning to coexist with both the ghosts that haunt us and spirits who might enlighten us.In bringing Eden Robinson’s beloved novel to the screen, Loretta S. Todd offers us a modern epic underpinned by themes that have long defined heroic journeys. Todd’s first feature narrative unfolds through a thrilling array of temporal shifts and stylistic flourishes. A film about reconnection with the land, its denizens and the secrets it holds, Monkey Beach is also a testament to Indigenous women’s ability to not just endure trials but emerge from them empowered.About Sarah:Female. Cree. Metis. White. Writes (been to Sundance Writer's Lab). Directs (many films, lots of festivals). Thinks (essays full of tersely cogent remarks or flamboyantly theoretical analysis). Produces (she understands the labyrinth). Challenges herself and others and makes things happen. And yes, she has many awards and accolades. Known for lyrical, expressionistic imagery combined with strong storytelling skills, Todd tells truths that are haunting, funny and real.Ms. Todd credits include award-winning documentaries, such as Forgotten Warriors, The People Go On and Hands of History, with the NFB of Canada, digital media work and television. She created, produced and directed Tansi! Nehiyawetan, a Cree children’s series on APTN. And, she created MyCree, a Cree language learning app – and which has over 20,000 downloads. Currently she is in production with Season 3 of Coyote’s Crazy Smart Science, the award-winning children’s series about Indigenous science. Ms. Todd was invited to speak at Kidscreen 2019 on the Indigenous Representation: Getting it Right Panel. And Coyote Science was also invited to MIPJr, on a panel on diversity in Canadian children's programming. And she created, produced, wrote and directed Skye and Chang, a martial arts sci-fi mash-up that one Best Drama at the American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco.This fall, Ms. Todd is releasing Monkey Beach, her first feature film based on the iconic Canadian novel by Eden Robinson, And she created Fierce Girls, a webseries and transmedia project for Indigenous girls about Indigenous girl superheroes. She is also in development with a new animated children's series called Nitanis & Skylar.Selected Festivals include: Toronto International Film Festival, American Indian Film Festival, Sundance Festival, Yamagata Documentary Festival, the Museum of Modern Art, Hot Docs, Vancouver Film Festival, Chicago Film Festival, etc, etc. Other significant honours for her work include the 2018 Women in Film Artistic Innovation Award, NYU Rockefeller Fellowship, participation at the Sundance Scriptwriter’s Lab, Mayor’s Awards for Media Arts (City of Vancouver), as well as numerous film awards, such as Best History Documentary at Hot Docs Festival, Special Jury Citation at Toronto International Film Festival, Best Documentary at the American Indian Festival, as well as awards from the Chicago Film Festival, Taos Talking Film Festival, Yorkton Film Festival – to name a few.In demand as a writer and lecturer on arts and media, Ms. Todd spoke at the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations, as well as other prestigious institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of the American Indian and numerous conferences on Indigenous language to AI and Immersive technology. Her essays appear in many publications from MIT Press to UBC Press.Ms. Todd also initiated organizational change within cultural practice in Canada, helping to develop media training programs, reviewing policy through various committees and creating the IM4 Lab – a VR/AR Lab in collaboration with Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Recently she was chosen as a Lead Fellow to MIT, through the Indigenous Screen Office.Image Copyright and Credit: Sparrow and Crow Films and Sarah Loretta Todd.F2F Music and Image Copyright: David Peck and Face2Face. Used with permission.For more information about David Peck’s podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit his site here.With thanks to Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Every musicians thought of it. Hitting it big with a hit song and have it get scooped up into the next big Apple commercial, or maybe even the next James Bond movie - and all you have to do is sit back and reap the benefits!Well, unfortunately it's not quite that easy - but it's definitely possible! And we've enlisted the help of Robbie Hancock to come teach us how it's done on this weeks episode of the Your Band Sucks (At Business) Podcast! Robbie is a fantastic songwriter from Victoria, BC and he's one of the few people I've come across that has set out to make his way through the world of TV and Film sync. Naturally, this made him the perfect guest for us to talk to so that we could get you first hand information on how it all works. In this weeks episode, you'll learn: What matters when you write for syncHow publishing splits are decidedHow networking changed Robbies career trajectory When to take things into your own hands if the money isn't showing upand more!If this untapped revenue path sounds like it's something that might interest you, head to your favourite podcast app and get listening! --------------------------------------------------------Stuff We Mention:Music Contracts: http://musiccontracts.com/ Toronto Sync Summit  - http://syncsummit.com/cmw/Vancouver Film Festival - https://viff.org/Online/default.aspTAXI - https://www.taxi.comSAC - http://www.songwriters.ca/aboutsac2.aspxNSAI - https://www.nashvillesongwriters.comRalph Murphy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Murphy_(musician)TuneFind: https://www.tunefind.comTuneSat: https://tunesat.com/tunesatportal/homeStuff We Use / Affiliate Links: Distrokid (our recommended music distribution service): https://distrokid.com/vip/seven/567702Microphones: Shure SM7B: https://amzn.to/2yN3UHQApollo Twin Interface: https://amzn.to/2xQMABnClose.IO (Malcoms recommended CRM): https://close.com/?via=YourBandSucksSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/yourbandsucksatbusiness)

(4:50) The guys start the show talking about the impact of Kobe's death. (13:04) Actor Daniel Mann talks about the challenges and rewards of being an actor. (29:13) Brent breaks down what it takes to be a successful filmmaker. (35:45) The guys discuss the difference between being famous and being great. (60:03) Brent received some great news from a Vancouver Film Festival.....but he has to tell Juan that he may miss his wedding.

In tennis, measurement – specifically, judging whether a ball is in or out – is particularly crucial. The new ESPN Films 30 for 30 Short, SUBJECT TO REVIEW takes a close look at not just the technology that’s been developed to determine the right calls with better accuracy, but the meaning and significance of that pursuit. The film, directed by Theo Anthony (“RAT FILM”) will air Sunday, Dec. 22, at 3 p.m. ET on ESPN. Tracing the history of photographic review back more than a hundred years, and chronicling controversial moments before and after the age of review in tennis, SUBJECT TO REVIEW explores the mechanisms of the cameras and computerized simulations that now serve as the final word on close calls – but also the limits of the veracity of those calls. Ultimately, it’s a story about technology in sports – but also a study of what we want from our machines, and our minds, well beyond any court of play. “’Subject to Review’ is about how some images are made and why they’re made that way,” said director Anthony. “It’s a film about the inescapable rift between the world and how we image that world. I hope that audiences can take this small exercise in critical curiosity beyond the world of tennis, giving audiences a little space to look differently at the world.” Theo Anthony joins us to talk about the complex relationship between flawed human judgement and the “certainty” of technology. “Subject to Review” has screened at New York Film Festival, Hamptons Film Festival, Vancouver Film Festival and Mar Del Plata Film Festival. About the Filmmaker – Theo Anthony is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker whose films have received premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival, Locarno International Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, and SXSW. His first feature, “RAT FILM,” was released by Cinema Guild in 2017 to critical acclaim. “Subject to Review” is produced by Sebastian Pardo and Riel Roch-Decter of MEMORY, an independent artist-driven studio specializing in producing and curating innovative, thought-provoking works that push the formal boundaries of their medium. Together, the duo has produced and distributed multiple award-winning fiction and non-fiction films. SUBJECT TO REVIEW will air on ESPN beginning Sunday, December 22, at 3 p.m. (Eastern) Social Media theoanthony.net twitter.com/ProxyTheo instagram.com/theodorejacobanthony https://vimeo.com/theoanthony

Last week, at VIFF Immersed, Ricky Brigante of Pseudonym Productions gave the opening keynote and our own Noah Nelson moderated the closing panel with the competition judges.  So naturally, the night before, Ricky and Noah stayed up drinking and talking, and recorded it all for you. This after the back and forth of first Noah's and then Ricky's column on growing the audience for immersive. Recorded live in an awesome hotel room that the Vancouver Film Festival was kind enough to provide us with. East Coast meets West Coast all the way up in British Columbia! Plus: an update on Pseudonym's Dark Passage, a quick check-in on 2020 Summit plans, head's up on our Delusion Talk Back, and a brief shout out to the brilliant folks at Cross Roads Escape Games. All this brought to you by our Patreon backers.

Welcome to a VERY special episode of the Give N'Go Podcast with special guest Kat Jayme. Kat is an award winning Canadian Film maker who just directed, wrote, and produced the new documentary titled "Finding Big Country" in which she goes on a quest to find her childhood hero Bryant Reeves. Jordan Taylor sits down with Kat to discuss her latest interview and the huge success of her film! They go over what it's like to meet your childhood hero (3:00), Kat's experience getting a one-on-one basketball training session with Bryant Reeves (6:56), the promo gone wrong that turned in to a marketing frenzy in Vancouver (10:00), the reception of the film at the Vancouver Film Festival and winning the People's Choice Award (15:27), and much more! Lets Give N'Go! http://findingbigcountry.com/ https://basketbrawlers.ca

We start the show off with an interview with the director of a new type of romantic movie, "The New Romantic", Carly Stone. We then quickly stumble into a call with Bill Pozzobon about the spookiest funniest improve themed events, Spooktober, at the Vancouver TheatreSports. Afterwards we focus on reviews on Incognito Mode: A Play About Porn and the Vancouver Film Festival movies, such as "Woman at War".

LANDFILL HARMONIC chronicles the incredible journey of Paraguay's Recycled Orchestra of Cateura. Orchestra Founder Favio Chavez had hopes of sharing music with the children of Cateura, a poverty stricken slum next to the capital's largest landfill. Since expensive musical instruments were not within attainable for families in Cateura, Favio, along with carpenter and trash picker Nicolas "Cola" Gomez, began to craft instruments from materials found in the landfill to provide children with the opportunity to play. They journey exceeds all expectations as they find themselves playing for audiences around the world, even accompanying artists such as Stevie Wonder, Metallica and Megadeth. They've also played for Pope Francis, and recently performed at The United Nations in NYC. Winner of the Audience Award at the South By Southwest Film Festival, AFI DOCS Festival, Vancouver Film Festival; official selection at the Sheffield Film Festival and winner of the Documentary Award for The Humanitas Prize. Co-director Brad Allgood joins us for a conversation on this uplifting and captivating film. For news and updates go to: landfillharmonicmovie.com/

Brad Allgood (Director/Editor/Director of Photography) Brad is an award-winning filmmaker with a background in international development and public health. His films have taken him into the heart of the Nicaraguan rainforest, as well as to remote Caribbean islands, the sparse Kalahari desert and dense African jungles. While working for PBS Marketing and Communications, he produced national campaigns for PBS programs including the Emmy Award-winning series Downton Abbey and the American Experience film Freedom Riders. Before transitioning to filmmaking, Brad served for 3 ½ years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nicaragua. He holds a M.A. in Film and Video Production from American University and a B.S. in Biology and Geology from the University of Georgia. Award-winning doc LANDFILL HARMONIC opens in Los Angeles Sept. 23rd Following an impressive festival run and successful NYC theatrical opening, award-winning documentary LANDFILL HARMONIC, directed by Brad Allgood and Graham Townsley, opens in Los Angeles Sept. 23rd. You may have heard the incredible story of The Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, the subjects of LANDFILL HARMONIC, featured this week on NPR Morning Edition. They've also been featured on 60 MINUTES, TEDx, NPR Music, PIX 11 Evening News, CBS Morning News, The Telegraph, and many others. Orchestra founder Favio Chavez began teaching music to children living in the slums of Cateura, Paraguay. Realizing expensive instruments were unattainable for most families, Chavez and carpenter Nicolas Gomez began crafting instruments using materials found in the landfill. When a short Kickstarter video went viral, The Recycled Orchestra of Cateura was catapulted into the global media spotlight. LANDFILL HARMONIC shares the adventures and hardships of this close knit group of young musicians as they share their inspiring journey and music with the world. You can check out the trailer for LANDFILL HARMONIC HERE Don't miss the opportunity to see LANDFILL HARMONIC on the big screen, followed by live performances of The Recycled Orchestra in Los Angeles. The Film Collaborative and Emerging Pictures present LANDFILL HARMONIC directed by Brad Allgood and Graham Townsley co-directed/produced by Juliana Penaranda- Loftus Executive Producers- Alejandra Amarilla, Rodolfo Madero, Belle Murphy running time 84 minutes In Spanish with English subtitles Audiences around the world have praised the incredible true story of these talented young people at over 200 film festivals and winning over 40 film prizes including the Audience Award at the South By Southwest Film Festival, AFI DOCS Festival, Vancouver Film Festival; official selection at the Sheffield Film Festival and winner of the Documentary Award for The Humanitas Prize. LANDFILL HARMONIC chronicles the incredible journey of Paraguay's Recycled Orchestra of Cateura. Orchestra Founder Favio Chavez had hopes of sharing music with the children of Cateura, a poverty stricken slum next to the capital's largest landfill. Since expensive musical instruments were not within attainable for families in Cateura, Favio, along with carpenter and trash picker Nicolas "Cola" Gomez, began to craft instruments from materials found in the landfill to provide children with the opportunity to play. They journey exceeds all expectations as they find themselves playing for audiences around the world, even accompanying artists such as Stevie Wonder, Metallica and Megadeth. They've also played for Pope Francis, and last week performed at The United Nations in NYC. Don't miss this exciting opportunity to see the orchestra in person. SPECIAL SCREENINGS IN LOS ANGELES followed by Q&A with filmmakers: director Brad Allgood, co-director/producer Juliana Penaranda-Loftus producer/founder Alexandra Amarilla with special guests Favio Chavez and The Recycled Orchestra of Cateura Sept 19th @ 7:00 PM Museum of Tolerance 9796 W Pico Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90035 Filmmaker Q&A + live performance Sept 22nd @ 7:30 PM- Filmmaker Q&A + live performance Laemmle Music Hall 9036 Wilshire Blvd Beverly Hills, CA 90211 Filmmaker Q&A + live performance RSVP for both screenings HERE LANDFILL HARMONIC is the award winning and emotionally inspiring film following the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, a Paraguayan musical youth group that plays instruments made entirely out of garbage and waste from the garbage dump in their home town in Paraguay. When their story goes viral, the orchestra is catapulted into the global spotlight. Under the guidance of idealistic music director Favio Chavez, the orchestra must navigate a strange new world of arenas and sold-out concerts. The film is a testimony to the transformative power of music and the resilience of the human spirit. OPENS IN LOS ANGELES SEPTEMBER 23rd Laemmle’s Monica Film Center 1332 2nd St, Santa Monica, CA 90401 and Laemmle’s Pasadena Playhouse 673 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91101 ****WINNER: Audience Award: BEST DOCUMENTARY- SXSW ****WINNER: Audience Award: BEST DOCUMENTARY- AFI FEST **** SPECIAL MENTION The Environmental Award- SHEFFIELD DOC FEST LANDFILL HARMONIC has played over 200 film festivals and has received over 30 Awards at festivals worldwide

  Photo credit: Véro Boncompagni   Check out the trailer of their new NFB film Ninth Floor making its world premiere at TIFF 2015.   Synopsis of Film It started quietly when a group of Caribbean students, strangers in a cold new land, began to suspect their professor of racism. It ended in the most explosive student uprising Canada had ever known. Over four decades later, Ninth Floor reopens the file on the Sir George Williams Riot – a watershed moment in Canadian race relations and one of the most contested episodes in the nation’s history. It was the late 60s, change was in the air, and a restless new generation was claiming its place– but nobody at Sir George Williams University would foresee the chaos to come. On February 11, 1969, riot police stormed the occupied floors of the main building, making multiple arrests. As fire consumed the 9th floor computer centre, a torrent of debris rained onto counter-protesters chanting racist slogans – and scores of young lives were thrown into turmoil. Making a sophisticated and audacious foray into meta-documentary, writer and director Mina Shum meets the original protagonists in clandestine locations throughout Trinidad and Montreal, the wintry city where it all went down. And she listens. Can we hope to make peace with such a painful past? What lessons have we learned? What really happened on the 9th floor? In a cinematic gesture of redemption and reckoning, Shum attends as her subjects set the record straight – and lay their burden down. Cinematography by John Price evokes a taut sense of subterfuge and paranoia, while a spacious soundscape by Miguel Nunes and Brent Belke echoes with the lonely sound of the coldest wind in the world.   Mina Shum: Biography Born in Hong Kong and raised in Canada, Mina Shum is an independent filmmaker and artist. “I’m the child of the Praxis Screenwriting Workshop, Cineworks Independent Film Co-op, the Canadian Film Centre and working class immigrant parents,” she says. With Ninth Floor, a production of the National Film Board of Canada, Shum has written and directed her fourth feature film and first feature documentary. Her first feature Double Happiness (1994) – developed while she was resident director at the Canadian Film Centre – premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it won a Special Jury Citation for Best Canadian Feature Film and the Toronto Metro Media Prize. It went on to win Best First Feature at the Berlin Film Festival and the Audience Award at the Torino Film Festival. Following its American premiere at Sundance, it was released theatrically in the U.S. by Fine Line/New Line Features. It was nominated for multiple Genie Awards, Canada’s top film honour, winning Best Actress for Sandra Oh, and Best Editing for Alison Grace. Shum’s second and third features – Drive, She Said (1997) and Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity (2002) – also premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity was subsequently invited to both Sundance and the Vancouver Film Festival, where it won a Special Citation for Best Screenplay (shared with co-writer Dennis Foon). It was released theatrically in Canada and the U.S. Shum’s short films include Shortchanged; Love In; Hunger; Thirsty; Me, Mom and Mona, which won a Special Jury Citation the 1993 Toronto Film Festival; Picture Perfect, nominated for Best Short Drama at the Yorkton Film Festival; and most recently I Saw Writer’s Guild Award. Her TV work ranges from Mob Princess, a TV movie produced for Brightlight Pictures/W Network, to episodic directing on About A Girl, Noah’s Arc, Exes and Oh’s, Bliss, The Shield Stories and Da Vinci’s Inquest. Shum’s interests extend beyond film and television. Her immersive video installation You Are What You Eat was held over at the Vancouver Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Centre A, and her cinematic theatre piece All, created in collaboration with the Standing Wave Music Ensemble, was presented at the 2011 Push Festival. She has hosted sold-out events for the experimental Pecha Kucha program, and her Internet hit Hip Hop Mom was featured in Calgary’s official Canada Day celebrations. In 2004 she was invited to deliver the inaugural UBC/Laurier Institute Multicultural Lecture, entitled New Day Rising: Journey of a Hyphenated Girl, and in 2011 she was the recipient of the Sondra Kelly Writer’s Guild of Canada Award. She is currently preparing her next feature, Meditation Park.   Selwyn Jacob: Biography Selwyn Jacob was born in Trinidad and came to Canada in 1968 with the dream of becoming a filmmaker. It was a dream that wouldn’t die: he became a teacher and eventually a school principal but eventually chose to leave the security of that career to educate a wider audience through film. He has been a producer with the National Film Board of Canada since 1997. His early work as an independent director includes We Remember Amber Valley, a documentary about the black community that existed near Lac La Biche in Alberta. Prior to joining the NFB, he directed two award-winning NFB releases – Carol’s Mirror, and The Road Taken, which won the Canada Award at the 1998 Gemini Awards. In 1997 he joined the NFB’s Pacific & Yukon Studio in Vancouver, and has gone on to produce close to 50 NFB films. Among his many credits are Crazywater, directed by the Inuvialuit filmmaker Dennis Allen; Hue: A Matter of Colour, a co-production with Sepia Films, directed by Vic Sarin; Mighty Jerome, written and directed by Charles Officer; and the digital interactive project Circa 1948, by Vancouver artist Stan Douglas. Released in 2010, Mighty Jerome addresses issues of race and nationalism while paying tribute to Harry Jerome, one of the most remarkable athletes in Canadian history. The film went on to win multiple honours, including a Leo Award for Best Feature Length Documentary and the 2012 Regional Emmy Award for Best Historical Documentary.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Photo credit: Véro BoncompagniListen in today as these filmmakers, Mina Shum and Selwyn Jacobs, talk about Canada’s hidden history, implicit and explicit racism, why we need to listen to others and why they’re confident we can overcome our fears.Check out the trailer of their new NFB film Ninth Floor making its world premiere at TIFF 2015.Synopsis of FilmIt started quietly when a group of Caribbean students, strangers in a cold new land, began to suspect their professor of racism. It ended in the most explosive student uprising Canada had ever known. Over four decades later, Ninth Floor reopens the file on the Sir George Williams Riot – a watershed moment in Canadian race relations and one of the most contested episodes in the nation’s history.It was the late 60s, change was in the air, and a restless new generation was claiming its place– but nobody at Sir George Williams University would foresee the chaos to come.On February 11, 1969, riot police stormed the occupied floors of the main building, making multiple arrests. As fire consumed the 9th floor computer centre, a torrent of debris rained onto counter-protesters chanting racist slogans – and scores of young lives were thrown into turmoil. Making a sophisticated and audacious foray into meta-documentary, writer and director Mina Shum meets the original protagonists in clandestine locations throughout Trinidad and Montreal, the wintry city where it all went down. And she listens. Can we hope to make peace with such a painful past? What lessons have we learned? What really happened on the 9th floor?In a cinematic gesture of redemption and reckoning, Shum attends as her subjects set the record straight – and lay their burden down. Cinematography by John Price evokes a taut sense of subterfuge and paranoia, while a spacious soundscape by Miguel Nunes and Brent Belke echoes with the lonely sound of the coldest wind in the world.Mina Shum: BiographyBorn in Hong Kong and raised in Canada, Mina Shum is an independent filmmaker and artist. “I’m the child of the Praxis Screenwriting Workshop, Cineworks Independent Film Co-op, the Canadian Film Centre and working class immigrant parents,” she says.With Ninth Floor, a production of the National Film Board of Canada, Shum has written and directed her fourth feature film and first feature documentary.Her first feature Double Happiness (1994) – developed while she was resident director at the Canadian Film Centre – premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it won a Special Jury Citation for Best Canadian Feature Film and the Toronto Metro Media Prize. It went on to win Best First Feature at the Berlin Film Festival and the Audience Award at the Torino Film Festival. Following its American premiere at Sundance, it was released theatrically in the U.S. by Fine Line/New Line Features. It was nominated for multiple Genie Awards, Canada’s top film honour, winning Best Actress for Sandra Oh, and Best Editing for Alison Grace.Shum’s second and third features – Drive, She Said (1997) and Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity (2002) – also premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity was subsequently invited to both Sundance and the Vancouver Film Festival, where it won a Special Citation for Best Screenplay (shared with co-writer Dennis Foon). It was released theatrically in Canada and the U.S.Shum’s short films include Shortchanged; Love In; Hunger; Thirsty; Me, Mom and Mona, which won a Special Jury Citation the 1993 Toronto Film Festival; Picture Perfect, nominated for Best Short Drama at the Yorkton Film Festival; and most recently I Saw Writer’s Guild Award.Her TV work ranges from Mob Princess, a TV movie produced for Brightlight Pictures/W Network, to episodic directing on About A Girl, Noah’s Arc, Exes and Oh’s, Bliss, The Shield Stories and Da Vinci’s Inquest.Shum’s interests extend beyond film and television. Her immersive video installation You Are What You Eat was held over at the Vancouver Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Centre A, and her cinematic theatre piece All, created in collaboration with the Standing Wave Music Ensemble, was presented at the 2011 Push Festival. She has hosted sold-out events for the experimental Pecha Kucha program, and her Internet hit Hip Hop Mom was featured in Calgary’s official Canada Day celebrations.In 2004 she was invited to deliver the inaugural UBC/Laurier Institute Multicultural Lecture, entitled New Day Rising: Journey of a Hyphenated Girl, and in 2011 she was the recipient of the Sondra Kelly Writer’s Guild of Canada Award.She is currently preparing her next feature, Meditation Park.Selwyn Jacob: BiographySelwyn Jacob was born in Trinidad and came to Canada in 1968 with the dream of becoming a filmmaker. It was a dream that wouldn’t die: he became a teacher and eventually a school principal but eventually chose to leave the security of that career to educate a wider audience through film. He has been a producer with the National Film Board of Canada since 1997.His early work as an independent director includes We Remember Amber Valley, a documentary about the black community that existed near Lac La Biche in Alberta. Prior to joining the NFB, he directed two award-winning NFB releases – Carol’s Mirror, and The Road Taken, which won the Canada Award at the 1998 Gemini Awards.In 1997 he joined the NFB’s Pacific & Yukon Studio in Vancouver, and has gone on to produce close to 50 NFB films. Among his many credits are Crazywater, directed by the Inuvialuit filmmaker Dennis Allen; Hue: A Matter of Colour, a co-production with Sepia Films, directed by Vic Sarin; Mighty Jerome, written and directed by Charles Officer; and the digital interactive project Circa 1948, by Vancouver artist Stan Douglas.Released in 2010, Mighty Jerome addresses issues of race and nationalism while paying tribute to Harry Jerome, one of the most remarkable athletes in Canadian history. The film went on to win multiple honours, including a Leo Award for Best Feature Length Documentary and the 2012 Regional Emmy Award for Best Historical Documentary. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

With the Toronto Film festival just ending and the Vancouver Film Festival one week away, Mike and Sean celebrate the Great White North with a pair of the most-acclaimed Canadian films of all-time, David Cronenberg's 1983 mind-bender Videodrome and Michael Snow's experimental classic Wavelength, from 1967. Along they way, they preview Sean's trip to VIFF 2014, make their picks for Essential Canadian Film and celebrate the life and work of the Greatest Canadian, Rick Moranis.

Arts Reporter Rohit Joseph reviews Agatha Christie's play "The Hollow" at the Metro Theatre; Director Brian Cochrane and Actor Scott Button chat about "Speech and Debate", the new production from Twenty Something Theatre Company. Lots of Vancouver Film Festival reviews!

While controversy continues here at UBC (http://president.ubc.ca/featured/2013/09/18/ubc-measures-announced-to-address-the-c-u-s-frosh-events/) it's also SOCAN reporting week for our station. A fine excuse to play CanCon, featuring artists who are playing in Vancouver in the near future. The notable exception being the song by Arrogant Worms, which I played since it's Int'l Talk Like A Pirate Day tomorrow. Arrrr! Tonight I broke with tradition and interviewed a non-musician. Chelsea McMullan is director of a documentary about transgendered folk musician Rae Spoon. The film has its world premiere at the upcoming Vancouver Film Festival. (a great film, so try to see it when it's here)Enjoy the rest of your week, folks, and thanks again for listening to this podcast.Cheers!val folkoasis@gmail.com

Marie Clements is an award-winning Métis performer, playwright, screenwriter, director, producer and founding Artistic Director of urban ink Productions. Her ten plays including Burning Vision, The Unnatural and Accidental Women, and Urban Tattoo have been presented on some of the most prestigious stages for Canadian and international work including the Festival de Theatre des Ameriques (Urban Tattoo 2001, Burning Vision 2003) in Montreal, and The Magnetic North Festival (Burning Vision 2003) in Ottawa, and have garnered awards including 2004 Canada-Japan Award, short listed for the 2004 Governor General's Literary Award, Jessie Richardson Awards and a Jack Webster Journalism nomination. As a writer Marie has worked in a variety of mediums including theatre, performance, film, multi-media, radio, and television. Her latest writing projects include her film Unnatural and Accidental invited to premiere at over fifteen film festivals including The MoMa Festival in New York, Toronto Film Festival, The Vancouver Film Festival and The American Indian Film Festival 2006. Currently Unnatural and Accidental has received ten nominations for the prestigious Leo Awards including Best Screenplay. As a producer and director Marie has been involved in the development of over seventy productions of new work across forms and disciplines. Copper Thunderbird will be published by Talon Books Fall 2007. She is currently Playwright in Residence at the National Arts Centre.