Face2Face with David Peck
803 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago -Face2Face is hosted by change maker David Peck and is rooted in casual conversation and intelligent inspiration. David interviews film makers, actors, writers and artists of various kinds and he does it in a fun, thoughtful and entertaining way. Check out this weekly podcast where David honors and celebrates people who believe in the power of little things, the splash and ripple effect and who are rolling up their sleeves to make the world a better place.
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Episodes
Bias, Leadership & Mistakes
June 23, 2020 15:13 - 1 hour - 46 MBMazarine Treyz and Face2Face host David Peck talk about the non-profit sector, relationship building, “staff and donor love”, cultures of mistakes, leadership and values, cognitive bias, authenticity and transparency, why it’s a great time to experiment. Find out more about Wild Woman Fundraising. About Mazarine: Mazarine Treyz is the CEO of Wild Woman Fundraising, a national fundraising training company. Her organization trains people with online conferences, webinars, workshops, and 10+...
Addiction & The Opioid Crisis
June 19, 2020 13:37 - 52 minutes - 35.9 MBJoey Klein and Face2Face host David Peck talk about his new film Castle In The Ground, the opioid crisis, addiction and empathy, vulnerability and bearing witness and about why we need to share the planet. Trailer Watch the film here in iTunes. Synopsis: Henry (Alex Wolff) is a devout caretaker of his chronically ill single mother (Neve Campbell). His girlfriend, and lone support system, is about to leave for college. His relatives and their obligatory condolences frustrate more than com...
Impact Investing & Opportunity
June 11, 2020 13:38 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MBDavid O’Leary and Face2Face host David Peck talk about opportunity and impact investing, burn rates, cultural taboos, entrepreneurship, and why you need to hope for the best and plan for the worst. More info here about Kind Wealth here. About David: David O’Leary is Founder & Principal at Kind Wealth, a social enterprise dedicated to democratizing access to high-quality and unbiased financial advice for underserved Canadians. Previously David was Managing Director of Origin Capital; th...
Media, Influence, Fake News
June 08, 2020 16:06 - 49 minutes - 34 MBRichard, Dianne and Face2Face host David Peck talk about Influence, fake news, lies and untruth, oppression and power, information overload, moral arcs and the politics of spectacle. Trailer Get tickets at Hot Docs online. And learn more about the film here. Synopsis: Influence is a profile of the morally slippery British reputation manager, Lord Timothy Bell. Born into a modest working class family, Bell climbed his way to the heights of global power, first spinning Margaret Thatcher i...
Mexico's Traumatic Past
June 05, 2020 16:06 - 47 minutes - 86.8 MBRodrigo Reyes and Face2Face host David Peck talk about 499, time travel, Colonialism, the importance of listening, trauma and systemic violence, the destruction of knowledge and the beauty of cinema. Trailer Get tickets here at Hot Docs online. And learn more about the film here. Synopsis: The year 2021 marks the 500-year anniversary of the Spanish Conquest of Mexico. To commemorate the historical occasion, director Rodrigo Reyes offers a bold, hybrid cinema experience, mixing non-fict...
Episode 504 - Liz Marshall - Meat The Future
May 27, 2020 17:38 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MBLiz Marshall and Face2Face host David Peck talk about Meat the Future, big, urgent questions, the good food institute, our moral compass, solution focused stories and clean meat. Trailer More info here about Meat The Future here. Stream it now on CBC Gem. Synopsis: With animal agriculture occupying roughly 45% of the world’s ice-free surface area, producing more greenhouse gases than cars, the prospect of meat consumption doubling by 2050 is a wake-up call for solutions. The future may ...
Episode 503 - Tamara Dawit - Finding Sally
May 21, 2020 14:08 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MBTamara Dawit and Face2Face host David Peck talk about Finding Sally, Ethiopia, collective memory, history, imperialism, the red terror, cultures of silence and intergenerational conversations. Trailer More info here about Finding Sally here. Stream it now on CBC Gem. Synopsis: Finding Sally tells the incredible story of a 23-year-old woman from an upper-class family who became a communist rebel with the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party. Idealistic and in love, Sally got caught u...
Episode 502 Miranda Bailey and Cherry Picks
May 13, 2020 19:45 - 37 minutes - 26 MBMiranda Bailey and Face2Face host David Peck talk about changing the way we see content, CherryPicks, Gender imbalance, a new kind of film community, diversity, perspective and the female voice. More info here about CherryPicks here. CherryPicks is the place to find out what women are thinking about movies. “At CherryPicks we believe the people who review films need to be as diverse as the people who watch them. We are the place to find out what women are thinking about movies. That’s why...
Brett Gaylor - The Internet of Everything
May 06, 2020 15:39 - 47 minutes - 32.9 MBBrett Gaylor and Face2Face host David Peck talk about his new film The Internet of Everything, advertising and activism, the digital arms race, the third industrial revolution and learning how to respond to a crisis. Watch the film on CBC Gem now. Synopsis: The Internet is invading all aspects of our lives. No longer confined to computers or phones, the Internet is now in refrigerators, and toilets, and is the infrastructure of our cities. The future will either be a surveillance nightmar...
Anastasia Phillips - Tammy's Always Dying
April 30, 2020 14:02 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBAnastasia Phillips and Face2Face host David Peck talk about her new film Tammy’s Always Dying, mental health issues, perspective, vanity, therianthropy and winemaking and why she never judges a character. Trailer Synopsis: On the 29th of every month, right when the welfare money runs out, Catherine talks her alcoholic mother Tammy off the ledge of the same bridge. This routine has gone on for so long that it’s the only thing Cathy feels she’s good at. And its Tammy’s selfish way of keepin...
Episode 499 - Ellen Toland and Inside the Rain
April 22, 2020 19:30 - 34 minutes - 63.4 MBEllen Toland and Face2Face host David Peck talk about her new film Inside the Rain, living legends, mental illness, big goofy hearts, the resilience of artists and why sometimes people appear in our lives for only a season. Trailer Watch it on Apple TV, Prime, Google Play, Tubi and others… And learn more about the film here. Synopsis: College film student Benjamin Glass (Aaron Fisher) has it all: ADHD, OCD, borderline personality. And he’s also bipolar. But Glass is more than his dia...
Episode 498 - Daniel Stern - James vs. His Future Self
April 14, 2020 18:42 - 22 minutes - 15.3 MBDaniel Stern and Face2Face host David Peck talk about his new film James vs. His Future Self, sculpting, good conversation, staying focused, regret and living in the moment, and why there’s no ketchup in the future. Trailer Watch it on: Bell On Demand, Shaw and iTunes. Synopsis: When an uptight time-travelling obsessed young scientist is visited by his nihilistic future self, he's told that he needs to give up his dream of becoming the world's first time traveler, or else. But when he wo...
Episode 497 - Dr. Mazen Kamen
April 08, 2020 16:36 - 36 minutes - 24.7 MBDr. Mazen Kamen and Face2Face host David Peck talk about the complexity of the Brain, emotions, faith and grief, making good choices, chronic illness, the tip of the research iceberg and diseases that are no longer death sentences. About the Foundation: The Kamen Brain Tumor Foundation is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to improving the treatment and survival of children with glioma brain tumors through the funding of pediatric glioma brain tumor research. Our Scientific Adviso...
Episode 496 - Jonathan Jakubowicz - Resistance
March 31, 2020 15:45 - 37 minutes - 52 MBJonathan Jakubowicz and Face2Face host David Peck talk about his new film Resistance that stars Ed Harris, Jesse Eisenberg and Clémence Poésy. They talk about inspiration and why artists create, responsibility and pushing back, connecting with an audience, Marcel Marceau, the art of silence and making the invisible visible. Trailer Watch it on iTunes and Amazon Prime Synopsis: All Marcel Marceau (Jesse Eisenberg) wants is a life for the arts. Working at his father’s butcher shop during t...
Episode 495 - Hockey Mom - Teyama Alkamli & Andrew Moir
March 26, 2020 23:56 - 41 minutes - 76.7 MBTeyama Alkamli and Andrew Moir and Face2Face host David Peck talk about their new film Hockey Mom, Syria, motherhood and refugees, new Canadians, survival jobs, and something called the newcomer kitchen . Trailer Watch it here. Synopsis: Hockey Mom is an intimate, character-driven film that follows a single Syrian mother and her young son rebuilding their life in Toronto with the support of Canada’s private refugee sponsorship program. When the Syrian war tore her life apart, Fatm...
Episode 494 - Karim Sayad - My English Cousin
March 18, 2020 17:36 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBKarim Sayad and Face2Face host David Peck talk about his new and intimate film My English Cousin, the myth of Sisyphus, international relations, feeling at home and finding beauty in simple stories. Trailer Synopsis: This keenly observed documentary by Karim Sayad follows the director's cousin, Fahed, who left Algeria for England in 2001 and, now, contemplates returning to his place of birth. In 2001, Fahed left Algeria for England, settling in, of all places, Grimsby. Nearly two decades ...
Episode 493 - Alanis Obomsawin - The Messenger
March 11, 2020 15:07 - 34 minutes - 24 MBAlanis Obomsawin and Face2Face host David Peck talk about reconciliation, leaving a legacy, Jordan’s Principles, passion, commitment, advocacy, fighting back and why every child matters. Trailer More Info Here Synopsis: It took one little boy, Jordan River Anderson, to ensure that thousands of First Nations and Inuit children can today receive the same standard of social, health and education services as the rest of the Canadian population. In Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger, Alanis...
Episode 492 - Barbara Kopple and Desert One
February 26, 2020 13:02 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MBBarbara Kopple and Face2Face host David Peck talk about curiosity, politics and historical unknowns, rich and complex stories, the magic of people, being better informed and why she’s always been a good listener. Synopsis: It has been called “the most audacious, difficult, complicated, rescue mission ever attempted.” Desert One uniquely blends emotion and bravado to tell the incredible tale of America’s secret mission to free the hostages of the 1979 Iranian revolution. Two-time Academy...
Episode 491 - Peter Tabuns & Mark Johnston - Political Blind Date
February 21, 2020 01:23 - 43 minutes - 30.2 MBPeter Tabuns, Mark Johnston and Face2Face host David Peck talk about politics, the art of conversation, logic and passion, hydro rates, climate change and the environment and finding common ground. For more info about the series head here. Synopsis: Many politicians, from all levels of government, will admit that they never have time to sit down and meet one-on-one. Wouldn’t it be great if they had the opportunity to explore each other’s personal perspectives, motivations, histo...
Logic, Climate Change & Hydro Rates
February 21, 2020 01:23 - 43 minutes - 30.2 MBPeter Tabuns, Mark Johnston and Face2Face host David Peck talk about politics, the art of conversation, logic and passion, hydro rates, climate change and the environment and finding common ground. For more info about the series head here. Synopsis: Many politicians, from all levels of government, will admit that they never have time to sit down and meet one-on-one. Wouldn’t it be great if they had the opportunity to explore each other’s personal perspectives, motivations, histories and ...
Episode 490 - Brad Jersak
February 19, 2020 12:52 - 51 minutes - 35.3 MBBrad Jersak and Face2Face host David Peck talk about religiosity, alienation and separation, the truth of our beings, faith and doubt statements, following a ‘script’ versus leading a life of love, reality, truth and justice. For more info about Brad head here. Check out his blog here. About Brad: By now, most of his social networks and some of his readership have heard of his move into the Eastern Orthodox Church. He was ‘chrismated’ at the end of June, 2013 and tonsured as a ‘re...
Episode 489 - Pat Collins and Henry Glassie - Field Work
February 12, 2020 13:06 - 44 minutes - 30.3 MBPat Collins and Henry Glassie and Face2Face host David Peck talk about Field Work, beauty, non-verbal cues, silence and listening, eliminating prejudice, and why art is always rooted in community. Trailer Synopsis: Following the success of Song of Granite, Irish Director Pat Collins returns with his new documentary feature, Henry Glassie: Field Work, which will have its world premiere at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival. Over the last 50 years the celebrated Ame...
Episode 488 - Sami Khan - St. Louis Superman
February 04, 2020 12:08 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBSami Khan and Face2Face host David Peck talk about the new film St. Louis Superman, reconciliation and battle rapping, solidarity and our shared history and being seduced by the outrage of the moment. Trailer Synopsis: Bruce Franks Jr. is a 34-year-old battle rapper, Ferguson activist and state representative from St. Louis, Missouri. Known as Superman to his constituents, he is a political figure the likes of which you've never seen - full of contradictions and deep insights, who has ove...
Episode 487 - Liz Forkin Bohannon - Beginner's Pluck
January 30, 2020 13:11 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MBLiz Forkin Bohannon and Face2Face host David Peck talk about her new book Beginner's Pluck, optimism, why you might just be average after all, story telling and how it can change a life, social consciousness, leaning in and listening to others and about the remarkable start up story of Sseko Designs and its beginning. You can buy the book here. Synopsis: Social entrepreneur and motivational speaker, Liz Forkin Bohannon will release her first book, Beginner’s Pluck: Build Your Life o...
Episode 486 - Cornelia Principe - Prey
January 26, 2020 23:41 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MBCornelia Principe and Face2Face host David Peck talk her new film Prey, justice, survivors guilt, truth, oppression and the abuse of power and why external oversight will be required for meaningful reform within the structure of the church. Trailer The film is now streaming on TVO Winner – Roger’s Audience Award for Best Canadian Documentary – Hot Docs 2019 Winner – Special Jury Prize for Best Canadian Feature Documentary – Hot Docs 2019 Synopsis: Prey follows London, Ontario...
Episode 485 - Richard Bell - Brotherhood
January 21, 2020 13:02 - 42 minutes - 29 MBRichard Bell and Face2Face host David Peck talk his new film Brotherhood, dignity and self sacrifice, putting others before ourselves, rites of passage, real boys and toxic masculinity. Trailer The film be will be available on the Super Channel in March 2020. Synopsis: Based on the harrowing true story that made newspaper headlines across North America in the 1920s, Brotherhood is a taut survival drama that feels timely and modern in this era of the very real Boy Crisis. A bris...
Episode 484 - Peter Albrechtsen - The Cave
January 19, 2020 18:18 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBPeter Albrechtsen and Face2Face host David Peck talk about Feras Fayyad's new film The Cave, sonic landscapes, fragility and fear, Syrian women in leadership, strength, resilience and sound as a storyteller. Trailer For more info about the film head here. Synopsis: Oscar nominee Feras Fayyad (Last Men in Aleppo) delivers an unflinching story of the Syrian war with his powerful new documentary, The Cave. For besieged civilians, hope and safety lie underground inside the subterranean hospi...
Episode 483 - Heather Young - Murmur
January 15, 2020 12:59 - 42 minutes - 29.1 MBHeather Young and Face2Face host David Peck talk about her new film Murmur, loneliness, solitude and quiet desperation, relationships and our desire for love, inclusion and connection with others. Trailer Synopsis: Murmur follows Donna, a sixty-something year-old who is scheduled to perform community service in an animal rescue shelter following a DUI charge. Over time Donna begins to relate to the abandoned animals that surround her and she forms a particular bond with a senior do...
Episode 482 - Dekel Berenson - Anna
January 07, 2020 12:50 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MBDekel Berenson and Face2Face host David Peck talk about his beautiful new short film Anna, hard work and luck, politics and activism, child labour, allegory and truth and why movies should never just be entertaining. Trailer Synopsis: Anna, a middle-aged single mother, lives in a small industrial town in war-torn Eastern Ukraine. She works in a meat processing plant, lives in a rundown apartment and dreams for a better life for herself and her 16-year-old daughter. Desperate fo...
Episode 481 - Sophie Deraspe - Antigone
January 02, 2020 13:04 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MBSophie Deraspe and Face2Face host David Peck talk about her new film Antigone, Greek tragedies, empathy, dignity, resistance and trusting and following your heart Trailer Synopsis: Antigone is a moving, compassionate and beautiful story and it won the best film at TIFF 2019. Gripping, powerful, and of-the-moment, Antigone loosely adapts Sophocles' Greek tragedy and situates it in contemporary Montreal. The latest from critically acclaimed Québécois writer-director Sophie Deraspe (The Wol...
Episode 480 - Karl Markovics & Nobadi
December 30, 2019 12:33 - 36 minutes - 24.8 MBKarl Markovics and Face2Face host David Peck talk about his new film Nobadi, national socialism, guilt, fear and shame, fairytales for grown ups, Ulysses and why freedom scares us. Trailer Synopsis: Heinrich Senft, a 93 year old, cranky pensioner, lives on a small allotment in Vienna. His dog died during the night and he wants to dig a hole behind his cabin to bury him. But failing to dig it himself he begrudgingly hires a young man from Afghanistan, Adib. While the two struggle...
Episode 479 - François Girard - The Song of Names
December 24, 2019 14:50 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBFrançois Girard and Face2Face host David Peck talk about his new film The Song of Names, history, remembrance, choices, mystery and discovery, film as music, the paradox of technology and musical, archeological digs. Trailer Synopsis: Martin Simmonds (Tim Roth) has been haunted throughout his life by the mysterious disappearance of his “brother” and extraordinary best friend, a Polish Jewish virtuoso violinist, Dovidl Rapaport, who vanished shortly before the 1951 London debut c...
Yaron Zilberman, Yehuda Nahari Halevi and Incitement
December 19, 2019 04:19 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MBYaron Zilberman, Yehuda Nahari Halevi and Face2Face host David Peck talk about their new film Incitement, the complicated history of the Middle East, justice, peace and racism, inclusion, war and the real cost of radicalization. Trailer Synopsis: “This rigorous psychological thriller by American-Israeli director Yaron Zilberman (A Late Quartet) depicts the lead-up to the 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin through the worldview of his assassin, Yigal Amir....
Episode 477 - Robert Fisk and Yung Chang
December 12, 2019 12:28 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MBRobert Fisk and Yung Chang and Face2Face host David Peck talk about their new film This Is Not A Movie, fake news and journalism, our addiction to social media, complicity, a “dead language”, and something called, “apparent clarity.” Trailer Synopsis: For more than 40 years, journalist Robert Fisk has reported on some of the most violent and divisive conflicts in the world: Northern Ireland, the Balkans, and Syria. Yong Chang’s This Is Not a Movie captures Fisk in action—feet on ...
Episode 476 - Klaudia Reynicke & Barbara Giordano
December 10, 2019 12:22 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBKlaudia Reynicke Barbara Giordano and Face2Face host David Peck talk about their new film Love Me Tender, anti-superheroes, mental health issues, agoraphobia, connecting with others and the sometime difficult journeys we all seem to take. Trailer Synopsis: The daily life of a 32-year-old woman suffering from agoraphobia, SECONDA, suddenly changes when her mother dies and her father abandons her. Alone and unable to leave her home, she clings to the phone messages of a snarling b...
Episode 475 August Diehl & Valerie Pachner, A Hidden Life
December 06, 2019 12:43 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MBAugust Diehl and Valerie Pachner and Face2Face host David Peck talk about Terence Malik’s new film A Hidden Life, true love, pacifism and evil, truth and justice, taking an ethical stance and standing up to power. Trailer Synopsis: “..for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” George ...
Episode 474 - Mahnaz Mohammadi, Farzad Pak on Son-Mother
December 03, 2019 13:03 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBMahnaz Mohammadi, Farzad Pak and Face2Face host David Peck talk about their new film Son/Mother, activism, family, choices and women’s rights, tradition, values and storytelling, patriarchy, empathy and how things do change bit by bit, over time. Trailer Synopsis: Leila is a single working mom of two. The factory she works at faces a crisis and jobs are at stake. Kazem, the factory bus driver, proposes marriage to Leila, but she hesitates to accept his conditions. Kazem has a da...
Episode 476 - Mahnaz Mohammadi, Farzad Pak on Son-Mother
December 03, 2019 13:03 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBMahnaz Mohammadi, Farzad Pak and Face2Face host David Peck talk about their new film Son/Mother, activism, family, choices and women’s rights, tradition, values and storytelling, patriarchy, empathy and how things do change bit by bit, over time. Trailer Synopsis: Leila is a single working mom of two. The factory she works at faces a crisis and jobs are at stake. Kazem, the factory bus driver, proposes marriage to Leila, but she hesitates to accept his conditions. Kazem has a da...
Episode 473 - Crazy World & Wakaliwood
November 28, 2019 13:21 - 41 minutes - 28.2 MBIGG Nabwana, VJ Emmie and Alan Ssali Hofmanis talk about their new film Crazy World, African storytelling, action films, traditions and taking chances and the super success of the Ugandan Wakaliwood. Trailer Synopsis: In the latest from Uganda’s gonzo action auteur IGG Nabwana, a gang of child-snatching mobsters make a fatal mistake when they kidnap the Waka Stars, a team of pint-sized kung-fu masters who soon turn their cunning wits and deadly skills upon their captors. For ...
Episode 475 - Crazy World & Wakaliwood
November 28, 2019 13:21 - 41 minutes - 28.2 MBIGG Nabwana, VJ Emmie and Alan Ssali Hofmanis talk about their new film Crazy World, African storytelling, action films, traditions and taking chances and the super success of the Ugandan Wakaliwood. Trailer Synopsis: In the latest from Uganda’s gonzo action auteur IGG Nabwana, a gang of child-snatching mobsters make a fatal mistake when they kidnap the Waka Stars, a team of pint-sized kung-fu masters who soon turn their cunning wits and deadly skills upon their captors. For...
Episode 472 - Fisher Stevens and Malcolm Venville - And We Go Green
November 22, 2019 13:43 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBFisher Stevens and Malcolm Venville and Face2Face host David Peck talk about their new film And We Go Green, the environment, Climate Change, eco-capitalists, Electric Cars, Formula E and social innovation. Trailer Synopsis: Formula E, the groundbreaking electric car racing series, has grown from upstart championship to the world's fastest growing sport in 4 short years. Through its pulsating and unpredictable racing spectacle featuring the most skillful drivers and most advance...
Episode 474 - Fisher Stevens and Malcolm Venville - And We Go Green
November 22, 2019 13:43 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBFisher Stevens and Malcolm Venville and Face2Face host David Peck talk about their new film And We Go Green, the environment, Climate Change, eco-capitalists, Electric Cars, Formula E and social innovation. Trailer Synopsis: Formula E, the groundbreaking electric car racing series, has grown from upstart championship to the world's fastest growing sport in 4 short years. Through its pulsating and unpredictable racing spectacle featuring the most skillful drivers and most advance...
Episode 471 Jan Komasa and Corpus Christi
November 18, 2019 15:07 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBJan Komasa and Face2Face host David Peck talk about his brilliant, engaging, thoughtful new film Corpus Christi, redemption and the power of communities to reconcile and restore, the Polish Bible Belt, shame, guilt and forgiveness and the ability to healing through our relationships with others. Trailer “Komasa directs with an impressive rigor that fits the subject matter, and the incorporation of subtle ecclesiastical embellishments in the score adds to the imposing solemnity. The ...
Episode 470 Steve Gamester & Rebecca Snow - Cheating Hitler
November 13, 2019 13:16 - 46 minutes - 32.3 MBRebecca Snow and Steve Gamester and Face2Face host David Peck talk about their new film Cheating Hitler: Surviving The Holocaust, survivors guilt, meaningful history and the power of memory, pivotal moments in personal stories and why we never should forget. Trailer You can watch the film here. Synopsis: Rose, Maxwell and Helen were 10, 9 and 7 years old when the Second World War began. Robbed of their childhood, they were old before they were young. They endured the terr...
Episode 469 - John Walker and Aaron James - Assholes: A Theory
November 06, 2019 22:55 - 47 minutes - 32.8 MBJohn Walker and Aaron James and Face2Face host David Peck talk about their new film Assholes: A Theory, the public good, economics and indifference, activism and authoritarianism, capitalism and greed, public spaces and shared prosperity. Trailer You Can Buy the Book here. Synopsis: Ever get the feeling that assholes are taking over the world? Bad behaviour is as old as human history, something we all encounter at some point—whether on the playground, in the workplace or in pu...
Coky Giedroyc - How To Build A Girl
November 04, 2019 13:40 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBCoky Giedroyc and Face2Face host David Peck talk about her new film How To Build a Girl, friendship, loyalty and family, discovery and how life unfolds in front of us in a real, messy and wonderful way and the uncertain personal journeys we all seem to take. Synopsis: Johanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein) is a sixteen-year-old, extrovert from the outskirts of Wolverhampton with raging hormones and gigantic dreams. Even though she loves her big, boisterous, dysfunctional family, Johann...
Episode 467 - Shawney Cohen on Rat Park
October 31, 2019 11:18 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MBShawney Cohen and Face2Face host David Peck talk about his new Rat Park, addiction, mental health, context and environment, boredom and drug decriminalization and rats that meditate. Trailer Watch on CRAVE TV and for more info on the film head here. Synopsis: The secret to solving the world’s drug crisis lies in a forgotten psychology experiment involving rats and heroin. Thirty years later, RAT PARK shows how the experiment’s radical findings are more relevant than ever. ...
Episode 466 - Garin Hovannisian & Serj Tankian
October 24, 2019 11:08 - 27 minutes - 18.6 MBGarin Hovannisian, Serj Tankian and Face2Face host David Peck talk about their new film I Am Not Alone, politics and protest, Armenia and the Velvet Revolution, citizen protests, activism, advocacy pessimism and hope. Trailer Synopsis: On Easter 2018, a man put on a backpack and went live on Facebook to announce that he was beginning a walk across Armenia. His mission: to inspire a velvet revolution — and topple the corrupt regime that enjoys absolute power in his post-soviet natio...
Lisa Fiorilli on Passion, People, Statistics, and Art
October 20, 2019 13:02 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MBLisa Fiorilli and Face2Face host David Peck talk about working in the cultural sector, diversity and inclusion, passion and people, statistics, and the perception and definition of art. Making It Work: WorkInCulture is a non-profit arts service organization that supports the people who work in the cultural sector in Ontario through life-long career development and entrepreneurial and business skills training. Specifically, WIC is recognized for its Job Board and for connecting employ...
Episode 464 - Andrea Hummel and Improv for Peace
October 11, 2019 12:10 - 42 minutes - 28.9 MBAndrea Hummel and Face2Face host David Peck talk about cultural diversity, political correctness, policy over practice, trauma and safe space, empathy and understanding and why being a hermit might not be a great idea. Improve for Peace is a group that helps organizations, communities and professionals actively resolve miscommunication. Participants re-script their past via experiential learning. They use guided improvisations to do in a workshop setting what they can’t always do in real...