Nathalie Younglai
The Firecracker Department - The Blaze Sessions Season 02
English - March 02, 2021 22:10 - 1 hour - 61.3 MBTV & Film Arts conversation actor creative filmmaker interview women womeninfilm Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Our guest on the show this week, our ONE HUNDREDTH Firecracker, is writer, director, producer, founder of BIPOC TV & Film NATHALIE YOUNGLAI Natalie’s gone from being a professional harpist to reality TV Director, to Screenwriter! Right now, Nathalie’s working on a few projects in development and is a Writer/Co-Producer on CBC’s Coroner, which you can catch new episodes of on Wednesdays at 8pm Eastern on CBC or the CBC Gem App.
Nathalie founded BIPOC TV & Film, a grassroots organization advocating for meaningful representation of Black, Indigenous and People of Colour in front and behind the camera. They recently launched the amazing HireBIPOC dot c-a, an online industry-wide roster of Canadian BIPOC creatives and crew working in screen-based industries. We’re big fans, to say the least. She’s truly a changemaker.
In 2020 she was the recipient of the 2020 Canadian Screen Awards special Humanitarian Award AND named one of NOW Magazine’s 2020 Trailblazers. She was even nominated for a Daytime Emmy for her writing on Dino Dana!
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Nathalie Photo Credit: Gezilayefa Azorbo
Head Producer: Winnie Wong @wonder_wong
Head Editor: Sydney Neilson @sydney_neilson