Push In - The CineVic Podcast
74 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 23 hours ago -It's not easy being an independent filmmaker. Host Joyce Kline digs into all things indie film, going behind the scenes to ask real questions for the inside scoop. This podcast is where you'll find out everything new coming to CineVic, Victoria, BC, Canada’s artist-run independent film society.
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S4E5 - Creating Caring Sets w/ Ana de Lara (pt. 2)
April 22, 2024 13:00 - 10 minutes - 6.9 MBWhen you’re on set and your film deals with the potentially triggering subject of suicide, how do you provide for the physical and emotional needs of a diverse cast and crew? This was the challenge that led filmmaker Ana de Lara to collaborate with Women In the Director’s Chair to develop a ground breaking new program called Safer Creative Spaces. In this episode, Ana shares how the program helped her create a more caring environment on the set of her upcoming web series Best Friend Me. An...
S4E4 - Making Anything Funny w/ Ana de Lara
March 28, 2024 13:00 - 10 minutes - 6.91 MBIs your concept brave enough to be “not safe, taboo," or “mean and awful”? Filipina/Canadian filmmaker Ana de Lara thinks it just might make a great comedy! In Part I of our interview with this multiple award-winning Filipina/Canadian actor/writer/director/producer, Ana tells us about Best Friend Me—her six-episode comedy web series that involves the topic of...suicide? Learn from this comedy pro how she works with family, knows when an idea has legs, and how you too, can “make anything ...
S4E3 - Mind Control & Synchronicity w/ Emanuel Foucault
March 15, 2024 13:00 - 10 minutes - 6.91 MBThe brutal “treatments” that the Canadian government and CIA jointly funded at the height of the Cold War era’s brainwashing paranoia are the stuff of nightmares. Patients with diagnoses as innocent as postpartum depression were rendered virtual zombies for life, creating a legacy of intergenerational trauma and perpetrator guilt that inspired filmmaker Emanuel Foucault’s riveting short film Washer. In this episode Emanuel describes: · The devastating mind control experiments conducted...
S4E3 Mind Control & Synchronicity – w/ Emanuel Foucault
March 15, 2024 13:00 - 10 minutes - 6.91 MBThe brutal “treatments” that the Canadian government and CIA jointly funded at the height of the Cold War era’s brainwashing paranoia are the stuff of nightmares. Patients with diagnoses as innocent as postpartum depression were rendered virtual zombies for life creating a legacy of intergenerational trauma and perpetrator guilt that inspired filmmaker Emanuel Foucault’s riveting short film Washer. In this episode Emanuel describes: · The devastating mind control experiments conducted ...
S4E2 - What Really Worked w/ Connor Gaston
February 27, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes - 6.91 MBIf 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 T...
S4E1 - Beautiful Disasters w/ Connor Gaston
February 06, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes - 6.91 MBThere’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...
S3E18 - When A Good Story Comes Along w/ David Malysheff
December 19, 2023 14:00 - 10 minutes - 6.91 MBLast episode, we heard from one of the most requested camera operators in Canada, award-winning, daredevil cinematographer DAVID MALYSHEFF. David is known for delivering the goods under extreme conditions - filming from horseback, helicopters, and even Zodiacs crashing their way through rapids. This episode, David fills us in on his quieter, but no less moving, personal passion project - creating a 90-minute documentary on the late Jewish composer Peter Gary and Gary’s epic holocaust orat...
S3E17 - Celebrity Stories and Scary Moments w/ David Malysheff
December 12, 2023 14:00 - 10 minutes - 6.91 MBNot many cinematographers shoot on submarines or from horseback, helicopters and kayaks - but today’s guest filmmaker, award-winning industry veteran David Malysheff, has done exactly that. With more than 25 years of television production experience in film and broadcast video, David Malysheff has been behind the camera on numerous Canadian TV shows including The Nature of Things, The Fifth Estate, The Amazing Race, Moosemeat & Marmalade, Canada’s Next Top Model and the moving documentar...
S3E17 – Celebrity Stories and Scary Moments w/ David Malysheff
December 12, 2023 14:00 - 10 minutes - 6.91 MBNot many cinematographers shoot on submarines or from horseback, helicopters and kayaks - but today’s filmmaker, award-winning industry veteran David Malysheff, has done exactly that. With more than 25 years of television production experience in film and broadcast video, David Malysheff has been behind the camera on numerous Canadian TV shows including The Nature of Things, The Fifth Estate, The Amazing Race, Moosemeat & Marmalade, Canada’s Next Top Model and the moving documentary Us a...
S3E16 - Breaking Down Barriers w/ Lesley Marshall
November 30, 2023 14:00 - 10 minutes - 6.91 MBFilm sets are high pressure environments with brutally long hours and the traditionally hierarchical structure of a military campaign. In this episode, filmmaker and much sought-after editor Lesley Marshall tells us how she balances the needs of her young daughter with her work in the film industry, why she thinks we should demand on set childcare, and what employing anti-oppression based filmmaking and horizontal leadership structures would look like. Lesley is an award-winning filmmaker w...
S3E15 - How I Crowd Funded over $102,000 w/ Denver Jackson
October 06, 2023 13:00 - 10 minutes - 6.91 MBUnless you’re already a well-heeled nepo baby, this might be the one Push In episode you literally can’t afford to miss! Last episode, Push In interviewed filmmaker Denver Jackson, the brilliant creator and one-man animation team behind the web series Esluna: The Crown of Babylon, the feature Esluna: The First Monolith and the upcoming feature The Worlds Divide. This episode, Denver shares how he’s financed his films, why he picked Kickstarter as his crowd funding platform, his fundraising...
S3E14 - A Life I Wouldn't Recommend w/ Denver Jackson
September 21, 2023 13:00 - 10 minutes - 6.91 MBPride yourself on being hard working and dedicated to your art? Well, this interview with award-winning Victoria animator Denver Jackson will make you feel like a total slacker! Buckle up as this one-man powerhouse shares how he got into animation, the brutal details of his typical work day, the importance of keeping focus to complete projects, and why he’ll never use generative AI. Denver Jackson has singlehandedly written, directed, animated and edited numerous award-winning short animati...
S3E13 - Curtains for Pic a Flic? w/ Kent Bendall
July 13, 2023 13:00 - 9 minutes - 6.88 MBThis September, after over 40 years, Victoria’s iconic Pic A Flic Video will close, imperiling its unrivaled collection of 25,000 cult classics, musicals, foreign films, sci-fi, short films, silent movies, independent animations and rare documentaries you can’t find anywhere else. Video stores may be an endangered species, but losing this treasure trove of film history would be an extinction event! That’s why Push In’s host Joyce Kline and director Paul Ruta teamed up to interview film buf...
S3E12- Birds & Bees, Sexy Sushi & Hot Buns w/ Calleen Koh
June 19, 2023 13:00 - 10 minutes - 6.91 MBHost Joyce Kline reaches across the Pacific for a fun chat with Singapore based, BAFTA-nominated animator Calleen Koh. Calleen’s short To Kill the Birds and the Bees—a real highlight of this year’s Short Circuit Pacific Rim Film Festival—will screen again in Ottawa June 21st as part of Short Circuit’s National Tour. Hear how this talented young filmmaker stays gutsy with her daring and quirky material and her take on everything from Catholic Sex Ed and the filmmaking scene in Singapore, ...
S3E12 - Birds & Bees, Sexy Sushi & Hot Buns w/ Calleen Koh
June 19, 2023 13:00 - 10 minutes - 6.91 MBHost Joyce Kline reaches across the Pacific for a fun chat with Singapore based, BAFTA-nominated animator Calleen Koh. Calleen’s short To Kill the Birds and the Bees—a real highlight of this year’s Short Circuit Pacific Rim Film Festival—will screen again in Ottawa June 21st as part of Short Circuit’s National Tour. Hear how this talented young filmmaker stays gutsy with her daring and quirky material and her take on everything from Catholic Sex Ed and the filmmaking scene in Singapore, ...
S3E11- Pools of Blood & Shallow Graves w/ Sonya Chwyl & Anik Desmarais-Spencer
June 14, 2023 13:00 - 10 minutes - 6.91 MBIn this fun episode, Joyce meets up with writing/directing team Sonya Chwyl and Anik Desmarais-Spencer. Their latest short horror comedy Slip poses a sadly relatable question for these inflationary times: “How far will you go to keep your shitty rental?” Slip just won Audience Choice at this year’s Short Circuit Pacific Film Festival and you can watch it on the big screen for free in Regina, Ottawa and St. John’s as part of Short Circuit’s 2023 National Tour. Anik and Sonya’s last film Ba...
S3E10 - Perfect Pitch w/ 2022 Cinespark Winner Daniel Kwon
June 02, 2023 13:00 - 10 minutes - 6.91 MBWhat’s it like to pitch to a panel of judges in front of a live theatre audience— when you think you’re awful at pitching? That was the challenge for multi-talented filmmaker Daniel Kwon, the writer, director, editor and co-producer of 2022’s Cinespark winning film The Girl in the Forest. Daniel is a true renaissance man: filmmaker, screenwriter, director, editor, colorist, set decorator, videographer, graphic designer, motion graphic design, storyboard artist and animator. Fresh from his f...
S3E10 – Perfect Pitch w/ 2022 Cinespark Winner Daniel Kwon
June 02, 2023 13:00 - 10 minutes - 6.91 MBWhat’s it like to pitch to a panel of judges in front of a live theatre audience— when you think you’re awful at pitching? That was the challenge for multi-talented filmmaker Daniel Kwon, the writer, director, editor and co-producer of 2022’s Cinespark winning film The Girl in the Forest. Daniel is a true renaissance man: filmmaker, screenwriter, director, editor, colorist, set decorator, videographer, graphic designer, motion graphic design, storyboard artist and animator. Fresh from his f...
S3E9 - Time Honoured Tools for a Modern Message w/ James Hunter
May 25, 2023 13:00 - 10 minutes - 6.91 MBEvery screenplay has at least one element that a filmmaker knows is going to be tricky to carry off. But when the script demands you track down an elusive rare bird and find a location where an actor can safely fell a giant tree with a hand axe, you’re going to have to get extra creative. How director James Hunter, with the help of producer Faith Gouga, managed to pull all this off in their haunting short film NEST—is a fascinating tale all on its own. James is an award-winning Australian ...
S3E8 - When Your Autobiographical Film Exposes Your Family w/ Jamie Lam
May 19, 2023 13:00 - 10 minutes - 6.91 MBRevealing what your family’s really like behind the scenes can be a giant leap of faith that few have the courage—and family support—to take. In her sensitive short The Mess We’re In, emerging Vancouver writer/director JAMIE LAM draws upon personal experience growing up in the loving home—of a hoarder! While the film never sugar coats the stress this caused Jamie growing up, it’s a triumph of love over tidying up. It was a hit in this year’s Short Circuit Pacific Rim Film Festival and won...
S3E7 - In Conversation w/ Johnny Kirk
May 12, 2023 13:00 - 10 minutes - 6.91 MBIs it possible to use surreal, magical realist narrative methods to engage audiences in an experience best described as visually immersive, especially when the protagonists are young black men and the antagonists are police officers? JOHNNY KIRK is a graduate of California State University in LA and is the Creative Director and Founder of the digital film production company DARK BLU PRODUCTIONS. All three of the short films he’s previously written and directed have won awards and he’s been ...
S3E6 – Demystifying Film Insurance w/ Mike Groner
March 21, 2023 13:00 - 9 minutes - 6.84 MBWondering how much you should budget for insurance in your Telefilm Talent to Watch application, or what insurance you actually need for making a short film? This interview with Front Row Insurance Brokers VP Mike Groner covers everything you ever wanted to know about insurance but were afraid to ask! Pure information gold — and just in time to make that Telefilm deadline. Since starting his insurance career twenty years ago in LA, Mike has worked with Hollywood creators providing insuranc...
S3E6 - Demystifying Film Insurance w/ Mike Groner
March 21, 2023 13:00 - 9 minutes - 6.84 MBWondering how much you should budget for insurance in your Telefilm Talent to Watch application, or what insurance you actually need for making a short film? This interview with Front Row Insurance Brokers VP Mike Groner covers everything you ever wanted to know about insurance but were afraid to ask! Pure information gold — and just in time to make that Telefilm deadline. Since starting his insurance career twenty years ago in LA, Mike has worked with Hollywood creators providing insuranc...
S3E5 - When Fate Points You in a New Direction w/ Chris Vautour (pt. 2)
March 10, 2023 14:00 - 9 minutes - 6.88 MBA traumatic work injury would stop most of us, but that’s what it took to steer Chris Vautour from her beloved 25-year career as a location scout and manager towards her original goal of becoming a filmmaker. With refreshing candor, the self-proclaimed “gatherer of certificates” describes how she got her start in film, why the PA role is so important, her “Year of Trying Things,” and how she shifted creative focus to start afresh as a producer. Chris is a Directors’ Guild of Canada location...
S3E4 - Location, Location, Location w/ Chris Vautour
February 24, 2023 14:00 - 9 minutes - 6.87 MBIn today’s info-packed episode, Push In interviews veteran film industry location scout and manager Chris Vautour. With astounding clarity, Chris concisely sums up the most important things to know when location scouting. If you want tips on scoring that perfect location, this is an episode not to be missed! Listen up as Chris tells host Joyce Kline: · Who makes a good locations person? · What’s the most important thing to look for in a location? · When’s the ideal time...
S3E3 - Brave New Documentary w/ Morgan Rhys Tams (pt. 2)
February 09, 2023 14:00 - 9 minutes - 6.89 MBCurious about the brave new world of interactive documentaries? Experimental filmmaker Morgan Rhys Tams’ “elevated cinema” goes where few have gone before. From a community-based animation with 120 collaborators, to an animated site-specific installation of strategically placed QR codes on aluminum plates, Morgan’s oeuvre stretches the limits of what a documentary can be. Morgan has created everything from a music video-style rock & roll “western” opera to site specific and interactive...
S3E3 – Brave New Documentary w/ Morgan Rhys Tams (pt. 2)
February 09, 2023 14:00 - 9 minutes - 6.89 MBCurious about the brave new world of interactive documentaries? Experimental filmmaker Morgan Rhys Tams’ “elevated cinema” goes where few have gone before. From a community-based animation with 120 collaborators, to an animated site-specific installation of strategically placed QR codes on aluminum plates, Morgan’s oeuvre stretches the limits of what a documentary can be. Morgan has created everything from a music video-style rock & roll “western” opera to site specific and interactive...
S3E2 - Dear Mr. Dudley w/ Morgan Rhys Tams
February 02, 2023 14:00 - 10 minutes - 6.91 MBWhen BC documentary filmmaker Morgan Rhys Tams was 31 years old, he wrote a short letter to the absentee father he’d never known. This led to his decision to drive 5000 kilometers to the opposite coast of Canada so the two could meet for the first time. Dear Mr. Dudley: Morgan’s unconventional latest short film, chronicles this real-life road trip that crossed not only a continent and decades of lost time, but the distance between father and son. Morgan Rhys Tams has created everything fr...
S3E1 - Presenting Yourself w/ Michael “Oz” Osbourne
January 27, 2023 14:00 - 10 minutes - 6.91 MBYou’ve spent a ton of time perfecting your elevator pitch, but have you considered the importance of how your present yourself? If you want that extra leg up, you won’t want to miss this interview with filmmaker, musician, and personal, wardrobe and costume stylist Michael “Oz” Osbourne! Oz has composed, performed and produced music for 20 years and toured internationally with his wife, singer Skyla J. Their production company SJO PRODUCTIONS creates music and music videos, DJs, and organiz...
S2E18- Anecdote or story? w/ Claire Mulligan
December 20, 2022 15:00 - 10 minutes - 6.91 MB“You should make a movie about that!” Whether you’ve just regaled someone with a juicy anecdote, or they’ve buttonholed you at a party with one of theirs, if you’re a filmmaker you’ve, undoubtedly, heard this. Before you’re tempted to act on that impulse, you’d be well advised to listen to novelist and screenwriter Claire Mulligan explain the difference between a story and “something that just happens.” Claire ought to know—her novels have been nominated for the prestigious Giller Prize,...
S2E18 - Anecdote or story? w/ Claire Mulligan
December 20, 2022 15:00 - 10 minutes - 6.91 MB“You should make a movie about that!” Whether you’ve just regaled someone with a juicy anecdote, or they’ve buttonholed you at a party with one of theirs, if you’re a filmmaker you’ve undoubtedly heard this. Before you’re tempted to act on that impulse, you’d be well advised to listen to novelist and screenwriter Claire Mulligan explain the difference between a story and “something that just happens.” Claire ought to know—her novels have been nominated for the prestigious Giller Prize, C...
S2E17 - Holiday Movie Magic w/ Darlene Tait
December 14, 2022 15:00 - 10 minutes - 6.91 MB‘Tis the season for butter, sugar, sentiment and...Hallmark holiday movies! Host Joyce Kline asked award-winning actor, producer and casting director Darlene Tait to take us behind the scenes of Hallmark’s upcoming Five More Minutes: Moments Like These premiering in Canada, December 18th on the W Network. In this frank interview Darlene tells Joyce: · What it was like to step on set Day One in her first supporting acting role. · How snow-covered winter settings are created in ...
S2E16 - Electric Feel w/ Grady Lawlor
December 06, 2022 15:00 - 9 minutes - 6.84 MBOn today's episode, host Joyce Kline interviews filmmaker, podcast producer, animator and CineVic’s own Vice President, Grady Lawlor. We all know filmmaking can be a pricey hobby. So why pay to put together a production when you can get the cast to bring you onboard? Grady turned his love of filmmaking into a life of adventure and heart with wedding films. And if you watch closely enough, even a little bit of magic. Through Evergreen & Bound Films, Grady and his partner Breanna capture wh...
S2E15 - Halloween Episode: Making a Monster w/ Octavian Kaul
October 26, 2022 14:00 - 9 minutes - 6.9 MBWho better to interview for Halloween than multiple award-winning actor/writer/director Octavian Kaul? Victoria's wunderkind fright master talks nightmares and biggest fear with host Joyce Kline...and why he’s virtually possessed (apologies for the pun) by the horror genre. ·Joyce surprises Octavian with something she’s found online. ·Octavian breaks down when it's the sound and when it's the visuals that will scare the bejesus out of an audience. ·Octavian describes his ‘80s inspired cre...
S2E15 Halloween Episode: Making a Monster with Octavian Kaul
October 26, 2022 14:00 - 9 minutes - 6.9 MBWho better to interview for Halloween than multiple award-winning actor/writer/director Octavian Kaul? Victoria's wunderkind fright master talks nightmares and biggest fear with host Joyce Kline...and why he’s virtually possessed (apologies for the pun) by the horror genre. ·Joyce surprises Octavian with something she’s found online. ·Octavian breaks down when it's the sound and when it's the visuals that will scare the bejesus out of an audience. ·Octavian describes his ‘80s inspired cre...
S2E14 Re-Inventing Yourself as a Filmmaker w/Suzanne Moreau
October 11, 2022 14:00 - 10 minutes - 6.91 MBIf you think it’s too late to start a filmmaking career after you retire you need to think again! Listen in as up and coming filmmaker Suzanne Moreau details how she made the leap from civil servant to recognized writer/director. Suzanne tells host Joyce Kline how Cinevic Society of Independent Filmmakers gave her a start, what it’s like to move forward in a new direction “when you don’t even know if you can”, and why female puberty deserves more respect! For more featured in this episode:...
S2E14 - Re-Inventing Yourself as a Filmmaker w/Suzanne Moreau
October 11, 2022 14:00 - 10 minutes - 6.91 MBIf you think it’s too late to start a filmmaking career after you retire you need to think again! Listen in as up and coming filmmaker Suzanne Moreau details how she made the leap from civil servant to recognized writer/director. Suzanne tells host Joyce Kline how Cinevic Society of Independent Filmmakers gave her a start, what it’s like to move forward in a new direction “when you don’t even know if you can”, and why female puberty deserves more respect! For more featured in this episode:...
S2E13 - The Undertow Took Me w/ Krista Loughton
October 04, 2022 13:00 - 9 minutes - 6.87 MBHost Joyce Kline catches documentary filmmaker Krista Loughton in the midst of Krista’s campaign for city councillor in the upcoming Victoria BC municipal election. Krista describes a harrowing incident in Vancouver’s notorious Downtown East Side that inspired her 20 year career fighting homelessness and addiction through filmmaking. Krista is widely known for the empathic documentary Us and Them (co-created with collaborator Jennifer Abbott) which followed the lives of four chronically ho...
S2E13 The Undertow Took Me w/Krista Loughton
October 04, 2022 13:00 - 9 minutes - 6.87 MBHost Joyce Kline catches documentary filmmaker Krista Loughton in the midst of Krista’s campaign for city councillor in the upcoming Victoria BC municipal election. Krista describes a harrowing incident in Vancouver’s notorious Downtown East Side that inspired her 20 year career fighting homelessness and addiction through filmmaking. Krista is widely known for the empathic documentary Us and Them (co-created with collaborator Jennifer Abbott) which followed the lives of four chronically ho...
S2E12-Do Evil Men Really Rejoice? w/ Ye’ela Rosenfeld
May 31, 2022 14:00 - 9 minutes - 6.89 MBWere the perpetrators of Nazi death camps evil psychopaths, sadistic, radicalized extremists or just ordinary, everyday men? That’s the question Israeli writer/director Ye’ela Rosenfeld set out to investigate in her riveting short film Hedgehog, one of the most thought-provoking films in Short Circuit Pacific Rim Film Festival’s 2022 line up. Listen in as host Joyce Kline finds out why this question has haunted Ye’ela, what it’s like to work with Roman Polanski... and just what in the hec...
S2E12 - Do Evil Men Really Rejoice? w/ Ye’ela Rosenfeld
May 31, 2022 14:00 - 9 minutes - 6.89 MBWere the perpetrators of Nazi death camps evil psychopaths, sadistic, radicalized extremists or just ordinary, everyday men? That’s the question Israeli writer/director Ye’ela Rosenfeld set out to investigate in her riveting short film Hedgehog, one of the most thought-provoking films in Short Circuit Pacific Rim Film Festival’s 2022 line up. Listen in as host Joyce Kline finds out why this question has haunted Ye’ela, what it’s like to work with Roman Polanski... and just what in the hec...
S2E11-Creating from Your Own Experience w/Jay Kamal
May 30, 2022 14:00 - 9 minutes - 6.83 MBIn the wake of his father’s death, a young boy is forced to deal with, and ultimately respect, his mixed family’s Muslim and Christian mourning practices in Lebanese/Canadian filmmaker Jay Kamal’s touching short film Baba. Baba swept up three awards in CineVic’s 2022 Short Circuit Pacific Rim Film Festival, winning Outstanding Direction, Cinematography, and Performance awards — so, of course, podcast host Joyce Kline just had to find out more from Jay! Why did he feel he needed a cultura...
S2E11 - Creating From Your Own Experience w/ Jay Kamal
May 30, 2022 14:00 - 9 minutes - 6.83 MBIn the wake of his father’s death, a young boy is forced to deal with, and ultimately respect, his mixed family’s Muslim and Christian mourning practices in Lebanese/Canadian filmmaker Jay Kamal’s touching short film Baba. Baba swept up three awards in CineVic’s 2022 Short Circuit Pacific Rim Film Festival, winning Outstanding Direction, Cinematography, and Performance awards — so, of course, podcast host Joyce Kline just had to find out more from Jay! Why did he feel he needed a cultura...
S2E10 - The Spirit Inside w/ Stephanie Rossel
May 18, 2022 13:00 - 9 minutes - 6.84 MBOn today's episode, host Joyce Kline interviews Comox Valley’s Stephanie Rossel. Drawing from her 34 years of experience as script supervisor on top film and TV productions like Juno, Tully and When We Rise, Stephanie is at the helm of her latest short, Baby Steps. Lean on budget, equipment and doing “all of the production design, ADing, everything” with minimal crew, how did Stephanie pull off creating such an amazing film? Joyce also discovers just how Stephanie cast different ages of...
S2E9 - Creators of the World w/ Nicholas Riini
May 05, 2022 19:00 - 9 minutes - 6.87 MBWhat do Evil Dead, King Kong, Power of the Dog and the CineVic Short Circuit Pacific Rim Film Festival have in common? Allow us to introduce Maori filmmaker Nicholas Riini (Ngai Tuhoe) of Aotearoa (New Zealand). Connecting with the elemental world of his ancestors, Nicholas’ film A Morning With Aroha combines creativity and imagination for a show not to be missed. How did Nicholas put his 20+ years of experience in technical departments (gaffer/lighting/rigging) for top films to use? ...
S2E8 - Heart and Soul of a Story w/ Ann Marie Hak
May 03, 2022 13:00 - 9 minutes - 6.85 MBWhen Graham takes his new step-son Emil on a camping trip, he hopes they will finally bond through the traditions and lessons he learned from his own father. However, the scars of the recent death of Emil’s father hang heavy over the pair and Emil resists Graham’s attempts to get closer to him… Reads the logline of Ann Marie Hak’s 2020 CineSpark competition winning pitch for her script Wishing Fall. Drawing from her own childhood growing up in Northern British Columbia, host Joyce Kline un...
S2E7 - Love, Language and Soup w/Alayna Y
April 29, 2022 16:00 - 9 minutes - 6.9 MBA young woman falls in love with a waitress in a greasy-yet-nostalgic Hong Kong-style cafe, but a language gap divides the two - or is there something more? Animator and filmmaker Alayna Y goes back to her roots through food with the appetizing short animated film, Macaroni Soup. An artist specializing in making soup - she throws people, experiences, and inspirations into a simmering pot. Whether it’s well-received or not, she’ll always make the soup she wants. Join host Joyce Kline as sh...
S2E6 - Justifying Life w/ Trent Peek
April 26, 2022 13:00 - 9 minutes - 6.76 MBOn this episode, host Joyce Kline catches up with director, writer, actor, past CineVic president and overall man-about-set, Trent Peek. Trent recalls going from “not ready at all” to being chosen to direct Sarah Nicole Faucher’s CineSpark winning production, Going Home. This film tells the story of a young deaf woman trying to work in the film industry. Being not many of these things, Trent shares the reality of directing an independent short from a different perspective than his own. No...
S2E5 - Creating Your Self as an Artist w/ Lukas Hanulak
April 08, 2022 14:00 - 9 minutes - 6.9 MBWith more than a decade of experience working in the Eastern European film industry, we’re lucky to have director/producer/writer Lukas Hanulak now call Vancouver Island home. Enjoying festival success with his short film, The Father (2009), Lukas rose in the ranks to direct a dramatic TV series, for major broadcasters in Czech Republic and Slovakia. No stranger to documentary work as well, Lukas co-created the award-winning co-production documentary The Good Death – a story about volunta...
S2E4 - What... There's Been a Mudslide? w/ Arnold Lim
February 16, 2022 20:00 - 10 minutes - 6.91 MBAtmospheric rivers, mudslides, and washed-out roads frame the latest episode of Push In, The CineVic Podcast. Host Joyce Kline invites filmmaker and photography manager for the 2022 Beijing Olympics, Arnold Lim to share how he and his team made it through a shoot day against all odds. What do you do when your route to set just got washed away by a mudslide and your lead actors can’t make it to set? After shooting until the last beams of daylight, now it’s time to find the way back home. ...