Storylines
25 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago -'Storylines' is Women in Film and Television Alberta's inaugural podcast. Join your host, Sheena Rossiter, every week as we highlight some of the most successful women in film and television from in front of and behind the camera. Subscribe now to get all 15 weekly episodes wherever you get your podcasts. 'Storylines' will launch March 9, 2020 and runs until June 15, 2020.
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Bonus Episode: Documentary Dynamo Dawn Porter
July 13, 2020 10:00 - 4 minutes - 3.84 MBSeason 1, Bonus Episode 6 Bonus Episode: Documentary Dynamo Dawn Porter In this bonus episode of Storylines, we hear from award-winning documentary producer Dawn Porter, known for films like Spies of Mississippi and Gideon’s Army. One of Dawn’s most recent projects is the critically-acclaimed four-hour Netflix original series Bobby Kennedy for President, which was released in 2018 and premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. And Dawn is currently directing and executive producing an Ap...
Bonus Episode: Orange is the New Black's Alysia Reiner
July 06, 2020 10:00 - 5 minutes - 4.92 MBBonus Episode: Orange is the New Black’s Alysia Reiner In this bonus episode of Storylines, we hear from actor and producer Alysia Reiner, known for her role as warden Fig in Orange is the New Black. Alysia’s interview is part of the NYWIFT podcast Women Crush Wednesdays, hosted by Leah Curney and Janine McGoldrick. In this episode: We hear about what it’s like to transition from actor to producer, falling in love with the artistic potential of film, and telling women’s stories on screen....
Bonus Episode: Riccie Johnson, A Make-up Artist by Mistake
June 29, 2020 10:00 - 5 minutes - 4.94 MBSeason 1, Bonus Episode 4 Bonus Episode: Riccie Johnson, a Make-up Artist by Mistake In this bonus episode of Storylines, we take a look into the world of make-up artistry with industry veteran Riccie Johnson. Riccie’s interview is part of the NYWIFT podcast Women Crush Wednesdays, hosted by Leah Curney and Janine McGoldrick. In this episode: We hear about how Riccie got her surprising start in the industry, accepting new experiences, and what she’s learned from over 65 years of experi...
Bonus Episode: Cross Border Collaboration with NYWIFT
June 22, 2020 10:00 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBSeason 1, Bonus Episode 3 Bonus Episode: Cross Border Collaboration with NYWIFT In this special bonus episode of Storylines, we sit down with Leah Curney, co-host of Women Crush Wednesdays, a podcast by New York Women in Film and Television (NYWIFT), to talk about collaboration in a time of quarantine. And to announce how the Storylines and Women Crush Wednesdays podcasts will be working together. In this episode: We hear about what it’s like in New York City during the coronavirus pand...
Bonnie Thompson: Prolific Producer
June 15, 2020 10:00 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBSeason 1, Episode 15 Bonnie Thompson: Prolific Producer Bonnie Thompson has over 80 producer credits. She worked for more than three decades at the National Film Board of Canada out of the north west studio in Edmonton. And as a creative producer, she has been the third eye behind projects like the interactive documentary Bear 71. She was one of the producers on the feature documentary Angry Inuk, and she also was a producer on the Oscar-nominated animated short Wild Life. Producing is i...
Raevn Brasch: Master of All Things Design
June 08, 2020 10:00 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBSeason 1, Episode 14 Raevn Brasch: Master of All Things Design Raevn never imagined she’d work in the film industry when growing up on a farm in Australia. She moved to Canada for a road trip adventure over twenty years ago, and never left. It was connection and curiosity that led her onto film sets. More than two decades later, Raevn has worked in nearly every role in the art department on film and television sets. But production design is where her talent really shines. She’s created t...
Tasha Hubbard: Telling Indigenous Stories
June 01, 2020 10:00 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBSeason 1, Episode 13 Tasha Hubbard: Telling Indigenous Stories Tasha is an award-winning Cree filmmaker. Her documentaries primarily focus on social issues faced by Indigenous people in Canada. In 2004, her first solo project, the documentary Two Worlds Colliding, won a Gemini Award. It looked at starlight tours– a practice where Saskatoon police would abandon Indigenous men in freezing winter conditions. And Tasha’s most recent film, nîpawistamâsowin: We will Stand Up, tells the tragic s...
Meghan Westelmajer: The Art of Production
May 25, 2020 10:00 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MBSeason 1, Episode 12 Meghan Westelmajer: The Art of Production Meghan has always had a passion and love for film. But she got into the industry in a less traditional way– It was an online job ad as an executive assistant that got Meghan into the industry. A few years later, and after lots of hard work, she was well into television production in Canada. Now based out of Calgary, she’s used to spinning a lot of plates. She’s worked as a production coordinator on large projects like the FX ...
Lisa Fryklund: Daring Director of Photography
May 18, 2020 10:00 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBSeason 1, Episode 10 Lisa Fryklund: Daring Director of Photography Lisa has seen the world through the lens of a camera. She cut her teeth as a camera operator working in news at a small town TV station in Saskatchewan in the 1980s. After years of working in news and sports, she made the switch to documentary and lifestyle projects. She’s shot projects like the National Geographic program $100 Taxi Ride, the travel game show the Amazing Race Canada, Intervention, and Adoption Stories. Lis...
Emily Renner Wallace: Fantastic First AD
May 11, 2020 10:00 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBSeason 1, Episode 10 Emily Renner Wallace: Fantastic First AD Emily got started in the film industry right out of high school. At 18 years old, she began working at the Calgary International Film Festival. That opened up doors for her to then work on film sets, and Emily has worked her way up. She’s now an active First AD on sets in and around the Calgary area. Emily was the first AD on the hit series Wynonna Earp, she worked on the Disney Plus show Togo, and she’s also been making stride...
Alexandra Lazarowich: Documentary Trailblazer
May 04, 2020 10:00 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBSeason 1, Episode 9 Alexandra Lazarowich: Documentary Trailblazer Alexandra started her career as a child actor, but then made the switch to producing and directing documentary films when she discovered that the real change for what’s shown on the screen is made from behind the camera. Alexandra produced the documentary short Cree Code Talkers. It tells the story of the elite unit during the second World War that was tasked with developing a coded system using the Cree language to disguis...
Bonus episode: Coping with COVID & Tips for Actors
May 01, 2020 10:00 - 5 minutes - 5.19 MBSeason 1, Bonus Episode 2 COVID-19: Impact on Actors with Angela Palmer As we make our way through week 7 of the coronavirus quarantine here in Alberta, the way we live our lives has certainly changed. For actors like Angela Palmer, we wonder what life is like right now. Angela grew up always watching TV, but she never imagined that she would actually be on TV. But after being inspired by her mother, she immersed herself in the world of acting seven years ago and hasn’t looked back. Af...
Susie Moloney: Literary Scream Queen
April 27, 2020 10:00 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBSeason 1, Episode 8 Susie Moloney: Literary Scream Queen Susie has been a writer for decades. She’s penned books like A Dry Spell, The Dwelling, and The 13. Her work focuses on the supernatural, and she’s been dubbed as the Canadian Stephen King. And now, she takes her pen to the page to create screenplays. She wrote and co-produced the short film the Suburbanight, a film that shows what can happen to a nosey neighbour interrupts a single mom trying to feed her kid. She’s also t...
Susie Moloney: Literary Scream Queen
April 27, 2020 10:00 - 24 minutes - 22 MBSeason 1, Episode 8 Susie Moloney: Literary Scream Queen Susie has been a writer for decades. She’s penned books like A Dry Spell, The Dwelling, and The 13. Her work focuses on the supernatural, and she’s been dubbed as the Canadian Stephen King. And now, she takes her pen to the page to create screenplays. She wrote and co-produced the short film the Suburbanight, a film that shows what can happen to a nosey neighbour interrupts a single mom trying to feed her kid. She’s also the writer...
Nisreen Baker: Bridging the Cultural Gap
April 20, 2020 10:00 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MBSeason 1, Episode 7 Nisreen Baker: Bridging the Cultural Gap Originally from Egypt, she honed her craft in her native country where she got her start in the film and television industry. Nisreen moved to Canada in 2001 and her debut Canadian-produced film was A Day in my Shoes; a film that explores the lives of three Palestinian women living in Canada, and how they managed to raise Canadian children while still holding on to their culture and heritage. More than a decade and several film...
Georgina Lightning: Advocate & Academy Alumni
April 13, 2020 10:00 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBSeason 1, Episode 6 Georgina Lightning: Advocate & Academy Alumni Georgina Lightning has had a vast and long career. In 1990, with her three Children in tow, she packed up and moved to Los Angeles to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. And there her career then took off. She has played supporting roles in productions like Walker Texas Ranger, The West Wing, and Trickster. Georgina is known for her role in Blackstone playing the character of Tracy Bull. She most recently guest ...
Jessica L’Heureux: Franco Filmmaking
April 06, 2020 10:00 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBSeason 1, Episode 5 Jessica L’Heureux: Franco Filmmaking Jessica straddles the world between fact and fiction. She started her career 20 years ago as a broadcast journalist at Radio-Canada in Quebec. It was long-form current affairs broadcast journalism that taught her the love of storytelling. Five years ago she opened her own production company, Far West Productions in Edmonton, with two business partners. Far West started with a lifestyle show about food truck culture, Sel et Diesel. ...
Karen Ryan: Acting Aficionado
March 30, 2020 10:00 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MBSeason 1, Episode 4 Karen Ryan: Acting Aficionado Karen Ryan started her career as a Calgary-based actor later than most. But once she caught the acting bug, she realized being in front of the cameras in film and television productions is the right place for her. But it wasn’t always a smooth ride. She faced health problems that forced her to take two years off when her career was getting started. It’s been a slow build, but the hard work has paid off for Karen. She now has over...
Karen Ryan: Acting Aficionado
March 30, 2020 10:00 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MBSeason 1, Episode 4 Karen Ryan: Acting Aficionado Karen Ryan started her career as a Calgary-based actor later than most. But once she caught the acting bug, she realized being in front of the cameras in film and television productions is the right place for her. But it wasn’t always a smooth ride. She faced health problems that forced her to take two years off when her career was getting started. It’s been a slow build, but the hard work has paid off for Karen. She now has over 15 actin...
Bonus Episode: The Future of Filmmaking with COVID-19
March 27, 2020 10:00 - 7 minutes - 7.1 MBSeason 1, Bonus Episode 1 The Future of Filmmaking with COVID-19 Our world changed last week as the coronavirus spread globally. In the film and television industry, the pandemic brought productions to a screeching halt. The entertainment industry giant Netflix had to shut down its scripted productions. But Netflix has promised $100 million US in relief to help industry workers who are out of a job because of the virus. Locally, here in Alberta, the Banff World Media Festival decided t...
Michelle Wong: Production Pro
March 23, 2020 10:00 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBSeason 1, Episode 3 Michelle Wong: Production Pro Michelle’s career in film and television hasn’t been linear. She started out as a high school teacher but made the jump to film after going to a National Film Board meet up in Edmonton in the early ‘90s. This led her to make her first documentary, Return Home, in 1992. Michelle honed her skills through the learning-by-doing method. After joining a local production company, she made the jump to scripted production in the '90s when she and he...
Brenda Terning: Editing Powerhouse
March 16, 2020 10:00 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBSeason 1, Episode 2 Brenda Terning: Editing Powerhouse Brenda makes magic from the edit suite. She’s been a documentary film editor for over two decades, and her resume is stacked. She’s edited documentaries for CBC’s the Nature of Things for a decade, and is currently editing feature documentaries for the National Film Board of Canada. Her work includes The Tipping Point, a documentary that looks at the impacts of the tar sands in northern Alberta. In the past, she’s been tasked with comb...
Rosvita Dransfeld: The Master of Cinéma vérité
March 09, 2020 10:00 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MBSeason 1, Episode 1 Rosvita Dransfeld: The Master of Cinéma vérité A documentary director and producer, Rosvita’s body of work is extensive. She started as a broadcast journalist in her native Germany, and made the transition into documentary film after moving to Canada in 2000. Over the past two decades, she’s produced and directed more documentaries than she can count, all in her adopted home of Edmonton where she runs her company ID Productions. Rosvita was recently nominate...
Rosvita Dransfeld: The Master of Cinéma vérité
March 09, 2020 10:00 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MBSeason 1, Episode 1 Rosvita Dransfeld: The Master of Cinéma vérité A documentary director and producer, Rosvita’s body of work is extensive. She started as a broadcast journalist in her native Germany, and made the transition into documentary film after moving to Canada in 2000. Over the past two decades, she’s produced and directed more documentaries than she can count, all in her adopted home of Edmonton where she runs her company ID Productions. Rosvita was recently nominated for an ...
Coming soon: Storylines
February 24, 2020 19:00 - 2 minutes - 1.86 MBDo you have what it takes to make it in film and television? Or are you just a fan who likes getting the behind the scenes scoop on some of your favourite films and television shows? Either way, this podcast is for you. Storylines' host Sheena Rossiter has been speaking with some of the leading women in film and television with links to Alberta. They'll share their top tips for those who want to start out in the industry. And they tell the stories of how their best projects got made. Subscri...