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Push In - The CineVic PodcastS4E12 Do What Nobody Else Can Do – w/ Leslie BlandWhat does it take to produce three feature documentaries, a feature comedy, and have two more in the works? Producer Leslie Bland shares the “special sauce” that’s made his production companies Orca Cove Media and Less Bland Productions so successful. There’s plenty to learn as he tells host Joyce Kline why filmmaking pulled him away from a successful career in live professional theatre, how he made cross-cultural connections through his collaboration with Cowichan filmmaker Harold Joe, and how, in a competitive world, sticking with original IP can lead to success.LESLIE BLAND’s film and T...2024-09-2610 min
Push In - The CineVic PodcastS4E11 What We Do For You – w/ Film Commissioner Kathleen GilbertKATHLEEN GILBERT, long-time CineVic supporter and head of Vancouver Island South Film & Media Commission shares what the Film Commission actually does, how it's financed, what it can offer indie filmmakers, and how we can support their work to expand local film production. Learn what she considers the biggest accomplishment—and biggest disappointment—of her tenure as Commissioner. Kathleen Gilbert took on the job of Film Commissioner in 2010 after a lengthy career as a location manager for film and TV. Under her dedicated leadership, by 2022 alone, the Capitol Regional District’s burgeoning film industry had grow...2024-09-1210 min
Push In - The CineVic PodcastS4E10 - Victoria's Film History w/ Kathleen GilbertDid you know Victoria had one of the first film studios in Canada and the province’s first film commission? Here's your chance to learn the fascinating history of filmmaking in southern Vancouver Island from someone who knows the film scene inside and out - outgoing Head of the Vancouver Island South Film & Media Commission, Kathleen Gilbert.Kathleen took on the job of Commissioner in 2010 after a lengthy career as a location manager for film and TV. Under her dedicated leadership by 2022 alone, the Capitol Regional District’s film industry had grown from contributing $6 million to $60 million a ye...2024-07-1210 min
Push In - The CineVic PodcastS4E9 - Afrofuturism & Underwater Worlds w/ Kemi CraigWho else but innovative City of Victoria Artist-In-Residence Kemi Craig would find links between Afrofuturism, west African free divers’ traditional spiritual practice of Orisha, and the spirits of captives drowned in the west African slave trade? In work encompassing immersive, multi-sensory, site-specific installations and performances, this innovative dancer, filmmaker, multi-media creator and performance artist creates analog and digital work deeply rooted in themes of anti-oppression and social justice. Since getting her start in film at Cinevic Society of Independent Filmmakers, Kemi has participated in artist’s residency programs with CineVic, the Banff Centre for Arts and Cr...2024-06-2710 min
Push In - The CineVic PodcastS4E8 - Being Artist in Residence w/ Kemi CraigFrom how to apply for the position, to how much you’ll get paid, Victoria’s 2022-24 Artist-in-Residence Kemi Craig shares everything you ever wanted to know about her job but were afraid to ask!Kemi is a dancer, filmmaker, multi-media creator and performance artist whose work encompasses immersive, multi-sensory, site-specific installations and performances that encourage audience and community engagement. After getting her start in film at Cinevic Society of Independent Filmmakers, she's participated in artist’s residency programs with CineVic, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and Dance Victoria. Most recently she was...2024-06-0410 min
Push In - The CineVic PodcastS4E7 - Why Producing Isn’t Fun w/ Ana de Lara (pt. 3)You may say you’ll never do it but, if you’re an indie filmmaker, chances are at some point you’re probably going to wind up producing your own work. In this fun and frank episode, actor, writer, director, and producer Ana de Lara really tells it like it is: Why ultra low budget films are so tough to produce, how she ended up producing in the first place, and why producing isn’t fun! An accomplished actor, Ana also shares what it’s like to be flown to Prague for a Cascade commercial, and being cast as everything...2024-05-3010 min
Push In - The CineVic PodcastS4E6 - Tender Masculinity - w/ Andrés Felipe Ángel With all the talk about toxic masculinity, it’s a real treat to watch a film that explores traditionally held “masculine” qualities like aggression, competitiveness — even homophobia — while also acknowledging masculinity’s potential for tenderness, nurturance, and protectiveness. Working with amateur actors from the Bogotá barrio, filmmaker Andrés Felipe Ángel manages to pull that off and more in his sensitive autobiographical coming of age film Rage. It’s a real treat to hear Andrés share how he developed the film from a single visual image, why he’s a self-styled “cultural manager,” trends in Columbian filmmaking, being in consideration for the...2024-05-0110 min
Push In - The CineVic PodcastS4E5 - Creating Caring Sets w/ Ana de Lara (pt. 2)When 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. Ana de Lara has 17 awards and 5 nominations for her award...2024-04-2210 min
Push In - The CineVic PodcastS4E4 - Making Anything Funny w/ Ana de LaraIs 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 funny.” Ana has 17 awards and 5 nominations for her award-winning short films and featur...2024-03-2810 min
Push In - The CineVic PodcastS4E3 - Mind Control & Synchronicity w/ Emanuel FoucaultThe 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 at Montreal’s notorious Allen Memorial Institute.· Adapting history for a short film.· Finding amazing actors. · Crowd-funding three times more money than he asked for.· His p...2024-03-1510 min
Push In - The CineVic PodcastS4E2 - What Really Worked w/ Connor GastonIf 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 Le...2024-02-2710 min