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StorylinesBonus Episode: Documentary Dynamo Dawn PorterSeason 1, Bonus Episode 6Bonus Episode: Documentary Dynamo Dawn PorterIn 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 Apple TV multi-part documentary series with Oprah Winfrey and Pr...
2020-07-1304 min
StorylinesBonus Episode: Orange is the New Black's Alysia ReinerBonus Episode: Orange is the New Black’s Alysia ReinerIn 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.Links
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2020-07-0605 min
StorylinesBonus Episode: Riccie Johnson, A Make-up Artist by MistakeSeason 1, Bonus Episode 4Bonus Episode: Riccie Johnson, a Make-up Artist by MistakeIn 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 experience. Links...
2020-06-2905 min
StorylinesBonus Episode: Cross Border Collaboration with NYWIFTSeason 1, Bonus Episode 3Bonus Episode: Cross Border Collaboration with NYWIFTIn 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 pandemic, the ongoing shift to remote aud...
2020-06-2211 min
StorylinesBonnie Thompson: Prolific ProducerSeason 1, Episode 15Bonnie Thompson: Prolific ProducerBonnie 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 in Bonnie’s blood. Ev...
2020-06-1533 min
StorylinesRaevn Brasch: Master of All Things DesignSeason 1, Episode 14Raevn Brasch: Master of All Things DesignRaevn 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 the props...
2020-06-0830 min
StorylinesTasha Hubbard: Telling Indigenous StoriesSeason 1, Episode 13Tasha Hubbard: Telling Indigenous StoriesTasha 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 story of the Colton Boushie case. It’s been receiving positive reviews and was named th...
2020-06-0129 min
StorylinesMeghan Westelmajer: The Art of ProductionSeason 1, Episode 12Meghan 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...
2020-05-2524 min
StorylinesLisa Fryklund: Daring Director of PhotographySeason 1, Episode 10Lisa Fryklund: Daring Director of PhotographyLisa 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. Lisa now calls San Francisco home, where she works as a...
2020-05-1825 min
StorylinesEmily Renner Wallace: Fantastic First ADSeason 1, Episode 10Emily Renner Wallace: Fantastic First ADEmily 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 strides to dire...
2020-05-1125 min
StorylinesAlexandra Lazarowich: Documentary TrailblazerSeason 1, Episode 9Alexandra Lazarowich: Documentary TrailblazerAlexandra 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 disguise military intelligence for allied forces.Alexandra also directed the documentary short Fa...
2020-05-0432 min
StorylinesBonus episode: Coping with COVID & Tips for ActorsSeason 1, Bonus Episode 2 COVID-19: Impact on Actors with Angela PalmerAs 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. After taki...
2020-05-0105 min
StorylinesSusie Moloney: Literary Scream QueenSeason 1, Episode 8Susie Moloney: Literary Scream QueenSusie 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 behind the aw...
2020-04-2724 min
StorylinesNisreen Baker: Bridging the Cultural GapSeason 1, Episode 7Nisreen Baker: Bridging the Cultural GapOriginally 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 films later, she dove deeper into Arab culture in C...
2020-04-2023 min
StorylinesGeorgina Lightning: Advocate & Academy AlumniSeason 1, Episode 6Georgina Lightning: Advocate & Academy AlumniGeorgina 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 stars in the APTN series, Tribal.She’s a...
2020-04-1330 min
StorylinesJessica L’Heureux: Franco FilmmakingSeason 1, Episode 5Jessica L’Heureux: Franco FilmmakingJessica 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.Afterwards, she quickly jumped into scripted productions with Abigaëlle, a web...
2020-04-0621 min
StorylinesKaren Ryan: Acting AficionadoSeason 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 acting credits to her name...
2020-03-3022 min
StorylinesBonus Episode: The Future of Filmmaking with COVID-19Season 1, Bonus Episode 1 The Future of Filmmaking with COVID-19Our 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 to cancel the festival in June this year du...
2020-03-2707 min
StorylinesMichelle Wong: Production ProSeason 1, Episode 3Michelle Wong: Production ProMichelle’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 her business partner at the time helped to expand production servic...
2020-03-2322 min
StorylinesBrenda Terning: Editing PowerhouseSeason 1, Episode 2Brenda Terning: Editing PowerhouseBrenda 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 combing through 600 hours of footage to create the blue chipdocume...
2020-03-1625 min
StorylinesRosvita Dransfeld: The Master of Cinéma véritéSeason 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 Emmy Award for her work on Vital Bonds, a documentary which explores the world...
2020-03-0923 min
StorylinesComing soon: StorylinesDo 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. Subscribe and join us every week starting March 9...
2020-02-2402 min