Film 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 whose films have screened in 40 festivals nationally and internationally, whose music videos have been fea ..read more

Unless 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 hook and donor perks, and how he built a social media fan base that helped him raise over $102,000. Denv ..read more

“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, Canadian Author’s Award and Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, her first short screenplay The Still Life of ..read more

On 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 what a day feels like. Representing this in an honest, compelling and thoughtful way. On the show we ..read more

Who 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 creature short Wormies and (shades of Dr. Frankenstein!) what it was like to create an animatronic monster t ..read more

If 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: Trailer for Blood Buddies: https://watch.eventive.org/lafemme/play/632e1ab00d5d5d0053762a52 Suzanne’s S ..read more

Host 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 homeless Victoria residents over an entire decade. The film premiered on CHEK TV and has been shown more tha ..read more

Were 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 heck is the Israeli army’s “film squad”? For more featured in this episode: Watch Hedgehog online Ma ..read more

In 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 cultural consultant?  How does Canadian multiculturalism stack up against Lebanon’s centuries old trad ..read more

On 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 the same character as the lead actors in the film – no easy task for any sized production! Set throug ..read more