It only seems appropriate to close our third season with one of our all-time favourite guests, the talented filmmaker Jasmin Mozaffari. Her recent film Firecrackers generated at lot of buzz at TIFF this past year, where it screened to sold-out audiences. Firecrackers tells the story of redhead Lou and her best friend Chantal as they try to make their dreams of escaping their small Ontario town a reality. Since premiering at TIFF, the film has screened at festivals worldwide and won Best Film...

Last time anyone did the stats in Canada, only about 17% of scripted television shows were directed by women. What does it take for a woman to break into the lucrative and exciting world of TV directing? From making indie short films to directing episodes of Murdoch Myteries, Sherren Lee has done it successfully. In this episode, we talk to Sherren and Rina Fratecelli, director of Women in View, about the transition to TV and WIV’s initiative 2XMore, a program that aims to double the number...

We’re back for a third season! If you’ve been listening to us, you’ve heard us discuss all kinds of issues: the lack of women in the director’s chair, the white saviour complex in film, #OscarsSoWhite and telling indigenous stories from non-indigenous perspectives. This season we want to turn the boat around. We’re focusing on solutions to the glaring gender and race parity issues in Canadian film and TV. We’re asking how can we address some of these serious representation problems in...

We wrap up our season two focus on Indigenous female filmmakers with Michelle Latimer. An actor turned filmmaker, Michelle broke onto the scene as a writer/producer for the award-winning documentary "Jackpot." Since then, she has directed several films including the short animation "Choke," the dramatic short "Cockroach" and the feature documentary "Alias." Most recently, Michelle was the showrunner on the critically-acclaimed Viceland series "Rise," which follows indigenous movements of...

In the second episode of our spotlight on Indigenous female filmmakers, we discuss the work of renown Canadian auteur, Alanis Obomsawin. At 85 years of age, Alanis has made 49 films with the National Film Board of Canada, including her most recent documentary "We Can’t Make the Same Mistake Twice." We had the honour to sit down and chat with Alanis about her filmmaking process, her longstanding relationship with the NFB, and her unrelenting efforts to document the fight for Indigenous rights...

This episode, we kick off our season with Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, director of the critically acclaimed documentary, Angry Inuk. A controversial piece about the rights of Inuit seal hunters in Canada’s North, Angry Inuk premiered at Hot Docs last year and subsequently won the festival's Audience Choice Award. In this episode, we chat candidly with Alethea about the making of her first feature film and the courage it took to tackle a subject matter that many industry professionals cautioned...