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 Canadian media? Who’s working to introduce proactive initiatives? What are some of the success stories so far? In the first episode, we speak to three Canadians tackling the issue of gender and race parity in their own distinct ways. We begin our conversation with Cameron Bailey (TIFF’s Artistic Director) and his view on what kinds of Canadian films could help shift the fiction film landscape. Rina Fraticelli (Executive Director of Women in View) talks to us about the launch of her organization’s new diversity toolkit called “Media Plus” and Rad Simonpillai (Film Critic for Now Magazine) speaks candidly about being a writer and ally with an ongoing interest in gender parity.