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Face2Face with David Peck

Face2Face is hosted by change maker David Peck and is rooted in casual conversation and intelligent inspiration. David interviews film makers, actors, writers and artists of various kinds and he does it in a fun, thoughtful and entertaining way. Check out this weekly podcast where David honors and celebrates people who believe in the power of little things, the splash and ripple effect and who are rolling up their sleeves to make the world a better place. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for

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Episode 484 - Peter Albrechtsen - The Cave

Face2Face with David Peck ·

2020/01/19

Peter Albrechtsen and Face2Face host David Peck talk about Feras Fayyad's new film The Cave, sonic landscapes, fragility and fear, Syrian women in leadership, strength, resilience and sound as a storyteller.TrailerFor more info about the film head here.Synopsis:Oscar nominee Feras Fayyad (Last Men in Aleppo) delivers an unflinching story of the Syrian war with his powerful new documentary,The Cave. For besieged civilians, hope and safety lie underground inside the subterranean hospital known as the

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Episode 483 - Heather Young - Murmur

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2020/01/15

Heather Young and Face2Face host David Peck talk about her new film Murmur, loneliness, solitude and quiet desperation, relationships and our desire for love, inclusion and connection with others.TrailerSynopsis:Murmurfollows Donna, a sixty-something year-old who is scheduled to perform community service in an animal rescue shelter following a DUI charge. Over time Donna begins to relate to the abandoned animals that surround her and she forms a particular bond with a senior dog that she brings

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Episode 482 - Dekel Berenson - Anna

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2020/01/07

Dekel Berenson and Face2Face host David Peck talk about his beautiful new short film Anna, hard work and luck, politics and activism, child labour, allegory and truth and why movies should never just be entertaining.TrailerSynopsis:Anna, a middle-aged single mother, lives in a small industrial town in war-torn Eastern Ukraine. She works in a meat processing plant, lives in a rundown apartment and dreams for a better life for herself and her 16-year-old daughter.Desperate for a change, she is lured

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43:19

Episode 481 - Sophie Deraspe - Antigone

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2020/01/02

Sophie Deraspe and Face2Face host David Peck talk about her new film Antigone, Greek tragedies, empathy, dignity, resistance and trusting and following your heartTrailerSynopsis:Antigone is a moving, compassionate and beautiful story and it won the best film at TIFF 2019. Gripping, powerful, and of-the-moment,Antigoneloosely adapts Sophocles' Greek tragedy and situates it in contemporary Montreal. The latest from critically acclaimed Québécois writer-director Sophie Deraspe (The Wolves,The Amina

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Episode 480 - Karl Markovics & Nobadi

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2019/12/30

Karl Markovics and Face2Face host David Peck talk about his new film Nobadi, national socialism, guilt, fear and shame, fairytales for grown ups, Ulysses and why freedom scares us. TrailerSynopsis:Heinrich Senft, a 93 year old, cranky pensioner, lives on a small allotment in Vienna. His dog died during the night and he wants to dig a hole behind his cabin to bury him. But failing to dig it himself he begrudgingly hires a young man from Afghanistan, Adib. While the two struggle to trust each other,

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Episode 479 - François Girard - The Song of Names

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2019/12/24

François Girard and Face2Face host David Peck talk about his new film The Song of Names, history, remembrance, choices, mystery and discovery, film as music, the paradox of technology and musical, archeological digs. TrailerSynopsis:Martin Simmonds (Tim Roth) has been haunted throughout his life by the mysterious disappearance of his “brother” and extraordinary best friend, a Polish Jewish virtuoso violinist, Dovidl Rapaport, who vanished shortly before the 1951 London debut concert that would have

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21:31

Yaron Zilberman, Yehuda Nahari Halevi and Incitement

Face2Face with David Peck ·

2019/12/19

Yaron Zilberman, Yehuda Nahari Halevi and Face2Face host David Peck talk about their new film Incitement, the complicated history of the Middle East, justice, peace and racism, inclusion, war and the real cost of radicalization.TrailerSynopsis:“This rigorous psychological thriller by American-Israeli director Yaron Zilberman (A Late Quartet) depicts the lead-up to the 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin through the worldview of his assassin, Yigal Amir.In 1995, Yitzhak Rabin,

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38:16

Episode 477 - Robert Fisk and Yung Chang

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2019/12/12

Robert Fisk and Yung Chang and Face2Face host David Peck talk about their new film This Is Not A Movie, fake news and journalism, our addiction to social media, complicity, a “dead language”, and something called, “apparent clarity.”TrailerSynopsis:For more than 40 years, journalist Robert Fisk has reported on some of the most violent and divisive conflicts in the world: Northern Ireland, the Balkans, and Syria. Yong Chang’s This Is Not a Movie captures Fisk in action—feet on the ground, notebook in

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Episode 476 - Klaudia Reynicke & Barbara Giordano

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2019/12/10

Klaudia Reynicke Barbara Giordano and Face2Face host David Peck talk about their new film Love Me Tender, anti-superheroes, mental health issues, agoraphobia, connecting with others and the sometime difficult journeys we all seem to take. TrailerSynopsis:The daily life of a 32-year-old woman suffering from agoraphobia, SECONDA, suddenly changes when her mother dies and her father abandons her. Alone and unable to leave her home, she clings to the phone messages of a snarling bailiff who one day

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25:15

Episode 475 August Diehl & Valerie Pachner, A Hidden...

Face2Face with David Peck ·

2019/12/06

August Diehl and Valerie Pachner and Face2Face host David Peck talk about Terence Malik’s new film A Hidden Life, true love, pacifism and evil, truth and justice, taking an ethical stance and standing up to power. TrailerSynopsis:“..for thegrowing goodof the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”George EliotA Hidden Life is based

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Episode 474 - Mahnaz Mohammadi, Farzad Pak on Son-Mother

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2019/12/03

Mahnaz Mohammadi, Farzad Pak and Face2Face host David Peck talk about their new film Son/Mother, activism, family, choices and women’s rights, tradition, values and storytelling, patriarchy, empathy and how things do change bit by bit, over time.TrailerSynopsis:Leila is a single working mom of two. The factory she works at faces a crisis and jobs are at stake. Kazem, the factory bus driver, proposes marriage to Leila, but she hesitates to accept his conditions. Kazem has a daughter the same age as

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Episode 473 - Crazy World & Wakaliwood

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2019/11/28

IGG Nabwana, VJ Emmie and Alan Ssali Hofmanistalk about their new film Crazy World, African storytelling, action films, traditions and taking chances and the super success of the Ugandan Wakaliwood.TrailerSynopsis:In the latest from Uganda’s gonzo action auteur IGG Nabwana, a gang of child-snatching mobsters make a fatal mistake when they kidnap the Waka Stars, a team of pint-sized kung-fu masters who soon turn their cunning wits and deadly skills upon their captors.For the past decade, IGG Nabwana

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32:37

Episode 472 - Fisher Stevens and Malcolm Venville -...

Face2Face with David Peck ·

2019/11/22

Fisher Stevens and Malcolm Venville and Face2Face host David Peck talk about their new film And We Go Green, the environment, Climate Change, eco-capitalists, Electric Cars, Formula E and social innovation.TrailerSynopsis:Formula E, the groundbreaking electric car racing series, has grown from upstart championship to the world's fastest growing sport in 4 short years. Through its pulsating and unpredictable racing spectacle featuring the most skillful drivers and most advanced car manufacturers,

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Episode 471 Jan Komasa and Corpus Christi

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2019/11/18

Jan Komasa and Face2Face host David Peck talk about his brilliant, engaging, thoughtful new film Corpus Christi, redemption and the power of communities to reconcile and restore, the Polish Bible Belt, shame, guilt and forgiveness and the ability to healing through our relationships with others.Trailer“Komasa directs with an impressive rigor that fits the subject matter, and the incorporation of subtle ecclesiastical embellishments in the score adds to the imposing solemnity. The smoldering center

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46:58

Episode 470 Steve Gamester & Rebecca Snow - Cheating...

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2019/11/13

Rebecca Snow and Steve Gamester and Face2Face host David Peck talk about their new film Cheating Hitler: Surviving The Holocaust, survivors guilt, meaningful history and the power of memory, pivotal moments in personal stories and why we never should forget.TrailerYou can watch the film here.Synopsis:Rose, Maxwell and Helen were 10, 9 and 7 years old when the Second World War began. Robbed of their childhood, they were old before they were young.They endured the terror of forced labour, killing

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47:42

Episode 469 - John Walker and Aaron James - Assholes:...

Face2Face with David Peck ·

2019/11/06

John Walker and Aaron James and Face2Face host David Peck talk about their new film Assholes: A Theory, the public good, economics and indifference, activism and authoritarianism, capitalism and greed, public spaces and shared prosperity. TrailerYou Can Buy the Book here.Synopsis:Ever get the feeling that assholes are taking over the world?Bad behaviour is as old as human history, something we all encounter at some point—whether on the playground, in the workplace or in public life. But the

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31:30

Coky Giedroyc - How To Build A Girl

Face2Face with David Peck ·

2019/11/04

Coky Giedroyc and Face2Face host David Peck talk about her new film How To Build a Girl, friendship, loyalty and family, discovery and how life unfolds in front of us in a real, messy and wonderful way and the uncertain personal journeys we all seem to take. Synopsis:Johanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein) is a sixteen-year-old, extrovert from the outskirts of Wolverhampton with raging hormones and gigantic dreams. Even though she loves her big, boisterous, dysfunctional family, Johanna knows with

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42:37

Episode 467 - Shawney Cohen on Rat Park

Face2Face with David Peck ·

2019/10/31

Shawney Cohen and Face2Face host David Peck talk about his new Rat Park, addiction, mental health, context and environment, boredom and drug decriminalization and rats that meditate. TrailerWatch on CRAVE TV and for more info on the film head here. Synopsis:The secret to solving the world’s drug crisis lies in a forgotten psychology experiment involving rats and heroin. Thirty years later, RAT PARK shows how the experiment’s radical findings are more relevant than ever. Following three stories

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Episode 466 - Garin Hovannisian & Serj Tankian

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2019/10/24

Garin Hovannisian, Serj Tankian and Face2Face host David Peck talk about their new film I Am Not Alone, politics and protest, Armenia and the Velvet Revolution, citizen protests, activism, advocacy pessimism and hope. TrailerSynopsis:On Easter 2018, a man put on a backpack and went live on Facebook to announce that he was beginning a walk across Armenia. His mission: to inspire a velvet revolution — and topple the corrupt regime that enjoys absolute power in his post-soviet nation. With total access

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39:50

Lisa Fiorilli on Passion, People, Statistics, and Art

Face2Face with David Peck ·

2019/10/20

Lisa Fiorilli and Face2Face host David Peck talk about working in the cultural sector, diversity and inclusion, passion and people, statistics, and the perception and definition of art.Making It Work:WorkInCulture is a non-profit arts service organization that supports the people who work in the cultural sector in Ontario through life-long career development and entrepreneurial and business skills training. Specifically, WIC is recognized for its Job Board and for connecting employers to artists,

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