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The YVR Screen Scene Podcast

Sabrina Furminger

Vancouver is one of the busiest film and television production centres on the planet. But who powers this thriving local industry? The YVR Screen Scene Podcast seeks to answer that question. Award-winning film and television journalist Sabrina Furminger conducts revealing interviews with the actors, filmmakers, and other talented artists who power the Vancouver film and television industry in this eye-opening twice-weekly podcast.

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Episode 222: Bill Newton

The YVR Screen Scene Podcast ·

2022/05/13

Bill Newton’s filmography is chock-full of voice performances that are exciting, adventurous, daring, and damn funny. Bill has voiced everyone’s favourite God of Mischief Loki in multiple marvel projects, including Lego Marvel Adventures and Marvel Battleworld: Treachery at Twilight. He was nominated for a 2021 UBCP/ACTRA Award for voicing the dude-bro ogre BrainFreeze in Monster Beach (a performance he based in part on Keanu Reeves). He’s turned in an array of witty, wacky, and wonderful

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Episode 221: William B. Davis

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2022/05/11

By the time William B. Davis debuted in the pilot episode of The X-Files as the Cigarette Smoking Man, he’d already built a storied career as a director, acting teacher, and actor on both sides of the Atlantic. William documented his journey to The X-Files in his 2013 book, Where There’s Smoke… Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man – a journey that began with CBC audio dramas when he was a child and continues to this day with roles on popular fare like Amazon Studio’s Upload and Mike Flanagan’s highly

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Episode 220: Doug and the Slugs and Me

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2022/05/06

What comes to your mind when you hear the words “Doug and the Slugs”? If you live in Canada and grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, you probably think of one of the hottest party bands of the era fronted by the unlikeliest of rockstars: the late, great Doug Bennett. And you probably smile, because songs like “Too Bad” and “Real Enough” and “Making It Work” and “Day By Day” and their accompanying music videos were fun, and because Slugmania was real.You can revisit the songs and the men who made them in

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Episode 219: Love in the Time of Fentanyl

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2022/05/05

It’s been six years since the British Columbia government declared the opioid overdose crisis a public health emergency. More than 9,400 British Columbians have died from overdoses since January 2016. 174 people were lost in the month of February 2022 alone. Colin Askey’s film Love In The Time Of Fentanyl goes beyond the cold statistics and to the heart of what’s at stake: human beings in our province, all of whom are worthy of love, care, and respect. Love In the Time of Fentanyl highlights the

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Episode 218: Shakil Jessa

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2022/04/29

Filmmaker Shakil Jessa is determined to make the kind of films he needed to see when he was a queer Muslim teenager. This determination is particularly evident in Imran and Alykhan, a short film about two boys who fall in love at a Muslim youth retreat but have to keep their relationship a secret from those around them; the film will premiere on May 7 at Crazy8s. Shakil recently wrapped his first development deal with WarnerMedia for a story about a queer Muslim teenager going to university for the

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Episode 217: Gabrielle Rose and Camille Sullivan

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2022/04/27

Veteran actresses Gabrielle Rose (The Sweet Hereafter) and Camille Sullivan (Intelligence) like each other very much, and like to work together too. So who better to talk about the joys and challenges of collaboration than these two queens of the Canadian drama scene? In the second episode of our #IndustryBFFs series, Gabrielle and Camille reflect on their friendship and talk camaraderie, chemistry, navigating toxic behaviour, and competition. Episode sponsor: Fish Flight Entertainment

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Episode 216: Why are some filmmakers calling for...

The YVR Screen Scene Podcast ·

2022/04/22

Knowledge Network is the public broadcaster in British Columbia. But what many in the public didn’t know until an equity audit laid it bare in February was that, in the past seven years, only1.7%of the $2 million granted by Knowledge Network to filmmakers went to filmmakers of colour, and0%went to Indigenous majority-owned companies. To put it in perspective, 1.7% of $2 million is only $34,000. Thus, a group of diverse independent filmmakers and BC residents recently launched a petition calling for

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Episode 215: Kathleen Robertson

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2022/04/20

Kathleen Robertson visits the YVR Screen Scene Podcast to talk about her years acting on Maniac Mansion and Beverly Hills 90210 and her current gig showrunning Roku’s hit series Swimming With Sharks. The last – a dark thriller – is a reimagining of the 1994 film of the same title, about a Hollywood assistant who turns the tables on an abusive boss. But this time, the Hollywood assistant and the abusive boss are women: played by Kiernan Shipka and Diane Kruger respectively. Donald Sutherland, Thomas

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Episode 214: ‘Peacemaker’ choreographer Charissa Barton

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2022/03/25

Charissa Barton is responsible for choreographing one of the most universally beloved opening credits sequences of all time: that of Peacemaker on HBO Max. Newsweek described it as “[probably] the most memorable opening credits sequence of any superhero show in recent years.” The Hollywood Reporter went even further, calling it “one of the greatest opening credits in TV history.” In the sequence, characters like Peacemaker (John Cena), Vigilante (Freddie Stroma), Harcourt (Jennifer Holland), and

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Episode 213: Why comedian Ryan Beil set out to make...

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2022/03/18

Let’s Make A Sci-Fi is audacious. The new CBC podcast follows three Vancouver comedians – Ryan Beil, Maddy Kelly and Mark Chavez – as they set out to write a successful, non-comedy sci-fipilot with help from scientific experts and Hollywood screenwriting pros, including actor Rainn Wilson, astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson, District 9 filmmaker Neill Blomkamp, showrunners Jem Garrard and Simon Barry, and Catherine Winder, CEO of Wind Sun Sky. Over the course of eight episodes, the comedians

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Episode 212: Lea Salonga

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2022/03/11

Lea Salonga is the beloved singer and performer who won a Tony Award for originating the role of Kim in Miss Saigon, and who built a global fanbase for her work as the singing voices for Jasmine in Aladdin and as Mulan in Mulan and Mulan 2 – work for which the Walt Disney Company bestowed upon her the title of Disney Legend. She was the first Asian woman to play Eponine in the musicalLes Misérableson Broadway and returned to the beloved show as Fantine in the 2006 revival.She has performed on the

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Episode 211: Agam Darshi Talks ‘Donkeyhead’

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2022/03/08

Agam Darshi returns to the YVR Screen Scene Podcast to talk about Donkeyhead, the feature film that she stars in, wrote, and directed. Agam plays Mona, a failed writer who carves out a life of isolation while caring for her ailing Sikh father. When Mona’s father has a debilitating stroke, her three successful siblings – played by Stephen Lobo, Sandy Sidhu, and Huse Madhavji – show up on her doorstep determined to take control of the situation. What ensues is heartbreaking, hilarious at times,

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YVR Screen Scene For Ukraine

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2022/03/07

YVR Screen Scene presents an evening of film, music, and food in support of humanitarian efforts in Ukraine on March 30 at VIFF Centre

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Episode 210: Natasha Burnett

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2022/03/04

Natasha Burnett plays Minnie Canfield, matriarch of the Canfield family, on Hallmark Channel’s When Calls The Heart. The Canfields joined the wildly popular family drama for its eighth season; over the course of 12 episodes, Minnie was revealed to be loving, fiercely protective, and level-headed – and fans, known far beyond their fandom as the Hearties, embraced Minnie and all of the Canfields, who also happened to be the first Black family to be featured on the long-running show.So that’s Minnie

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Episode 209: Dan Payne

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2022/02/23

Dan Payne is a versatile actor. From John Dover on The Good Witch to Traeger in Mech X-4, from Beast in Disney’s wildly popular Descendants films to a high-powered real estate mogul in the first episode of Family Law, Dan’s handles comedy, action, genre fare, children’s entertainment, and drama with apparent equal ease. And he’s got five Leo Awards nominations – and two wins, one for Aliens Stole My Body and the other for Aliens Ate My Homework – to show for it. Dan makes it look easy, but it’s not

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Episode 208: Keegan Connor Tracy Returns!

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2022/02/15

When actress-director Keegan Connor Tracy (The Magicians, Once Upon A Time) turned 50 years old in December, she vowed to take this milestone year to really sit in what it means to grow older: especially as a woman, and especially in the film and television industry. Keegan recently popped by the YVR Screen Scene studio to drink birthday champagne and join Sabrina for a fun and freewheeling conversation about the war on aging, what she learned when she let her hair turn silver, “Instagram face,” and

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Episode 207: Katie Boland

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2022/02/11

We’re All In This Together is a feature film about three sisters who struggle to find a way to work together when their mother’s long tenuous mental health takes her over a waterfall in a barrel. The sisters are each plagued by their own demons – their own insecurities, addictions, traumas, mental health woes, and issues with each other – but it’s only when they learn to speak directly to each other, see the hurt in each other, acknowledge the pain that their mother’s mental illness has had on them

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Episode 206: Dennis Heaton and Rachel Langer

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2022/02/09

In the first of our series of episodes featuring #IndustryBFFs, screenwriters Dennis Heaton (The Order; The Imperfects) and Rachel Langer (Transplant) join Sabrina Rani Furminger for a rousing and insightful conversation about craft, community, collaboration, breaking into the industry, showrunning, bean bag chairs, and what really goes on in television writers’ rooms. Episode sponsor: Fish Flight Entertainment

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Episode 205: Kazumi Evans

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2022/02/02

Kazumi Evans has worked steadily as a voice actress since she entered the industry at the age of nineteen. Her many credits include Monster Beach, Polly Pocket, The Hollow, The Dragon Prince, multiple Barbie movies, and Rogue and Boomer in Wolverine vs. Sabretooth. She voiced multiple characters on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic – and provided Rarity’s singing voice – and she voiced the dastardly Adagio Dazzle in the wildly popular My Little Pony : Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks. Kazumi is

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Episode 204: Bob Frazer

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2022/01/28

Actor Bob Frazer’s filmography is packed with ne’er-do-wells, evil puppet masters, and smarmy bastards. Bob was Roger Hayden, also known as the Psycho Pirate, in Supergirl and Arrow – a supervillain who could control the emotions of everyone around him. He was the Sourcerer, a criminal mastermind hacker, in the thoroughly entertaining (albeit divisive) ReBoot: The Guardian Code. He was a slimy luxury car dealer lording over a hapless dad portrayed by Eric McCormack in Drinkwater, the indie hit that

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