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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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01:10:16

Episode 203: Jewel Staite

The YVR Screen Scene Podcast ·

2022/01/25

Jewel Staite is the actress behind a veritable parade of dynamic characters, including the volatile and feisty Abigail on Family Law, the kind-hearted mechanic Kaylee on Firefly and Serenity, the brilliant and insecure Dr. Jennifer Keller on Stargate Atlantis, and a pair of sadistic magical twins on The Order. She’s also an entrepreneur, a mother, a wife, a friend, a fan favourite, and really funny. Her Twitter followers know that she doesn’t suffer trolls: she’ll call out the insanity of the

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00:44:00

Episode 202: Comedy in the age of COVID with David...

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2022/01/21

Comedians David Milchard and Ken Lawson – AKA the duo behind David and Ken: Comedy with Music! – talk about comedy in the age of COVID, how comedy has changed, how audiences have changed, and what we lose when we don’t let loose with laughter. Episode sponsor: Fish Flight Entertainment

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00:57:46

Episode 201: Rachel Nichols

The YVR Screen Scene Podcast ·

2022/01/18

Rachel Nichols’ career story is packed with memorable characters from all manner of genre entertainment. She was Kiera Cameron, the ass-kicking cop from the future, on Continuum, one of the only locally shot sci-fi series to actually set their story in Vancouver. She was Alexa, the waitress who enjoys a birthday threesome with Samantha and Richard in an iconic episode of Sex and the City. She was possibly the worst babysitter ever seen on screen in The Amityville Horror, a role for which she was

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01:20:48

Episode 200: Chelah Horsdal Returns

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2021/12/06

Chelah Horsdal has been busy since her first appearance on the YVR Screen Scene Podcast some 193 episodes ago. That episode dropped shortly after she’d wrapped up her critically acclaimed role as Helen Smith on Amazon Prime’s The Man in the High Castle. Since then, she’s been seen in Ash, the astonishing second feature from acclaimed filmmaker Andrew Huculiak, as a woman who learns that her husband has been accused of unspeakable crimes while a massive forest fire threatens her community – and in

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00:31:38

Episode 199: Trevor Mack

The YVR Screen Scene Podcast ·

2021/12/02

There’s been a lot of buzz about Portraits From A Fire, and it’s all well deserved. The feature film – which won filmmaker Trevor Mack the award for Best BC Emerging Filmmaker at the 2021 Vancouver International Film Festival – is a gutting, poignant, and funny masterwork, and it is finally available for all to see on VOD.Portraits from a Fire centres on Tyler (William Lulua), a 16-year-old member of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation who has the dreams of any kid with a camera: a career launch at the

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00:39:20

Episode 198: Roslyn Muir on how to write a TV movie

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2021/11/29

If there’s one thing we know how to do in Vancouver, it’s make TV movies. Whether we’re talking festive rom-coms, thrillers, or pulled-from-the-headlines dramas, Vancouver’s film and television industry makes dozens of these films each year for companies like Hallmark, Lifetime, and Netflix. This holiday seasons, tens of millions of viewers all over the world will carve out time in their hectic lives for these TV movies. Maybe you’re one of them. Maybe you’ve watched so many of these TV movies that

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00:33:00

Episode 197: Meet the cast of Lifetime’s first...

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2021/11/17

This is the first time the YVR Screen Scene Podcast has dedicated an entire episode to a Christmas movie. But this isn’t your typical Christmas movie. This is a Christmas movie about an Indian-American family, and it stars a bevy of beloved South Asian Canadian stars, wearing Christmas sweaters and decking the halls like many South Asians do IRL all over the world. Baking Spirits Bright airs November 21 on Lifetime. It’s about a character named Mira Varma who (according to Lifetime) “takes pride in

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00:58:38

Episode 196: Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe

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2021/11/12

Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe is beloved around the world for her portrayal of Rita Haywith-Dorman in the Signed, Sealed, Delivered series and films, about the eclectic and dedicated staff of an “undeliverable letters” office. Yan-Kay was only 15 when she booked her first acting gig, and since then she's appeared in an array of roles in films like Snakes on a Plane and Insomnia, and television shows like Smallville, Supernatural, and Republic of Doyle. Along the way, she’s been a scream queen, battled

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00:43:30

Episode 195: What role can Indigenous storytelling...

The YVR Screen Scene Podcast ·

2021/11/09

Kamala Todd is a Métis-Cree community planner, educator, curator, and filmmaker. Her film credits includeIndigenous Plant Diva,Cedar and Bamboo,RELAW: Living Indigenous Laws, andSharing our Stories: the Vancouver Dialogues Project. She writes and directs for children’s television, including the Indigenous science seriesCoyote's Crazy Smart Science Showand the Cree-language series Tansi!Nehiyawetan, both on APTN. She created a video series about Indigenous law for UVic’s Indigenous Law Research Unit,

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01:14:28

Episode 194: Nhi Do

The YVR Screen Scene Podcast ·

2021/11/04

Nhi Do is the definition of a versatile actress. In recent years, Nhi has kicked ass as a straight-talking, gun-toting spy in the award-winning web series NarcoLeap, sparked heartache and confusion for Mary Galloway’s Abe in APTN Lumi’s beloved IndigiQueer series Querencia, stirred hearts as a recently arrived refugee from Vietnam who bonds with an Indigenous family in Louisa Phung’s Hope and Grace, and sparkled as the lead in Upstairs Amy, a phenomenally funny web comedy from the team at

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01:05:56

Episode 193: Brian Markinson on the new season of...

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2021/11/02

Brian Markinson’s filmography is populated by meanies, baddies, ne’er-do-wells, and other assorted characters who live in morally ambiguous zones in shows like The Romeo Section, Mad Men, Continuum, Arctic Air, and The Killing, and films like Shooter, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, and Charlie Wilson’s War. He can currently be seen starring opposite Jessica Matten in Tribal, the second season of which began airing on APTN and APTN Lumi in October. Tribal stars Jessica as Sam Woodburn, a young

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00:59:04

Episode 192: Simone Bailly

The YVR Screen Scene Podcast ·

2021/10/12

Simone Bailly is a screen actress, stage actress, painter, singer, deejay, talk show host, producer, model, sci-fi fan, and fan favourite. Simone’s lengthy filmography includes Battlestar Galactica, NCIS: Los Angeles, The L Word, a series regular role on Da Vinci’s City Hall, Smallville, a popular appearance in the Need for Speed: Most Wanted video game, and the fan favourite role of Ka’lel, a Jaffa warrior who joins the Hak’tyl Resistance, on Stargate SG-1. Recently, Simone entered the talk show

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00:28:50

Episode 191: New documentary explores what it means...

The YVR Screen Scene Podcast ·

2021/10/08

The documentary Emergence: Out of the Shadows confronts the alienation and discrimination faced by queer people dealing with sexuality, gender, and coming-out issues in traditional South Asian communities. The film follows Kayden, Jag, and Alex as they awaken to and express their sexuality within conservative South Asian families in Canada and in India. Heart-wrenching and healing, their individual coming-out paths offer comfort, compassion, and inspiration to queer people and communities struggling

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01:11:35

Episode 190: Steven Roberts

The YVR Screen Scene Podcast ·

2021/10/06

Over the last several years, Steven Roberts has delivered three fearless performances in a trio of searing feature films: in 2019’s In God I Trust, 2020’s Beyond The Woods, and 2021’s River Road. In the first, he’s Tyler, a white supremacist with a hair-trigger temper and major issues with his law enforcement officer dad; in the second, he’s Andrew Bennett, a suspect in the murder of his wife and the disappearance of her brother; in the last, he’s Fresno, a take-no-prisoners drug dealer who laughs

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Episode 189: Carmen Pollard

The YVR Screen Scene Podcast ·

2021/10/01

Carmen Pollard is a documentary filmmaker, editor, producer, and story consultant whose filmography includes For Dear Life, a feature-length documentary in which she sensitively followed her cousin, Vancouver theatre producer James Pollard, in the three and a half years after his terminal cancer diagnosis, and Dancehalls, Deejays & Distortion, an upbeat 10-part series that amplifies little-known stories from B.C.'s eclectic music scene. Carmen’s latest is Militant Mother, a short film about a

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00:37:27

Episode 188: Why Rukiya Bernard made ‘The Blactor’

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2021/09/28

In recent years, actress Rukiya Bernard has spoken publicly and frequently about the blatant racism and racist micro-aggressions she’s experienced as a Black woman in the film and television industry. She’s sat on numerous diversity and inclusion panels. She’s written about it, including in a creative essay titled Dear Becky that we published on the YVR Screen Scene site. She’s spoken about it in multiple media interviews. In short, Rukiya has done a lot of work for a lot of years to make her point

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00:34:21

Episode 187: Mental Health in #BCFilm with Heather...

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2021/09/24

Content warning: This episode contains frank and graphic talk about mental health, mental illness, and suicide. If you’re thinking about suicide or are worried about a friend or a loved one, the Canada Suicide Prevention Service is available 24/7/365 at 1.833.456.4566. You can also find links to international suicide prevention and mental health support services in the footnotes for this episode. You matter. You’re not alone. In the first episode of our series about the relationship between mental

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Episode 186: Kevin Eastwood on his excellent...

The YVR Screen Scene Podcast ·

2021/09/22

Untold history is still history, and it deserves to be heard – and the new Knowledge Network documentary series British Columbia: An Untold History aims to tell largely untold stories from and about the land that is known today as British Columbia. Over the course of four riveting episodes, we see that the region’s history is a confluence of cultures, races, genders, conflicts, and narratives. Through interviews, archival photography, and dramatic re-creations, we learn about the bravery, ignorance,

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01:27:32

Episode 185: Crystal Balint

The YVR Screen Scene Podcast ·

2021/09/20

Crystal Balint has taken us to some fascinating places, eras, and moments in time and space on both screen and stage. On screen, she took us to 1950s San Francisco as the lead in BritBox’s The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco, and into the heart and life of Iris Bearden, a former cryptographer turned brilliant sleuth. As Grace on Disney XD’s Mech X4, she made us laugh and feel big feelings as she struggled to accept the fact that her sons were the pilots of a giant monster-fighting robot. Crystal has

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00:54:20

Episode 184: Jewel Staite, Victor Garber & Susin...

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2021/09/16

Today’s episode is all about Family Law, the highly anticipated Global Original series in which one dysfunctional family helps other dysfunctional families in crisis. With its all-star, all-Canadian cast including Jewel Staite, Victor Garber, Zach Smadu, and Genelle Williams, the 10-episode, one-hour legal drama premieres Friday, September 17 on Global. We enter Family Law by way of Abigail “Abby” Bianchi, played by Jewel. Abby is a whip-smart lawyer, mother, wife, and recovering alcoholic. She’s

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