Push In - The CineVic Podcast

What does it take to produce three feature documentaries, a feature comedy, and have two more in the works? Producer Leslie Bland shares the “special sauce” that’s made his production companies Orca Cove Media and Less Bland Productions so successful. There’s plenty to learn as he tells host Joyce Kline why filmmaking pulled him away from a successful career in live professional theatre, how he made cross-cultural connections through his collaboration with Cowichan filmmaker Harold Joe, and how, in a competitive world, sticking with original IP can lead to success.LESLIE BLAND’s film and TV work has been featured on Bell Media, Discovery Networks, Amazon, Super Channel, Knowledge Network, FNX, Télé Quebec, Hollywood Suite, APTN, and streamers and broadcasters in New Zealand, France, China, Australia and around the world. His award-winning, feature length documentary Gone South: How Canada Invented Hollywood featured interviews with celebrities Howie Mandel, Neve Campbell, David Foster, David Shore, Shannon Tweed and the late Alex Trebek. About Leslie: https://lessblandproductions.co, https://orcacovemedia.comLinked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leslie-bland-b401b941/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leslie.bland.96/IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3736322/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/orcacovemedia/?hl=enSubscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts:https://apple.co/2S5WB7qPodcast Production Team:·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican·      Host, Researcher & copywriter: Joyce Kline·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta

KATHLEEN GILBERT, long-time CineVic supporter and head of Vancouver Island South Film & Media Commission shares what the Film Commission actually does, how it's financed, what it can offer indie filmmakers, and how we can support their work to expand local film production. Learn what she considers the biggest accomplishment—and  biggest disappointment—of her tenure as Commissioner. Kathleen Gilbert took on the job of Film Commissioner in 2010 after a lengthy career as a location manager for film and TV. Under her dedicated leadership, by 2022 alone, the Capitol Regional District’s burgeoning film industry had grown from bringing $6 to $60 million dollars a year to the Capitol Regional District’s economy.About Kathleen:Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathleen-gilbert-831b931a/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kathleen.d.gilbertIMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0318126/Vancouver Island South Film & Media Commission:https://www.filmvictoria.com/Subscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts:https://apple.co/2S5WB7qPodcast Production Team:·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican·      Host, Researcher & copywriter: Joyce Kline·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta

Did you know Victoria had one of the first film studios in Canada and the province’s first film commission? Here's your chance to learn the fascinating history of filmmaking in southern Vancouver Island from someone who knows the film scene inside and out - outgoing Head of the Vancouver Island South Film & Media Commission, Kathleen Gilbert.Kathleen took on the job of Commissioner in 2010 after a lengthy career as a location manager for film and TV. Under her dedicated leadership by 2022 alone, the Capitol Regional District’s film industry had grown from contributing $6 million to $60 million a year in direct spending. Listen up as she shares her start as a founder member of Cinevic, her weirdest encounter as a location manager and what she’ll miss most when she moves on from Commissioner to civilian.Mentioned in this episode: https://www.filmvictoria.com/About Kathleen:Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathleen-gilbert-831b931a/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kathleen.d.gilbertIMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0318126/Subscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts:https://apple.co/2S5WB7q Podcast Production Team:·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican·      Host, Researcher & copywriter: Joyce Kline·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta

Who else but innovative City of Victoria Artist-In-Residence Kemi Craig would find links between Afrofuturism, west African free divers’ traditional spiritual practice of Orisha, and the spirits of captives drowned in the west African slave trade? In work encompassing immersive, multi-sensory, site-specific installations and performances, this innovative dancer, filmmaker, multi-media creator and performance artist creates analog and digital work deeply rooted in themes of anti-oppression and social justice. Since getting her start in film at Cinevic Society of Independent Filmmakers, Kemi has participated in artist’s residency programs with CineVic, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and Dance Victoria, and guest curated the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria’s programming series Blueprints for the Afrofuture. Currently, she is the City of Victoria Artist-In-Residence. Referred to in this episode:Music group Drexciya: https://open.spotify.com/album/7bBx5uPv2YgRIAFyXBWhEV About Kemi:Website: https://www.kemicraig.comInstagram:  http://www.instagram.com/kemi.craigFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/kemi.craigIMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3008707/Kemi’s projects:Afroquatics: https://aggv.ca/exhibits/afroquatics/Blueprints for the Afrofuture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U654RmSSLU4UVic talk: https://gatewaytoart.uvic.ca/2024/02/05/artists-talk-kemi-craig/What Home Means to Youhttps://www.victoria.ca/city-government/news/free-super-8-film-screening-what-home-means-you-0Subscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts:https://apple.co/2S5WB7q Podcast Production Team:·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican·      Host, Researcher & copywriter: Joyce Kline·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta

From how to apply for the position, to how much you’ll get paid, Victoria’s 2022-24 Artist-in-Residence Kemi Craig shares everything you ever wanted to know about her job but were afraid to ask!Kemi is a dancer, filmmaker, multi-media creator and performance artist whose work encompasses immersive, multi-sensory, site-specific installations and performances that encourage audience and community engagement. After getting her start in film at Cinevic Society of Independent Filmmakers, she's participated in artist’s residency programs with CineVic, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and Dance Victoria. Most recently she was guest curator for the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria’s programming series Blueprints for the Afrofuture. She holds an MFA degree from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and her work with both analog and digital technologies is rooted in themes of anti-oppression and social justice.Mentioned in this episode:What Home Means to Youhttps://www.victoria.ca/city-government/news/free-super-8-film-screening-what-home-means-you-0About Kemi:Website: https://www.kemicraig.comInstagram:  http://www.instagram.com/kemi.craigFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/kemi.craigIMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3008707/ Kemi’s projects:Blueprints for the Afrofuture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U654RmSSLU4UVic talk: https://gatewaytoart.uvic.ca/2024/02/05/artists-talk-kemi-craig/Subscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts:https://apple.co/2S5WB7q Podcast Production Team:·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican·      Host, Researcher & copywriter: Joyce Kline·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta

You may say you’ll never do it but, if you’re an indie filmmaker, chances are at some point you’re probably going to wind up producing your own work. In this fun and frank episode, actor, writer, director, and producer Ana de Lara really tells it like it is: Why ultra low budget films are so tough to produce, how she ended up producing in the first place, and why producing  isn’t fun! An accomplished actor, Ana also shares what it’s like to be flown to Prague for a Cascade commercial, and being cast as everything from Chinese to Indigenous...when you’re a Filipina-Canadian. Ana de Lara has 17 awards and 5 nominations for her award-winning short films and the two features she’s produced: All In Madonna and Open for Submissions. A Women in the Director’s Chair alumna, she won Telefilm’s New Voices Award, Talent to Watch, Whistler Film Festival MPPIA Award, Vancouver Women in Film Matrix and Best Narrative Short awards, Broad Humor Film Festival’s Best Director, and Asians on Film Best Comedy and Best Screenplay Awards.Watch a few of Ana’s shorts: Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/anadelaraYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqXaXMzVXEqtTt3ttNY6tvAMore about Ana: IMDb: https://m.imdb.com/name/nm1891405/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anadelaraonline/WIDC: https://www.widc.ca/director/ana-de-lara/Subscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts:https://apple.co/2S5WB7q Podcast Production Team:·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican·      Host, Researcher & copywriter: Joyce Kline·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta

With all the talk about toxic masculinity, it’s a real treat to watch a film that explores traditionally held “masculine” qualities like aggression, competitiveness — even homophobia — while also acknowledging masculinity’s potential for tenderness, nurturance, and protectiveness. Working with amateur actors from the Bogotá barrio, filmmaker Andrés Felipe Ángel manages to pull that off and more in his sensitive autobiographical coming of age film Rage. It’s a real treat to hear Andrés share how he developed the film from a single visual image, why he’s a self-styled “cultural manager,” trends in Columbian filmmaking, being in consideration for the 2025 Academy Awards, and finding the perfect litter of puppies he needed for Rage.Andrés is an audiovisual producer and live performer in the Bogotá drag scene. His films include Rage — Fieras in Spanish — and Bogotá Se Quema. Rage screened at the Moscow International Film Festival and the Bogotá Short Film Festival, where it won Best Screenplay, Best Direction and Best Short Film and is in consideration for the 2025 Academy Awards. Now it will screen in this year’s Short Circuit Pacific Rim Film Festival. More about Andrés:IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm13942771/Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andres-felipe-angel-3b505b188/More about Rage: https://mubi.com/en/ca/films/rage-2023-andres-felipe-angel Rage at 2024 Short Circuit Pacific Rim Film Festival: https://cinevic.ca/short-circuit-film-festival-2024/Subscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts:https://apple.co/2S5WB7q Podcast Production Team:·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican·      Host, Researcher & copywriter: Joyce Kline·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta

When you’re on set and your film deals with the potentially triggering subject of suicide, how do you provide for the physical and emotional needs of a diverse cast and crew? This was the challenge that led filmmaker Ana de Lara to collaborate with Women In the Director’s Chair to develop a ground breaking new program called Safer Creative Spaces. In this episode, Ana shares how the program helped her create a more caring environment on the set of her upcoming web series Best Friend Me. Ana de Lara has 17 awards and 5 nominations for her award-winning short films and features All In Madonna and Open for Submissions. She’s a Women in the Director’s Chair alumna, winner of Telefilm’s New Voices Award, Talent to Watch, Whistler Film Festival MPPIA Award, Vancouver Women in Film Matrix and Best Narrative Short awards, Broad Humor Film Festival’s Best Director, and Asians on Film Best Comedy and Best Screenplay Awards.More information on Women In The Director's Chair: https://www.widc.ca/Watch a few of Ana’s shorts: Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/anadelaraYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqXaXMzVXEqtTt3ttNY6tvAMore about Ana: IMDb: https://m.imdb.com/name/nm1891405/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anadelaraonline/WIDC: https://www.widc.ca/director/ana-de-lara/Subscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts:https://apple.co/2S5WB7q Podcast Production Team:·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican·      Host, Researcher & copywriter: Joyce Kline·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta

Is your concept brave enough to be “not safe, taboo," or “mean and awful”?  Filipina/Canadian filmmaker Ana de Lara thinks it just might make a great comedy! In Part I of our interview with this multiple award-winning Filipina/Canadian actor/writer/director/producer, Ana tells us about Best Friend Me—her six-episode comedy web series that involves the topic of...suicide? Learn from this comedy pro how she  works with family, knows when an idea has legs, and how you too, can “make anything funny.” Ana has 17 awards and 5 nominations for her award-winning short films and features All In Madonna and Open for Submissions. She’s a Women in the Director’s Chair alumna, winner of Telefilm’s New Voices Award, Talent to Watch, Whistler Film Festival MPPIA Award, Vancouver Women in Film Matrix and Best Narrative Short awards, Broad Humor Film Festival’s Best Director, and Asians on Film Best Comedy and Best Screenplay Awards.Watch a few of Ana’s shorts: Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/anadelaraYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqXaXMzVXEqtTt3ttNY6tvAMore about Ana: IMDb: https://m.imdb.com/name/nm1891405/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anadelaraonline/WIDC: https://www.widc.ca/director/ana-de-lara/Subscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts:https://apple.co/2S5WB7q Podcast Production Team:·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican·      Host, Researcher & copywriter: Joyce Kline·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta

The brutal “treatments” that the Canadian government and CIA jointly funded at the height of the Cold War era’s brainwashing paranoia are the stuff of nightmares. Patients with diagnoses as innocent as postpartum depression were rendered virtual zombies for life, creating a legacy of intergenerational trauma and perpetrator guilt that inspired filmmaker Emanuel Foucault’s riveting short film Washer. In this episode Emanuel describes:·      The devastating mind control experiments conducted at Montreal’s notorious Allen Memorial Institute.·      Adapting history for a short film.·      Finding amazing actors. ·      Crowd-funding three times more money than he asked for.·      His plans for a tree planting horror story!EMANUEL FOUCAULT is an actor, writer, editor and producer for both stage and screen dividing his time between Montreal and Victoria.Mentioned in this episode:Washer  website: https://www.washerfilm.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090440931002More about Emanuel:Watch Emanuel’s Old Chain music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4ffoBqU9Xs Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/foucault_emanuel/IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12355968/Subscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts:https://apple.co/2S5WB7q Podcast Production Team:·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican·      Host, Researcher & copywriter: Joyce Kline·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta

If you’re interested in ways a filmmaker’s career can advance, this is an episode you won’t want to miss!  Listen up as multiple award-winning Vancouver writer/director Connor Gaston shares the roots of his fascination with reincarnation, the value of graduating from programs like the Canadian Film Centre and the TIFF Talent Lab, and what ultimately got him meetings in Hollywood that landed him an LA manager.Connor’s films have screened in prestigious festivals around the world including TIFF, Busan, Sapporo, Sedona, Newport Beach, Whistler, and Vancouver Film Festival—along the way winning multiple Leos and other awards including a Grand Prix in Paris’s Courts Devant short film festival. He won the BC Emerging Filmmaker Award at Vancouver International Film Festival, graduated from Norman Jewison’s Canadian Film Centre, and was a member of the 2017 TIFF Talent Lab. He currently teaches at the Vancouver Film School.Mentioned in this episode:Watch The Cameraman on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/323984793Other films:Watch Encore on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/601186469Watch Adam in the Wall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqMx4zJwDu0More about Connor:IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4497477/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/connor-gaston-94560068/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/connorgaston/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/connor.gastonX: https://twitter.com/connorgastonSubscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts:https://apple.co/2S5WB7q Podcast Production Team:·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican·      Host, Researcher & copywriter: Joyce Kline·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta

There’s certain to be lots that filmmakers and other creatives can relate to in part one of Joyce Kline’s two-part interview with Vancouver based, internationally award-winning, writer/director Connor Gaston. With humour and rare honesty, Connor shares the joys and challenges of growing up in a household of writers, adapting his own father’s novel, collaborating with his brother Vaughn, directing children, and how he bounces back when something doesn’t work. Connor’s films have screened in prestigious festivals around the world including TIFF, Busan, Sapporo, Sedona, Newport Beach, Whistler, and Vancouver Film Festival—along the way winning multiple Leos and other awards including a Grand Prix in Paris’s Courts Devant short film festival. He won the BC Emerging Filmmaker Award at Vancouver International Film Festival, graduated from Norman Jewison’s Canadian Film Centre, and was a member of the 2017 TIFF Talent Lab.  He currently teaches at the Vancouver Film School.Mentioned in this episode:Watch The Cameraman on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/323984793Other films:Watch Encore on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/601186469Watch Adam in the Wall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqMx4zJwDu0More about Connor:IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4497477/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/connor-gaston-94560068/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/connorgaston/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/connor.gastonX: https://twitter.com/connorgastonSubscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts:https://apple.co/2S5WB7q Podcast Production Team:·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican·      Host, Researcher & copywriter: Joyce Kline·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta

Last episode, we heard from one of the most requested camera operators in Canada, award-winning, daredevil cinematographer DAVID MALYSHEFF.  David is known for delivering the goods under extreme conditions - filming from horseback, helicopters, and even Zodiacs crashing their way through rapids. This episode, David fills us in on his quieter, but no less moving, personal passion project - creating a 90-minute documentary on the late Jewish composer Peter Gary and Gary’s epic holocaust oratorio A 20th Century Passion. Listen in as David explains how holocaust survivor Gary worked to “Stamp Out Hate” through both music and lectures to 60,00 youngsters, what drew him to his story, and how the current situation in Israel and Gaza have affected crowdfunding to complete the film.With more than 25 years of television production experience in film and broadcast video, David Malysheff has been behind the camera on numerous Canadian TV shows including The Nature of Things, The Fifth Estate, The Amazing Race, Moosemeat & Marmalade, Canada’s Next Top Model and the moving documentary Us and Them, which he also co-produced.  Mentioned in this episode: Listen to a performance of Peter Gary’s A Twentieth Century Passion oratorio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGpv4fNO4tYA Twentieth Century Passion Go Fund Me campaign: https://www.gofundme.com/f/gxp8kd-a-20th-century-passion-film David’s website: https://gamutproductions.com/about IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0540926/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-malysheff-95686018/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gamut_productions/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gamutproductions/ Subscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts:https://apple.co/2S5WB7q Podcast Production Team:·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican·      Host, Researcher & copywriter: Joyce Kline·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta

Not many cinematographers shoot on submarines or from horseback, helicopters and kayaks - but today’s guest filmmaker, award-winning industry veteran David Malysheff, has done exactly that.  With more than 25 years of television production experience in film and broadcast video, David Malysheff has been behind the camera on numerous Canadian TV shows including The Nature of Things, The Fifth Estate, The Amazing Race, Moosemeat & Marmalade, Canada’s Next Top Model and the moving documentary Us and Them, which he also co-produced. Buckle up as he shares tales of his scariest moment, helping out Dennis Hopper, and getting Harrison Ford on board for his documentary The Immortal Beaver.Mentioned in this episode:The Immortal Beaver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wQjAB-jnI8&themeRefresh=1 Website: https://gamutproductions.com/about IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0540926/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-malysheff-95686018/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gamut_productions/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gamutproductions/Subscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts:https://apple.co/2S5WB7q Podcast Production Team:·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican·      Host, Researcher & copywriter: Joyce Kline·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta

Film sets are high pressure environments with brutally long hours and the traditionally hierarchical structure of a military campaign. In this episode, filmmaker and much sought-after editor Lesley Marshall tells us how she balances the needs of her young daughter with her work in the film industry, why she thinks we should demand on set childcare, and what employing anti-oppression based filmmaking and horizontal leadership structures would look like.Lesley is an award-winning filmmaker whose films have screened in 40 festivals nationally and internationally, whose music videos have been featured on sites like Rolling Stone, American Songwriter, Vice and Exclaim!, whose projection art has been performed at the National Art Centre, Montreal Jazz Fest, CentrePHI, and in galleries in NYC, the Netherlands and across Canada. Her production company MAVNetwork, has worked with Netflix, Vox Media, TD Bank, and MLB, among others. Lesley’s website: https://les666.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/lesley.demon?locale=en_GBMentioned in this episode:Lesley’s Cinevic Workshop: https://cinevic.ca/event/film-production-workshop-location-sound-and-red-camera-2023-12-02-03/Murder at the Circus: https://les666.com/portfolio/murder-at-the-circus/Subscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts:https://apple.co/2S5WB7q Podcast Production Team:·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican·      Host, Researcher & copywriter: Joyce Kline·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta

Unless you’re already a well-heeled nepo baby, this might be the one Push In episode you literally can’t afford to miss! Last episode, Push In interviewed filmmaker Denver Jackson, the brilliant creator and one-man animation team behind the web series Esluna: The Crown of Babylon, the feature Esluna: The First Monolith and the upcoming feature The Worlds Divide. This episode, Denver shares how he’s financed his films, why he picked Kickstarter as his crowd funding platform, his fundraising hook and donor perks, and how he built a social media fan base that helped him raise over $102,000.Denver has singlehandedly written, directed, animated and edited numerous award-winning short animations, an entire animated web series - and he’s currently in post on his second animated feature film. His films have screened around the world - including at three Academy Award-qualifying festival, been a prestigious Vimeo Staff Pick, and won Best Animated Film at San Diego Comic Con International Film Festival and Heartland Film Festival. Denver’s films:YouTube video on the making of The Worlds Divide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twwChA4OjjsEsaluna: The Crown of Babylon trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcbhSvw3d1QThe Worlds Divide teaser trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E56og3Eog0MLearn more about Denver:IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3364672/Website: http://www.cloudrisepictures.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/denver.jackson/Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/denver.jacksonSubscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts:https://apple.co/2S5WB7qPodcast Production Team:·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican·      Host, Researcher & copywriter: Joyce Kline·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta

Pride yourself on being hard working and dedicated to your art? Well, this interview with award-winning Victoria animator Denver Jackson will make you feel like a total slacker! Buckle up as this one-man powerhouse shares how he got into animation, the brutal details of his typical work day, the importance of keeping focus to complete projects, and why he’ll never use generative AI.Denver Jackson has singlehandedly written, directed, animated and edited numerous award-winning short animations, an entire animated web series--and he’s currently in post on his second animated feature film. His films have screened around the world—including at three Academy Award-qualifying festivals—been a prestigious Vimeo Staff Pick, and won Best Animated Film at San Diego Comic Con International Film Festival and Heartland Film Festival. Mentioned in this episode:YouTube video on making of The Worlds Divide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twwChA4OjjsEsluna: The Crown of Babylon trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcbhSvw3d1QThe Worlds Divide teaser trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E56og3Eog0MIMDb:https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3364672/awards/?ref_=nm_awdWebsite: http://www.cloudrisepictures.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/denver.jackson/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denver.jacksonSubscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts:https://apple.co/2S5WB7qPodcast Production Team:·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican·      Host, Researcher & Copywriter: Joyce Kline·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta

This September, after over 40 years, Victoria’s iconic Pic A Flic Video will close, imperiling its unrivaled collection of 25,000 cult classics, musicals, foreign films, sci-fi, short films, silent movies, independent animations and rare documentaries you can’t find anywhere else. Video stores may be an endangered species, but losing this treasure trove of film history would be an extinction event! That’s why Push In’s host Joyce Kline and director Paul Ruta teamed up to interview film buff and Pic A Flic owner Kent Bendall on the store’s history, holdings, zany customers, and the future of the collection.Gentle listeners, Pic a Flic needs an action hero to come to its aid. So if you’re out there,  Atom Egoyan or Ryan Reynolds, or if you don’t want to see the collection terminated, James Cameron, or you want to foster parent it, David Foster, or you don’t want this good thing to come to an end, Nelly Furtado, please listen up!Read more about Pic a Flic’s closure:https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/victoria-video-store-closing-1.6853653https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/pic-a-flic-victoria-movie-rentalhttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-vancouver-islands-last-video-store-plays-on-for-new-generations-of/Pic a Flic website: https://pic-a-flic.videoInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/picaflicvideo/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/picaflicvideo/Shaw TV Spotlight Interview with Kent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbJ5ixrnJa8Subscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts:https://apple.co/2S5WB7q Podcast Production Team:·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican·      Host, Researcher & copywriter: Joyce Kline·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta

Host Joyce Kline reaches across the Pacific for a fun chat with Singapore based, BAFTA-nominated animator Calleen Koh.  Calleen’s short To Kill the Birds and the Bees—a real highlight of this year’s Short Circuit Pacific Rim Film Festival—will screen again in Ottawa June 21st as part of Short Circuit’s National Tour. Hear how this talented young filmmaker stays gutsy with her daring and quirky material and her take on everything from Catholic Sex Ed and the  filmmaking scene in Singapore, to getting a BAFTA Student nomination, and the weird responses men have had to her blatantly sexual animated films.Referred to in this episode: To Kill the Birds and Bees trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH98qHfZFJw Hot Buns trailer: https://vimeo.com/809648470 Watch Sexy Sushi: https://calleenkohart.myportfolio.com/sexy-sushi About Calleen: Website: https://calleenkohart.myportfolio.com/films IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm13461008/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/calleen-koh-4b740b117 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/calleenkoh/Subscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2S5WB7q Podcast Production Team:·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican·      Host, Researcher & Copywriter: Joyce Kline·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul RutaSubscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts:https://apple.co/2S5WB7q Podcast Production Team:·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican·      Host, Researcher & Copywriter: Joyce Kline·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta

In this fun episode, Joyce meets up with writing/directing team Sonya Chwyl and Anik Desmarais-Spencer. Their latest short horror comedy Slip poses a sadly relatable question for these inflationary times: “How far will you go to keep your shitty rental?” Slip just won Audience Choice at this year’s Short Circuit Pacific Film Festival and you can watch it on the big screen for free in Regina, Ottawa and St. John’s as part of Short Circuit’s 2023 National Tour.  Anik and Sonya’s last film Baby Teeth won Outstanding BC Film in  Short Circuit’s 2020 festival and both films have screened in festivals US and Canada wide. Listen up as this dynamic duo not only “dissects” the glory—and the gory—of using fake blood on screen, they also share:·      What they learned from previous films.·      Why, for them, co-directing is like "being in a solid, committed relationship.”·      What they did to get a corpse’s POV shot for Baby Teeth. Referred to in this episode:Slip trailer: https://vimeo.com/809648470 Watch Slip as part of Short Circuit’s 2023 National Tour: https://cinevic.ca/short-circuit-film-festival-2023-national-tour/ Baby Teeth trailer: https://vimeo.com/387733966 Follow Sonya:IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10533132/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonyachwyl/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sonya.cyl/ Follow Anik: IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11335305/Subscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2S5WB7q Podcast Production Team:·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican·      Host, Researcher & Copywriter: Joyce Kline·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta