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[9 May 2022]

The filmmaker Jeremiah Hayes discusses his new documentary Dear Audrey, a film that looks at the life and work of filmmaker Martin Duckworth and how he cares for his wife, the photographer Audrey Schirmer after her diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease, with Joseph Planta.

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[1 Oct 2021]

The director, writer and producer of The White Fortress, a new feature length drama film, Igor Drljaca talks to Joseph Planta about the film and more, now playing at the Vancouver International Film Festival, streaming and in-person 01-11 October 2021.

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[29 Sep 2021]

The award-winning writer and director Martin Edralin discusses his feature film debut Islands, a film about a Filipino immigrant to Canada’s experience as a shy bachelor wanting love and caring for his aging parents, playing this week in-person at the Vancouver International Film Festival, and streaming across Canada (until 11 October 2021), with Joseph Planta.

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[31 May 2021]

The filmmaker Joella Cabalu discusses her new short film, Ode to a Seafaring People, on Filipino seafarers, part of the Behind the Façade series for Knowledge Network, with Joseph Planta.

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[31 May 2021]

The academic and filmmaker Lyana Patrick discusses her three new short films, The Train Station, The Tomahawk, and A Place to Belong, part of Knowledge Network’s Behind the Façade series of films debuting Thursday, 03 June 2021, with Joseph Planta.

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[26 May 2021]

Professor Ira Wells of Victoria College at the University of Toronto discusses his new biography Norman Jewison: A Director’s Life (Sutherland House, 2021), with Joseph Planta.

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[6 May 2021]

The filmmaker Anthony Banua-Simon discusses his documentary Cane Fire, a historical and critical look at the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i, with its depictions in Hollywood films and his own family story (playing at DOXA: Documentary Film Festival, 06-16 May 2021), with Joseph Planta.

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[6 May 2021]

The distinguished filmmaker Nettie Wild discusses her seminal 2002 film FIX: The Story of an Addicted City, as it gets screened again as part of the DOXA: Documentary Film Festival (until 16 May 2021); the film is a look at the raucous debates in Vancouver nearly twenty years ago, as it struggled to start Canada’s first safe injection site, with Joseph Planta.

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[5 May 2021]

The filmmaker Joella Cabalu discusses the new film she’s directed, Koto: The Last Service, that debuts at DOXA: Documentary Film Festival (06-16 May 2021); the film documents the closing of a longtime Campbell River Japanese restaurant, its family at the heart of the film, and the community around it, with Joseph Planta.

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[5 May 2021]

The filmmaker Dominque Keller discusses her new documentary Love: The Last Chapter, depicting love in the later years of six seniors, which is having its world premiere at DOXA: Documentary Film Festival (06-16 May 2021), with Joseph Planta.