The director of programming at DOXA, the Documentary Film Festival Selina Crammond discusses this week’s inaugural Vancouver Podcast Festival (08, 09, 10 November 2018), with Joseph Planta.

Text of introduction by Joseph Planta:

I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, at TheCommentary.ca.

The inaugural Vancouver Podcast Festival is this Thursday, Friday and Saturday. It’s being presented by DOXA, the Documentary Film Festival, and joining me now to preview what’s going to be happening down at the Vancouver Public Library, as well as at The Rio (and elsewhere) is Selina Crammond. She is the director of programming at DOXA, succeeding Dorothy Woodend earlier this year. Some 41% of Canadians, and the number is seemingly growing, listen to podcasts for news, comedy, and long-form narratives. There will be panels of podcast producers and performers, discussing the medium and its ubiquity. There will also be workshops and tapings of some popular CBC podcasts including the acclaimed On Drugs hosted by Geoff Turner, and Vancouver’s 2050: Degrees of Change, hosted by Johanna Wagstaffe, which won a Jack Webster Award last week. I’ll be looking forward to a live taping of one my favourite shows, Pop This! with Lisa Christensen and Andrea Warner, the latter who will also be hosting a conversation with Karina Longworth of the great You Must Remember This. That’s at the Rio on Thursday evening, 08 November 2018. The theme of the festival is “True Crime and Justice,” and there’ll be appearances by David Ridgen of the Someone Knows Something podcast, as well as Madeleine Baran of In the Dark. I’ll actually be hosting three panels. The first is the Podcasting and Politics panel with Alex de Boer of CITR’s Seeking Office podcast, Ian Bushfield from Cambie Report, and Charlie Demers of Well Reds. That’s 2pm on Thursday at the Central Branch of the Vancouver Public Library. Then at 4.00pm, I’ll be conducting the conversation for the Podcasting and/as Journalism panel featuring Madeline Baran, Shiral Tobin of the CBC, and one of the fellows from UBC’s Cited. On Friday morning at 11.00am, I’ll be in conversation with Jodie Martinson about her remarkable podcast Other Peoples Problems. Visit www.vanpodfest.ca for tickets and information. A lot of the panels are free, including the Harry Potter extravaganza Saturday, featuring much discussion and dress-up of the J.K. Rowling creation. Other than her work at DOXA since 2012, Selina Crammond was with the Vancouver International Film Festival and Vancity Theatre for four years. Visit www.doxafestival.ca for more. Please welcome to the Planta: On the Line program, Selina Crammond; Ms. Crammond, good morning.

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