Face2Face with David Peck

Astra Taylor and Face2Face host David Peck talk about her new film What Is Democracy , the house with the white picket fence, what its like the day after the protest, public love and activism and why we should all put on a ridiculous dress from time to time. Trailer Synopsis Coming at a moment of profound political and social crisis Astra’s new film What Is Democracy reflects on a word we too ofte...

Imogen Thomas and David Peck talk about her new film Emu Runner , social realism, loss and grief, challenging stereotypes, intergenerational trauma, taking more time for others and indigenous rights and cultures in Australia. Trailer Emu Runner is a story about a nine-year-old Indigenous girl, Gem Daniels, who lives in a remote Australian town. As she copes with her mother’s unexpected death, Gem...

Nandita Das and David Peck talk about her new film Manto, dignity and context, subversive push back, normalized equality, deep convictions, having a social conscience and activism and why you need to be yourself, because everyone else is already taken. Trailer Synopsis Manto begins in an optimistic India waiting to be free from British colonial rule. No one has any idea of the upheaval the Partiti...

There are two certainties in life right? And one of those things is taxes. At least that’s the cliché we are so often reminded of in casual conversation. Death, assisted care and ending life well are not things we often talk about. Janet Dunnett wants to change that. The stats suggest that one in four Canadians will be living in assisted care in the not so distant future. Sobering though really is...

Molly Murphy and David Peck talk about The Mudgirls Building Initiative, patriarchy, capitalism, applied activism, patience and problem solving and why its important not to leave anyone behind. Biography The Mudgirls are a network of women builders on the west coast of BC, Canada. They specialize in using local, natural and recycled materials and can be hired to build with you or for you and to cr...

Filming in difficult conditions led producer Marina Cordoni to comment that she faced, …one of the most important days of her life. This was on the set of the new film Never Saw It Coming. This is a feminist drama starring her and director Gail Harvey. Keisha Ceylon is a psychic. At least, that’s what she passes herself off as. She watches the news for stories of missing family members and by the...

The current Indian act was first passed in 1876 -- it's been amended but the original act is still in force. In 2002, there were twenty major amendments made but the fact remains that it's based on an old act that was written when settlers' relationships with Indigenous people was different than it is today. The Indian Act is a dense document and there are many things wrong with it. Today's F...

Dev Aujla and David Peck talk about 50 Ways to Get A Job , finding meaning in the simple things, giving back, the road less travelled and why relationships are key to pretty much everything. Dev Aujla is the CEO of Catalog, an insight and recruiting firm that has provided talent and strategy to some of the world’s most innovative companies including BMW, GOOD Magazine, Change.org, and Planned...

    Adriane Franklin and David Peck talk about feminine hygiene, poverty and social justice, simple solutions, her desire for a more equitable playing field and why the little things matter. Adriane Franklin is the volunteer creator and team leader of the Mississauga Days for Girls team.  She started the team in March 2016 after hearing about it the Christmas before and thinking about what a perfe...

Greg Paul and David Peck talk about his weapons of love, bad, crazy, vicious religion, belief, and the politics of fear, vulnerability, oppression, exclusion and the enormous problem of faith. Greg Paul is a pastor and member, as well as the founder, of the Sanctuary community in Toronto. Sanctuary, a community in which people who are wealthy and people who are poor live, work and share their expe...

Andrew MacLeod and David Peck talk about mental health, choices and social context, addiction, brokenness, trauma, thinking collectively and a health in all policies approach to wellness. Synopsis Never before have individuals faced so much conflicting information about how to be healthy: a constant rotation of fad diets, extreme workout regimens and celebrity-endorsed supplements are re...

Ajay Parasram and I talked about redemption songs and protest music, solidarity as a verb, inspiration, cosmopolitanism, Bob Marley and why some of the best activists are in the hard sciences. Biography Ajay Parasram is a transnational, multi-generational by-product of British empire living and working in K’jipuktuk, unceded Mi’kma’qi. He is Assistant Professor in the departments of International...

Cameron Mullenneaux and David Peck talk about her brave and brilliant new film Exit Music , regrets and imagination, living and dying well, short-term goals and being guided by love. Synopsis Exit Music is a documentary film that travels the intimate and complex path of terminal illness. Ethan Rice was born with cystic fibrosis, an incurable genetic illness that eventually leads to respiratory fai...

Margarita Cadenas and David Peck talk about her new film Women of the Venezuelan Chaos , truth and justice, human rights abuses, food shortages and why we must speak truth to power. Synopsis Five Venezuelan women, from different backgrounds and generations, draw a portrait of their collapsing country that faces a significant social, economic, power, and political crisis in its 200-year history.&nb...

  Velcrow Ripper, Nova Ami and David Peck talk about the myth of Proteus, cynicism, grieving loss, submersive art, futurelessness and what wise and radical hope really looks like. Synopsis A poem for the planet, Nova Ami and Velcow Ripper’s film  Metamorphosis  takes the pulse of our Earth and bears witness to a moment of profound change: the loss of one world, and the birth of another. Metamorpho...

Mor Loushy, Daniel Sivan and David Peck talk about The Oslo Diaries , secret meetings, common languages, enemies as friends, land disputes and what we’re leaving behind for our children. Synopsis In 1992, with Israeli-Palestinian relations at an all-time low and any communication punishable with jail time, a small group of Israelis and Palestinians gathered in Oslo – secretly and against the law....

  Matthew Shoycet, Ricki Gurwitz and David Peck talk about their new film The Accountant of Auschwitz , guilt, complicity, brainwashing and where one draws moral versus legal lines. Synopsis In the sleepy town of Luneberg, Germany, most days are quiet and uneventful. But one morning in September 2014, a 93 year-old man was charged with accessory to murder...of 300,000 people. Seventy years earlier...

Julie Eng, Daniel Zuckerbot and David Peck talk about their new film The Science of Magic , change blindness, assumptions, subverting reality, free will, doubt and the problems of perception. Synopsis Magic has become the latest investigative tool for scientists exploring human cognition, neurobiology, and behaviour. Across Canada, the US and Europe, our film follows researchers who are bringing m...

Brian McLaren and David Peck talk about his new book The Great Spiritual Migration , framing stories, confirmation bias, difference as assets, patriarchy as a weapon, a system of beliefs versus a way of life and the way of love. Biography Brian D. McLaren is an author, speaker, activist, and public theologian. A former college English teacher and pastor, he is a passionate advocate for a new kind...

Elizabeth Mirzaei and David Peck talk about her new film Laila At The Bridge , opium production in Afghanistan, freedom and oppression, bravery, corruption and persistence, corruption, systemic misogyny and the love of a Mother.  Synopsis In a country offering almost no treatment services despite a crisis of addiction, Laila Haidari took the highly unusual decision to found her own pioneering addi...

Pablo Bryant, Fish and David Peck talk about their new film Cartooning from the Deep End, politics and power, personal responsibility, why life is precious and asking good questions and living in a sell out culture. Synopsis In this feature documentary we discover the dangerously funny cartoonist Mr. Fish, struggling to make a living in an industry that is dying out. In a world where consumerism i...

Alba Sotorra and David Peck talk about her new film Commander Arian , liberation, gender disparity, equal rights, real democracy, implementing a feminist state and women, war and freedom. Synopsis Filmmaker Alba Sotorra embeds with this group of Kurdish resistance fighters gaining unprecedented access to the Commander and her troops, when Commander Arian is hit by 5 bullets, So...

Yasemin Şamdereli and David Peck talk about her new film Night of all Nights , love, sex and relationships, living in fast times, patience, romanticism, cloud 9, others and what really counts in a relationship. Synopsis An inter-caste couple from India that had to break with their families in order to get married, a Japanese couple that was forced to marry and struggles with love, a German postwar...

Beatrice Behn and René Gebhardt talk about their new film The Artist and the Pervert , love and destructive desires, the complicated relationship between art and life, voyeurism, the clichéd representation of others and espresso machines as inspiration. Watch the Trailer here . Synopsis Georg Friedrich Haas is arguably the most important living composer of symphonic music, but also a descendant of...

Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck talk about their fascinating and important new film The Cleaners , censorship, the new digital public, content moderators, and what it means to outsource responsibility. Watch the Trailer here . Synopsis Enter a hidden third world shadow industry of digital cleaning, where the Internet rids itself of what it doesn't like. Here we meet five “digital scavengers” amon...