Endeavours Radio

Eleanor Reissa is Tony and Drama Desk-nominated actor, writer and director active in both English and Yiddish Theatre. The daughter of Holocaust fighters, she has released the memoir The Letters Project: A Daughter's Journey, which chronicles her discovery of her father's letters to her mother after surviving Auschwitz, his testimony to receive reparations, and his journey to America. Eleanor's re...

Director SJ Creazzo and actor Michael Ironside talk about their film Skipping Stones, which is available now on VOD and streaming. Visit dreamalityentertainment.biz for more information on where to find it. Subscribe: Apple, Spotify, Google, Amazon, Pandora, Deezer Socials @EndeavoursRadio

Alastair Bonnett is a professor of Social Geography at Newcastle University. He discusses his new book Multiracism: Re-thinking Racism in Global Context, and looks at the many ways society examines racism including culturally, socially, ethnically, environmentally, even politically. He touches on everything from Chagos Islands to Brexit to Whoopi Goldberg to the Canada Convoys. The book is out now...

Emily Bennett & Justin Brooks are the writers and directors of the horror film Alone With You (in which Emily also stars). They talk about their love of horror, working as a duo, directing Emily, and working with scream legend Barbara Crampton. Richard Bates is the writer/director of the horror Satire King Knight starring Criminal Minds' Matthew Gray Gubler. Richard talks about why he wanted t...

Christian Convery is a child actor who stars in the Netflix series Sweet Tooth and has also appeared in Supernatural, Legion, Lucifer, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Pup Academy, Descendants 3 and Playing With Fire. He is the recipient of two Young Artists Awards and worked opposite Danica McKellar in the Hallmark film My Christmas Dream. He currently appears opposite Queen Latifah and Dennis Quaid in the...

Joe McLeod is a singer-songwriter from Ontario whose debut Album - Cloudberries in Alaska - drops on January 28th. Joe also talks about his love of film and musicals, working with The Elwins, his songwriting process, where he finds inspiration - especially in times of a pandemic, and what he enjoys about longer-form interviews. Subscribe: Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Pandora, Deezer, Substack Social: @...

Erick Lichte (pronounced 'Light") is the Artistic Director of Chor Leoni Men's Choir in Vancouver, BC, Canada. He talks about adapting to a pandemic, changing audiences, classical vs. chamber vs. contemporary music, finding and commissioning music for men's voices, the culture of male singing, why the holiday season brings great music, and much much more! Subscribe: Amazon, Apple, Spotify, Deezer,...

Macabit Abramson is a documentary filmmaker and PhD. student at Tel Aviv University. Woman Alive is her first narrative feature which was borne out of research for her thesis. It stars her daughter Lihi Zemel and a cast of non-professional actors in a cinema verite-kitchen sink realism morality tale that draws on the myths of Eros and Psyche. Subscribe: Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Deezer, Google, Pand...

Kaz Firpo is a filmmaker who recently wrote the script for Marvel's Eternals. In addition to his foray into the superhero world, he is an experimental filmmaker and director, whose new YouTube webseries Singals is a mixture of animation, documentary, narrative storytelling and computer generated imagery that tells the story of plastic - including an anthropomorphized bottle - and it's impact on th...

It's a three-for-one. In separate interviews director Gaurav Seth and deaf actress Sandra Mae Frank (joined by her interpreter) talk about their new film Multiverse. Then, Blackfoot and Sami actress Elle-Maija Tailfeathers on her role in the new indigenous horror film Night Raiders. Subscribe: Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, Deezer, Pandora Socials: @EndeavoursRadio

Marshall Pynkoski is a dancer and choreographer who is the founding Artistic Director of Toronto's Opera Atelier. Long interested in 17th and 18th dance, theatre and culture, Marshall has worked in many cities renowned for their history of classical music and performance including Paris, Milan and Salzburg. He has the TIME Magazine Award for classical music, and most recently was named a Chevalier...

James Cullen Bressack has done just about everything on a film set. He's acted, he's operated the camera, he's worked in sound, he's edited. He is however, most known as a director of high quality independent films, the latest of which - Survive The Game - stars Bruce Willis and Cha Michael Murray. It was released on October 8th. Miles Doleac got his start as an actor, appearing in such fare as Am...

What happens a filmmaker turns inward and examines the entire art form? Is filmmaking and the technology behind it inherently racist? That is concept behind Prism, an innovative new documentary from filmmakers An Van Dienderen, Rosine Mbakam and Eleanore Yameogo. Dienderen, who is white, and Mbakam and Yameogo who are black, examine how filmmaking technology, specifically of the photographic varie...

Séan McCann is a musician, author and mental health advocate. For 20 years, he was a member of the hit celtic-rock folk group Great Big Sea (which he co-founded). Since that group's disbandment, he has carved out a successful solo career. But for Séan, there was always a bigger life goal than album sales - sobriety. It has been seven years since his recovery journey started and he has released fou...

Dave Johns is a British comedian and actor best known for his starring role in Ken Loach's seminal film I, Daniel Blake. Since then he has appeared in Fishermen's Friends and its sequel as well as continued his comedy career, including new one-man shows at the Edinburgh Fringe. His latest film is 23 Walks, in which he co-stars with Alison Steadman. Subscribe: Apple, Spotify, Google, Amazon Music,...

William Yong is a dancer, choreographer, actor, producer, singer and director. After getting his start at music school in Hong Kong, he transferred to drama and dance in London. He has appeared in Kim's Convenience and is currently the livestream director for a dance piece at Fall For Dance North. The festival runs until October 29th, with William's number hitting the stage October 7th. Subscribe:...

TW: Trauma, PTSD. Frankie Faison is an actor who has worked with a who's who including Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Michael K. Williams and Anthony Hopkins in projects as varied as Coming To America, Silence of the Lambs, Down To Earth, The Wire, and Banshee. His newest film, in which he plays the title role is The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain, which is based on a true story. Frankie talks about th...

I'm turning 33. My old high school friend Gareth Allen-Symmons interviews me to ask me about my method (mostly madness), my process (complete madness), favourite guests, interview style (improvised madness), the good, the bad and ugly, and of course high school memories. We also talk about my upcoming Kickstarter campaign. Subscribe: Apple, Spotify, Google, Amazon Social @Endeavours Radio

Stuart Townsend is an actor known for his roles in Queen of the Damned, About Adam, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Chaos Theory, Aeon Flux and Battle in Seattle - his debut as writer and director. His stars as Jericho Ford in the new western Apache Junction, featuring last week's guest Scout Taylor-Compton. The film was released on September 24th. TW: Abuse. Marc de Guerre is a documentary...

TW: Emotional abuse Paul Kemp is a documentary filmmaker and former college track athlete. He has worked as a producer on such projects as Transformer, Going Native, The Rise of Jordan Peterson, and The Nature of Things. His latest film as director is Nike's Big Bet, which chronicles the scandal behind Alberto Salazar, arguably the world's most famous track coach, after numerous women came forward...

Scout Taylor-Compton is an actress, primarily known for her roles in the horror genre and a modern-day "scream queen". Acting since she was a child, she talks about the transition to adulthood, directing, and new her film Apache Junction. She also shares her favourites of working on Sleepover with previous Endeavours guest Mika Boorem. Jim Smith is the executive and artistic director of DanceHouse...

Shawn Leonard knows all too well the connection between his people, the land, and the Spirit World. Shawn is an aboriginal medium, of Miqmaq origin. He is also the star of the reality show Spirit Talker , season two of which premieres on September 14th. Not only does Shawn attempt to connect people to their departed loved ones, he travels around to different indigenous communities, learning their...

You've most likely seen Siobhan Fallon Hogan in something. After getting her start on SNL with a cast that included Ellen Cleghorne, Mike Myers, Adam Sandler, Kevin Nealon and Chris Farley, she followed up with appearances in Seinfeld and Forrest Gump, in which had the memorable role of Doris the bus driver. Other credits for Siobhan include Golden Girls, Men In Black, Holes, Law & Order: SVU,...

Endeavours is back and featuring two great film directors. Natasha Kermani is a horror-loving filmmaker who's new film Lucky originally premiered on Shudder back in March and is available on VOD, Digital HD and DVD on August 3rd. Tracey Deer is a Mohawk filmmaker known for her iconic TV Series "Mohawk Girls" - inspired by her documentary of the same name - and for season 3 of Anne With an E. She b...

Oskar Sveinsson is an Icelandic documentary filmmaker and former music producer and engineer. His new film Against The Current chronicles the journey of Veiga Grutarsdottir, who is attempting to become to the first person to kayak around Iceland in reverse. Parallel to that, the film examines Veiga's journey as a transgender woman, an aspect that is simply matter-of-fact rather than any grand stat...