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Carl Bessai is a Canadian filmmaker, renowned for working in both narrative and experimental formats. As part of Endeavours coverage of the 2020 Whistler Film Festival , Carl talks about his new film In Her City, a series of 17 vignettes about millennial women living in major North American cities. Carl talks about structure, improvisation, and the changing nature of the film industry as well as d...

Alex Winter is perhaps best for his roles as Bill in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, as well as Marko in The Lost Boys. In the last two decades, he has turned to directing, starting with the cult hit Freaked, as well as Smosh: The Movie. He has made documentaries on Napster, bitcoin, child stars and The Panama Papers. His latest is Zappa, about the eponymous legendary singer. It is out now....

Dana Nachman is an Emmy and Edward R. Murrow-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker. After working in television and creating films about politics, she has moved into more family friendly territory with her last two features Batkid Begins and Pick of the Litter. She continues that trend with her latest doc - Letters to Santa - which looks at how the United States Postal Service works with el...

Joel Bakan is an academic, university law professor, jazz musician, and filmmaker. In 2003, he co-wrote the documentary film The Corporation, which won over 25 awards internationally. 17 years later, he has written and co-directed a sequel The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel. Joel talks about the controversial ruling that allowed corporations to be treated as people, minimum wa...

Graham Kolbeins is a filmmaker. Anne Ishii is a writer, translator and producer. Together, they have collaborated on several projects including: The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame: Master of Gay Erotic Manga, Massive: Gay Japanese Manga and the Men Who Make It, and the new feature-length documentary Queer Japan. Subscribe to Endeavours wherever podcasts are sold Social @EndeavoursRadio www.endeavoursm...

Heart Attack Kids are the new kids on the block in the Canadian punk scene, having their 2nd album produced by Liam Cormier of the Cancer Bats. Frontman Jared Ellul talks the band's new single Can't Stop , personnel changes, their virtual Halloween party and their upcoming 3rd album. 20 years ago, the song One Voice captured audiences everywhere with its powerful message about suicide rate. Now, m...

Tania Cypriano is a documentary filmmaker who has worked in both the United States and her native Brazil for over 30 years. Her collaborators have included Martin Scorsese, Bill Moyers, and Charlayne Hunter-Gault. Much of her work has focused on medicine and medical issues (including films on AIDS and Breastmilk). Her latest is Born To Be, which follows pioneering plastic surgeon Dr. Jess Ting, as...

At only 20 years old, actress Sophie Nelisse has been on the Canadian film scene for ten years. Having co-starred with such luminaries as Geoffrey Rush, Tobey Maguire, Kathy Bates and Derek Jacobi, she has received both a Canadian Screen Award and a Prix Iris for her work in Monsieur Lazhar. She can be seen opposite former heartthrob Adam Brody in The Kid Detective. Juno and Polaris-nominated duo...

The Sex Pistols. Ramones. The Clash. Black Flag. If you grew up in the 70s and were of a rebellious nature, chances are you listened to these pioneering punk bands. The Ramones invented modern American punk music while the Clash and Sex Pistols took care of matters across the pond.  But Canada also had its punk pioneers. Teenage Head. Born out of Hamilton, Ontario, this group of rebellious ra...

Just in time for the end of Quarantine Halloween, re-running some classic horror-themed interviews from 2017. Dr. Bob Curran is perhaps the world's most renowned folklorist and expert on the macabre having written books on everything from vampires to werewolves to the undead. He lives in the mountains of Northern Ireland. Also, actress Ashley C. Williams talks about appearing in the iconic cult ho...

Angela Chen is a science journalist and editor who has written for The Verge and Wall Street Journal as well as numerous other publications, and whose first book is Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex. Considered, on of the first books about the asexuality and the lack of sexual attraction, Angela talks about her own journey, the slowly increasing exposure of...

Swedish dance pop group Army of Lovers was as big as Abba. Then they split, then they reunited. Twice. Then leader Jean-Pierre Barda relocated to Tel Aviv, Israel. Asaf Galay's new documentary Army of Lovers in the Holy Land explores this and more and examines the intersection of being a gay Jew. Barda also talks how the pandemic influenced his choice to be with his mother in Stockholm and offers...

Andrew Nisker is a documentary filmmaker whose new film is Coral Ghosts ; it follows biologist and coral scientist Thomas Goreau as he examines the impact that climate change has had on coral reefs around the world in places such as Australia, Jamaica, and the Marshall Islands. The film recently played at the Planet in Focus Film Festival in Toronto. Subscribe to Endeavours on Apple, Spotify, Goog...

Richard J. Gasparian is a longtime animator for The Simpsons and has worked on other shows including Family Guy, Central Park, She-Ra and The Princess of Power, Recess and Clerks. Before he got into cartoons however, he was an aspiring actor and filmmaker. In 1986 he wrote and starred in the B movie film Housesitter.... The Night They Saved Siegfried's Brain. 34 years later, it is finally seeing t...

Lane & Ruckus Skye are a husband-and-wife filmmaking team who co-wrote the hit horror film Becky , which was released earlier this year. They already have another picture, written and filmed before Becky in 2017. It is called The Devil To Pay, and this time the pair also play directors as well. The Devil To Pay is out now.  Subscribe to Endeavours on Apple, Spotify, Google, Overcast, Brea...

Michelle Latimer is an award-winning actress & filmmaker whose on-screen credits include the hit TV show Paradise Falls and is known behind-the-lens for Inconvenient Indian, Rise and Alias. She is the creator of the new CBC Gem series Trickster, which premiered October 7th and is based on the novel Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson. Lara Gallagher is a writer-director who also worked as a se...

Chin Injeti is a Grammy and Juno-winning songwriter, musician, and producer, whose new single " Falling "   features Esthero and Tarun Nayyur. It can be found on youtube. Carmela Zumbado is an actress who most recently appeared on the 2nd season of the hit TV Series "You". She co-stars in the new film "The Wall of Mexico" opposite Esai Morales, Jackson Rathbone, Xander Berkeley and Mariel Hem...

TW: Police brutality, racism, In 2013, new Canadian immigrant Godfred Addai was assaulted by police while his van was stuck in the snow. Although he was unarmed, police claimed that a gesture he made while already on the ground was enough to charge him with threatening a peace officer. Godfred ultimately won his case and is now an activist speaking out against police brutality. He is the subject o...

Barry Stevens is a Toronto-based filmmaker, screenwriter and former actor. He is also, in his words created "by science and not by sex". He is the child of sperm donor. Not just any donor however, but Dr. Bertold Weisner, a physician who ran a fertility clinic between 1943 and 1962 and is alleged to fathered 1000 children via sperm donation. So far, Barry has met roughly 100 siblings. He documents...

It's festival season. How are performers and programmers coping with going digital. Joshua Beamish is a dancer and choreographer performing in this year's Fall For Dance North , a dance and movement festival headquartered out of Toronto. The Festival runs September 29-October 18. Rylan Friday is an indigenous filmmaker who runs the Catalyst Mentorship Program at the Vancouver International Film Fe...

April is a filmmaker whose previous documentaries have included Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie and its spiritual sequel Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace as well as the narrative film Layover. In her last documentary, she unpacks the history of female stunt performers, including legends Jeannie Epper and Julie Ann Johnson in Stuntwo...

Redneck. It's a loaded word, with various connotations. Depending where one is from. In the new documentary Red, White & Wasted, filmmakers Andrei Bowden Schwartz and Sam Jones examine the politics of mudding in the southern US, particularly Florida. What is mudding? Are all rednecks conservative republicans? Can we make fun of that culture? Oh yeah, Sam and Andrei explain how they ended up at...

Doctor Who. Perhaps no show defines British culture more so than the time-travelling alien. 14 Actors have played incarnations of the doctor since 1963. Sylvester McCoy played the seventh doctor and was the last actor to portray him in the original run of the series. He also chats about working with Maisie Williams, Ian McKellen, his time on the Hobbit, being entranced by the Wachowski sisters and...

Agnes Bruckner has been in several horror films and many of your favourite TV shows. She has also portrayed both Anna Nicole Smith and Kris Jenner. She stars in the new horror/thriller anthology Immortal.  Austin Tufts is the drummer for the Montreal-based indie rock band BRAIDS. Their new album Shadow Offering was released in June. Subscribe to Endeavours on Apple, Spotify, Google, Overcast...

RJ City is a professional wrestler, internet personality and budding stand-up comedian who appears in the new documentary You Cannot Kill David Arquette , for which he is also a consulting producer. He talks the future of wrestling, the similarities with comedy, and why David Arquette's controversial Heavyweight Championship was not his (David's) fault. Also, he confesses his love for Fred Penner...