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Christian Zyp of MOVING RADIO interviews  Wojciech Lorenc (director/cinematographer/editor) and Valentina Trevino (executive producer) about their documentary FEARLESS. It screened as part of The Calgary Underground Film Festival 2021.  An intimate portrait of a boxing gym in a small town of Conroe, Texas. The film is constructed as an allegory for the challenges faced by people of color and immig...

Christian Zyp interviews Jesse Blanchard, the director, of the feature film "Frank & Zed". It screened as part of The Calgary Underground Film Festival 2021. In the film, two reanimated corpses, dependent on each other for survival, live a life of solitude until a power-hungry magistrate tricks a group of villagers into attacking their lonely castle, fulfilling an ancient prophecy: The Orgy of...

MOVING RADIO correspondent Lindsey Campbell interviewed Amelia Moses (director) about her feature film BLOODTHIRSTY. It originally streamed as part of The Calgary Underground Film Festival 2020. In the feature film BLOODTHIRSTY, indie singer-songwriter Grey Kessler suffers anxiety over having released a successful album and feels pressure for a successful follow-up. She also takes medication to tr...

Christian Zyp of "Moving Radio" interviews Anthony Scott Burns (director/writer/composer) about his feature film "Come True". Shot in Edmonton, you can see the film on most VOD platforms OR find physical copies at RavenBannerReleasing.com The film stars Julia Sarah Stone and Landon Liboiron. The plot follows a teenage runaway who takes part in a sleep study that becomes a nightmarish descent into...

Christian Zyp of MOVING RADIO interviews w/ Villiam Chahal (dir), Catherine Mondragon (prod) & Kimberly Philpott (actor) about their short film CRISALIDA.  In the spirit of Ibsen’s "A Doll’s House", this short film explores the emotional and physical circles a woman creates to avoid a volatile relationship.  The narrative hovers between past and present, as the woman moves away from the extern...

Christian Zyp of MOVING RADIO interviewed Robert Cuffley (director/composer) and Susie Moloney (writer) about their film "Bright Hill Road". You can find it on most VOD streaming services. SYNOPSIS: When a misstep after a workplace shooting puts alcoholic Marcy on leave, she heads out to see her sister in California. Halfway there, she stops for a few days at the Bright Hill Road Boarding House. T...

Christian Zyp of MOVING RADIO interviews Guy Lavalee (director/writer) and Tammy Lavalee (subject) about their documentary FAMILY EVER AFTER. You can find it streaming on CBC Gem. An Alberta couple gets more than they bargained for when their attempt to adopt a child through the foster system results in a transformative path to parenthood they never could have imagined. gem.cbc.ca/media/absolutely...

Christian Zyp of MOVING RADIO interviews Elle–Máijá Tailfeathers. Her documentary "Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy" opens at The Metro Cinema Friday November 19th, 2021. Her film witnesses radical and profound change in her community. Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy is an intimate portrait of survival, love and the collective work of healing in the Kainai First Nation in Sout...

Christian Zyp of MOVING RADIO interview Jeff Erbach (writer/director) about his THE NATURE OF NICHOLAS. It screens at The Metro Cinema Sunday October 17th @ 9:30 pm.  PLOT... Set in a vaguely late-’50s/early-’60s rural milieu, story centers on the awkward pubescence of sixth grader Nicholas (Jeff Sutton), whose pilot father died in a crash some time before. That event left a huge gap in the lives...

AWA ISKWÊW KÂ-ÂPIHKÊW (THE SASH MAKER) - DIrectors Rebecca Sadowski (Métis) and Tamarra Lessard collaborate on a Métis film with contemporary dance, Cree and English translated poetry, and traditional finger- weaving. The Sash Maker promotes the healing of long- standing cultural wounds. The work communicates a collective yearning for family, understanding, and peace. By reflecting on our past, to...

Jarret Kamm interviews Courtney Montour (director) about her documentary short film MARY TWO-AXE EARLY: I AM INDIAN AGAIN. The film is focused on the powerful story of Mary Two-Axe Earley, who fought for over two decades to challenge the discrimination against Indigenous women embedded in Canada’s Indian Act and became a key figure in Canada’s women’s rights movement. You can see it in person Sun,...

Christian Zyp interviews TJ Parsell (dir) about his documentary INVISIBLE. It screens as part of The Edmonton International Film Festival in person Fri Oct 8th 6:30 pm & Sat Oct 9th @ 2 :30 at Landmark City Center Cinemas. You can also stream it from Oct 1st - Oct 10 by going to edmontonfilmfest.com INVISIBLE - Growing up gay in the South is hard enough, but to be an openly gay woman in countr...

Christian Zyp interviews Christopher Donaldson (dir/writer) about his film DITCHED. See it Sun, Oct 3rd, 8:30 PM and Mon, Oct 4th, 4:00 PM @ Landmark Cinemas 9 City Centre. In the film, after a routine prison transfer crashes in the forest, young Inuit paramedic Melina finds herself surrounded by murderers with a mere 100 feet to climb out of a ditch to escape. When they are attacked by an unseen...

Christian Zyp interviews Justin S. Monroe (director/producer/writer) and Tim Carey (subject/artist) about the documentary HOLY FRIT . It's playing as part of The Edmonton International Film Festival on Sat Oct 9th at 6:30 pm and an encore screening happens Sun Oct 10 @ 1 :30 pm at Landmark Cinemas 9 City Center Cinemas. Tim Carey is a talented, yet unknown Los Angeles-based artist. He is also a bi...

MOVING RADIO host Christian Zyp speaks with Mattie Cuvilier about the VHS & Pop Culture Expo. Check it out on September 11, 2021 at BlakBar Tavern (10726 Whyte Ave)from 3 - 7 pm.

MOVING RADIO host Christian Zyp interviews Trevor Mack about his film "Portraits From a Fire". It screens as part of The Edmonton International Film Festival and will be the Opening Night film. Catch it Fri, Oct 1st, 6:30 PM and Mon, Oct 4th, 2:30 PM at The Landmark Cinemas 9 City Centre. It's a coming-of-age film that follows Tyler, an eccentric and lonely teenager who spends his days filmmaking,...

Christian Zyp speaks with Director/Screenwriter Daniel Roby about his latest film "Target Number One". Inspired by real events that took place in 1989, "Target Number One" follows three interconnected stories: an ex-heroin junkie who gets trapped by a criminal organization to set up a drug deal in Thailand; an undercover cop who’s humiliated and decides to take a short cut to enhance the performan...

Each holiday season Moving Radio host Christian Zyp challenges correspondent Mark Davies with watching a questionable film based around the season. On Nov 17th, 1978 CBS to milk North America's fascination with A New Hope. This special has it all: Bea Arthur... I feel like that's all I need to say even though there's much much more. Viva la Life Day!

Moving Radio contributor Lindsey Campbell watches movies for a living. Sometimes she sees film that makes her think, "Thanks Telefilm..." In this edition, Lindsey discusses the film "SuperGrid" with Darcy Twarog. SuperGrid is a 2018 Canadian post-apocalyptic directed by Lowell Dean, who previously directed horror-comedies WolfCop and Another   WolfCop.  In a future where a plague has infected much...

THE KILLING OF PHILLIP BOURDEAU is the story of a death that tore apart the Nova Scotia community of Isle Madame, a postcard-perfect collection of Acadian fishing villages off the coast of Cape Breton Island. Phillip Boudreau, a local man known for poaching lobsters, was killed by fishermen in a crime the media dubbed “murder for lobster,” which made international headlines seven years ago. But as...

Christian Zyp interviews documentary director/writer Anthony Goertz about the film THE LINE. The critical work of reducing Edmontonians’ ecological footprint is done by some of the most marginalized members of our community. At the world-renowned Edmonton Waste Management Centre, a company called Quality One hires people with barriers to employment: criminal records, addictions, newcomer status, a...

Moving Radio correspondents Lindsey Blais and Mark Davies took over the show the show on CJSR FM 88.5 this month. They team up for an edition of "Thanks Telefilm" where Lindsey examines some of her favorite nationally funded films... The good, the bad and the ugly. Their focus is on 2017's DARKEN.

Moving Radio correspondent Lindsey Campbell had a conversation with Lex McNaughton about how film festivals are being forced to be creative with the inability to screen in public theatres. Lex McNaughton is the Career and Film Festival Manager at Loyola Marymount University’s School of Film and Television.

Interviews with Master of Horror Stuart Gordon about the 30th anniversary of his debut film “Re-Animator” and the filmmakers behind “Bind”, Dan Zachary and Dan Walton.

This aired June 19th, 2015. It’s an interview with writer/director Kyle Thomas (from Calgary) about his feature film debut “The Valley Below”.