Push In - The CineVic Podcast

A traumatic work injury would stop most of us, but that’s what it took to steer Chris Vautour from her beloved 25-year career as a location scout and manager towards her original goal of becoming a filmmaker. With refreshing candor, the self-proclaimed “gatherer of certificates” describes how she got her start in film, why the PA role is so important, her “Year of Trying Things,” and how she shift...

In today’s info-packed episode, Push In interviews veteran film industry location scout and manager Chris Vautour.  With astounding clarity, Chris concisely sums up the most important things to know when location scouting. If you want tips on scoring that perfect location, this is an episode not to be missed!  Listen up as Chris tells host Joyce Kline:  ·      Who makes a good locations person? · ...

Curious about the brave new world of interactive documentaries?  Experimental filmmaker Morgan Rhys Tams’ “elevated cinema” goes where few have gone before.   From a community-based animation with 120 collaborators, to an animated site-specific installation of strategically placed QR codes on aluminum plates, Morgan’s oeuvre stretches the limits of what a documentary can be.  Morgan has created ev...

When BC documentary filmmaker Morgan Rhys Tams was 31 years old, he wrote a short letter to the absentee father he’d never known. This led to his decision to drive 5000 kilometers to the opposite coast of Canada so the two could meet for the first time. Dear Mr. Dudley: Morgan’s unconventional latest short film, chronicles this real-life road trip that crossed not only a continent and decades of l...

You’ve spent a ton of time perfecting your elevator pitch, but have you considered the importance of how your present yourself ? If you want that extra leg up, you won’t want to miss this interview with filmmaker, musician, and personal, wardrobe and costume stylist Michael “Oz” Osbourne! Oz has composed, performed and produced music for 20 years and toured internationally with his wife, singer Sk...

“You should make a movie about that!” Whether you’ve just regaled someone with a juicy anecdote, or they’ve buttonholed you at a party with one of theirs, if you’re a filmmaker you’ve undoubtedly heard this. Before you’re tempted to act on that impulse, you’d be well advised to listen to novelist and screenwriter Claire Mulligan explain the difference between a story and “something that just happe...

‘Tis the season for butter, sugar, sentiment and...Hallmark holiday movies!   Host Joyce Kline asked award-winning actor, producer and casting director Darlene Tait to take us behind the scenes of Hallmark’s upcoming Five More Minutes: Moments Like These premiering in Canada, December 18th on the W Network. In this frank interview Darlene tells Joyce:  ·      What it was like to step on set Day On...

On today's episode, host Joyce Kline interviews filmmaker, podcast producer, animator and CineVic’s own Vice President, Grady Lawlor. We all know filmmaking can be a pricey hobby. So why pay to put together a production when you can get the cast to bring you onboard? Grady turned his love of filmmaking into a life of adventure and heart with wedding films. And if you watch closely enough, eve...

Who better to interview for Halloween than multiple award-winning actor/writer/director Octavian Kaul? Victoria's wunderkind fright master talks nightmares and biggest fear with host Joyce Kline...and why he’s virtually possessed (apologies for the pun) by the horror genre. ·Joyce surprises Octavian with something she’s found online. ·Octavian breaks down when it's the sound and when it&...

If you think it’s too late to start a filmmaking career after you retire you need to think again! Listen in as up and coming filmmaker Suzanne Moreau details how she made the leap from civil servant to recognized writer/director. Suzanne tells host Joyce Kline how Cinevic Society of Independent Filmmakers gave her a start, what it’s like to move forward in a new direction “when you don’t even know...

Host Joyce Kline catches documentary filmmaker Krista Loughton in the midst of Krista’s campaign for city councillor in the upcoming Victoria BC municipal election. Krista describes a harrowing incident in Vancouver’s notorious Downtown East Side that inspired her 20 year career fighting homelessness and addiction through filmmaking. Krista is widely known for the empathic documentary Us and Them...

Were the perpetrators of Nazi death camps evil psychopaths, sadistic, radicalized extremists or just ordinary, everyday men?  That’s the question Israeli writer/director Ye’ela Rosenfeld set out to investigate in her riveting short film Hedgehog, one of the most thought-provoking films in Short Circuit Pacific Rim Film Festival’s 2022 line up. Listen in as host Joyce Kline finds out why this quest...

In the wake of his father’s death, a young boy is forced to deal with, and ultimately respect, his mixed family’s Muslim and Christian mourning practices in Lebanese/Canadian filmmaker Jay Kamal’s touching short film Baba .   Baba swept up three awards in CineVic’s 2022 Short Circuit Pacific Rim Film Festival, winning Outstanding Direction, Cinematography, and Performance awards — so, of course, p...

On today's episode, host Joyce Kline interviews Comox Valley’s Stephanie Rossel.   Drawing from her 34 years of experience as script supervisor on top film and TV productions like Juno , Tully and When We Rise , Stephanie is at the helm of her latest short, Baby Steps . Lean on budget, equipment and doing “all of the production design, ADing, everything” with minimal crew, how did Stephanie p...

What do Evil Dead , King Kong , Power of the Dog and the CineVic Short Circuit Pacific Rim Film Festival have in common?   Allow us to introduce Maori filmmaker Nicholas Riini (Ngai Tuhoe) of Aotearoa (New Zealand).  Connecting with the elemental world of his ancestors, Nicholas’ film A Morning With Aroha combines  creativity and imagination for a show not to be missed. How did Nicholas put his 20...

When Graham takes his new step-son Emil on a camping trip, he hopes they will finally bond through the traditions and lessons he learned from his own father. However, the scars of the recent death of Emil’s father hang heavy over the pair and Emil resists Graham’s attempts to get closer to him… Reads the logline of Ann Marie Hak’s 2020 CineSpark competition winning pitch for her script Wishing Fal...

A young woman falls in love with a waitress in a greasy-yet-nostalgic Hong Kong-style cafe, but a language gap divides the two - or is there something more? Animator and filmmaker Alayna Y goes back to her roots through food with the appetizing short animated film, Macaroni Soup . An artist specializing in making soup - she throws people, experiences, and inspirations into a simmering pot. Whether...

On this episode, host Joyce Kline catches up with director, writer, actor, past CineVic president and overall man-about-set, Trent Peek. Trent recalls going from “not ready at all” to being chosen to direct Sarah Nicole Faucher’s CineSpark winning production, Going Home . This film tells the story of a young deaf woman trying to work in the film industry. Being not many of these things, Trent shar...

With more than a decade of experience working in the Eastern European film industry, we’re lucky to have director/producer/writer Lukas Hanulak now call Vancouver Island home. Enjoying festival success with his short film, The Father (2009), Lukas rose in the ranks to direct a dramatic TV series,  for major broadcasters in Czech Republic and Slovakia. No stranger to documentary work as well, Lukas...

Atmospheric rivers, mudslides, and washed-out roads frame the latest episode of Push In, The CineVic Podcast . Host Joyce Kline invites filmmaker and photography manager for the 2022 Beijing Olympics , Arnold Lim to share how he and his team made it through a shoot day against all odds. What do you do when your route to set just got washed away by a mudslide and your lead actors can’t make it to s...

You know the saying “two is company and three’s a crowd”?  Joyce Kline sure does and it’s one of the reasons she felt inspired to bring her film to life.  No stranger to the Victoria film scene, she's moonlighted in many roles including visual artist, writer, playwright, teacher and production designer. Now as a Production Designer and familiar voice behind this very podcast, we flip the scri...

Need a task completed? Give it to the busiest person you know. Want to make sure a feature film is created? Give it to Mia Golden. Mia’s first feature, Fragile Seeds , is a way to share what she’s passionate about in her day job. Heading off youth exploitation and human trafficking , she makes an impact daily as a youth and family counsellor. At a certain point it became clear that film was the ri...

Welcome to the first episode of Season 2 for Push In, The CineVic Podcast ! We’re starting off with award-winning producer, actor, former board member of Vancouver Women In Film & Television, Vice President of Vancouver Island South Film & Media Commission, Host of Film Fridays AND Past President of CineVic, Darlene Tait. Find out the 3 most important things a director should be looking fo...

Ever hear the one about the geologist who wanted the rocks to talk back? Join host Joyce Kline in a chat with Telefilm Canada Talent to Watch director Jason Karman. Following up from his Incubators 2.0 workshop with CineVic, Jason touches on the importance of having ’unique selling proposition’ as a filmmaker. But what was it that really drew Jason to filmmaking and how does it shape his work goin...

We just couldn’t stop chatting with Meeshelle Neal and are back with… Part 2 of our interview this multi-talented screenwriter-director-actor-novelist. Ever feel stuck on a round story idea not fitting into a square hole? Host Joyce Kline explores Meesh’s approach to the creative process. Find out how Meesh takes an idea that’s not quite hitting the mark and flips it into something so much better....