The More the Merrier with donna g

My chat with director, Nang Ḵ’uulas Patrick Shannon , about his award-winning documentary ' Saints and Warriors ' screening November 26, 7pm at the Ted Rogers Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor Street West (at Bathurst). Q&A with director and special guests to follow. TICKETS : $15 www.hotdocs.ca ABOUT : Set against the sweeping backdrop of Haida Gwaii, the documentary explores two titles: th...

Two-time Dora Award Winner, Kanika Ambrose joins me again to talk about her second play running this month in Toronto, Moonlight Schooner. Then I'm joined by drag performer, Jade Elektra, who hosted my fundraiser 'Mingle with The More the Merrier'. I co-hosted the event and was very happy to have Sistah Lois our my special guest. Thank you John Allan for allowing me to use your recordi...

Two-time Dora Award winner (our place, Truth) Kanika Ambrose joins me to talk about her latest play, ' The Christmas Market.' DESCRIPTION : "Far from home, three Caribbean migrant workers carve out a sense of belonging in an unfamiliar—and often unforgiving—landscape...Razor-sharp, funny, and unflinching, The Christmas Market is a powerful exploration of community resilience and the ho...

Directors Min Sook Lee (There are no words) and Timothy Yeung (Finch & Midland) talk about their respective films screening at the 29th Reel Asian International Film Festival. The festival runs Nov 5 - 15 (in-cinema) and Nov 10 - 17th on-line. www.reelasian.com

Movie lovers Gordon G and Anne Gallagher and I chat about dinner if their highlights of #TIFF50 and share their respective feelings about how the Toronto International Film Festival celebrated its 50th year.

Catching up with Volker Bertelmann , Academy Award-winning composer (All Quiet on the Western Front) about scoring the new Edward Berger film, Ballad of a Small Player , starring Colin Farrell , Tilda Swinton and Fela Chen . Revisiting #TIFF2012 with an archival interview with Michael McGowan director, Still Mine , starring Academy Award Nominated actors, James Cromwell and Genevieve Bujold . Stil...

Resilience is the word that connects my two guests today, Leslie Ann Coles , the founder and executive and artistic director of The Female Eye Film Festival and filmmaker, J. Christian Hamilton , the host of CIUT's Dementia 13. Resilience is the theme emerged from the films programmed at FeFF this year and the word describes Christian who needs to forge ahead with her next film project, while...

Full show with an interview I conducted at the Toronto International Film Festival with Mexican director Karla Badillo about her gorgeous and thoughtful film ' Oca ,' centered on the female perspective of faith and self-determination. The film had its world premiere in the Discovery section of the festival. But up first, an interview with Jibola Fagbamiye and Conor McCreery about their col...

TALES OF THE DAMNED - Guests: Brandon White and Shannon Mills join me to talk about forming Whitemills Theatre Company and the challenges and delight of creating the immersive Gothic experience Tales of the Damned at the historic Campbell House Museum. Jade Elektra on Legacy Project – STILL HERE Screening (General Admission) CANFAR's first documentary short, Still Here – A Portrait of HIV &amp...

Join me as I reunite with Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated composer Dustin O'Halloran to discuss his creative process behind the score for Scarlett Johansson's feature film debut, Eleanor the Great , featuring Academy Award nominee June Squibb . Dustin and I first crossed paths at TIFF 2016, where we had an engaging conversation about the film LION , alongside Academy Award-w...

Tyler Mackenzie Evans joins me to discuss Sea Star , where he focuses on a grown Black Caribbean man overcoming his fear of swimming. Then, Kalainithan Kalaichelvan and I talk about Karupy , a Tamil Canadian film about a 65-year-old woman who has decided she's had enough of her family and life. Both films screen in separate sections of the Toronto International Film Festival's Short Cuts P...

Part 1 of #TIFF50 Coverage Guests: Tanya Talaga (Ni-Naadamaadiz Red Power Rising) and Lucía Aleñar Iglesias (Forastera)

Lisa Haller , Interim Executive Director / Director of Programming for the Atlantic International Film Festival (AIFF) joins me to talk about the New Waves and Shorts Programme sections of the festival. Held in Halifax, the AIFF runs from September 10 - 17, 2025 , and showcases a diversity of international and domestic films while proudly holding space for films and filmmakers from Atlantic Canada...

The focus of today's show is film. I'll be welcoming dancer, actor, and producer Brennan Clost to my show for the very first time. You might know him from the shows The Next Step and Tiny Pretty Things , but we're going to get into his transition from dancer to his other roles as a movie actor in The Legacy of Cloudy Falls , available now on VOD, and the August 29th Canada-wide theatri...

David and Sydney Dacks are chat about 'Radio Active Community' part of the Intersection Festival . The performance takes place on August 30 at 8 PM at Sankofa Square, with the talk happening on August 31 at 3 PM at 918 Bathurst. For more information, please visit https://intersectionfestival.org David Dacks is a Toronto-based advocate of creative music in all its forms. He is currently Exe...

Revisiting Favourites from TIFF 2019 with frequent guest, Heidy M , and Daniel Garber of CIUT's Critic's Circle and Cultural Mining .

Director, Dr Jules Arita Koostachin joins me to talk about her latest film ' Angela's Shadow' screening at the Carlton Cinema for one week only, beginning July 25. Then "pan man" Alvin Rostant joins me to talk about learning the steel pan back in Trinidad when he was 14 years old, his travels around the globe playing pan, writing his book " Carnival is Me " (also a song...

The hilarious, Jennie Bovard joins me to chat about starting in AMI+ tv 's 'Pretty Blind' Canada's first TV show about a blind woman with albinism. Then an archival interview (TIFF 2023) featuring filmmakers Suvi West and Anssi Kömi talking about the repatriation of Sami cultural artifacts from museums back to their original Sami locations in their doc, 'HOMECOMING.' Suvi i...

Frequent collaborator, Heidy M joins me for a discussion of the film ' 40 Acres' by R. T. Thorne , starring Danielle Deadwyler and Michael Greyeyes as a couple trying to hold their land and protect their children from cannibalistic outliers in a post-apocalyptic future. Were my expectations too high? Why, when I enjoyed the film, did I expect more from a Black writer/director because he ma...

They want YOU! These 8 productions tell you why you should go and see their shows at this year's Toronto Fringe Festival. The Fringe is Ontario's largest performance festival with over 100 shows at various venues across the city. My guests today pitch the following shows: alpha , Edgar and the red room , playground , plan v , people suck , pornstar(I) , terrible fish , and you me and the h...

Heidy M , creator of hyemusings.ca and frequent collaborator on tmtm joins me to chat about ' 28 Years Later ' and ' Ballerina .' Heidy is an Arts and Culture writer, a programmer at genre festival Blood in the Snow and a Rotten Tomatoes arrived critic. A New Zealander in Denmark? Director Peter Borgman about his film ' RESIN ' which screened at the 2019 Toronto Internation...

Archival Episode: Revisiting TIFF 2019 Guests : Actor, Ricardo Darín ('Herioc Losers', Argentina), Director, Zaidah Bergroth ('Maria's Paradise', Finland) and Director, Grímur Hákonarson ('The County', Iceland) Out of the archives! These interviews originally aired in 2019 when my show was broadcast in the Tuesday overnight spot from 1-2 am. I've added new music by...

Christine McLean is a documentarian, broadcaster and academic based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This is her third episode for CBC's The Nature of Things . Entitled ' Dad Bods' , it explores new research into the impact of fatherhood on male physiology. Description : " Scientists have since learned that the more a father is involved, the lower his T levels are. They’ve discovered dads,...

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Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival 2025 coverage with Colette Johnson-Vosberg about her film ' Unlabelled .' The film explores the diverse stories of three trans people with some surprising revelations. Hot Docs and Inside Out Films festivals overlap with my interview with director, Noam Gonick and producer, Justine Pimlott about their NFB film ' Parade: Queer Acts of Love and Resistanc...