The YVR Screen Scene Podcast

Carmen Moore’s filmography is filled with complex characters wrestling with big emotions – characters like Simone on Godiva’s , Loreen on Arctic Air , and Leona Stoney on Blackstone . In the last decade, the industry seems to have woken up to Carmen’s immense talent: she’s received three Leo Awards for Best Lead Performance in a Dramatic Series for Blackstone , the 2013 Lorena Gale Woman of Distin...

Jacqueline Samuda has a Leo Award, two cats, a fan following for her work as the ruthless Goa'uld System Lord Nirrti on Stargate SG-1 , and lots of stories to tell about all of the above. In this fascinating conversation with Sabrina Furminger, Jacqueline talks sci-fi, orphan kittens, her most memorable moment from her Stargate-SG1 days, fan conventions, and how much fun it is to play the bad guy....

Is the Vancouver film and TV industry racist? How can we dismantle anti-Black racism in the industry while servicing US shows that practice tokenism? What are micro-aggressions, and how and when do Black film workers experience micro-aggressions? Those are some of the questions covered in Amplifying Black Voices, a panel discussion organized by the Vancouver Asian Film Festival that took place onl...

Actress-filmmaker Gigi Saul Guerrero ( Culture Shock ) talks about upheaval in the horror scene and why she had to leave Vancouver to direct her first feature. Episode sponsor: Fish Flight Entertainment

Three documentarians with films screening as part of the 2020 DOXA Documentary Film Festival (which has moved online due to the pandemic) speak with Sabrina Furminger about their fearless fact-based work. Finding Sally director Tamara Dawit discusses her journey to learn everything she could about the activist aunt who went missing more than 40 years ago during Ethiopia’s Red Terror; Greg Crompton...

Catherine Lough Haggquist is an award-winning actress, a producer, and an entrepreneur. She founded Biz Books in 1996, and she has more than 140 acting credits to her name, including Continuum , Supernatural , Chesapeake Shores , The Good Doctor , Aurora Teagarden Mysteries , numerous Christmas movies, and, most recently, Freeform’s Motherland: Fort Salem . Motherland: Fort Salem imagines a world...

Nicole Leier is an actor, a producer, a director, and an activist. She’s African Canadian, she’s currently in LA, and she’s been nominated for two Leo Awards for acting: one in 2017 for Black Chicks – which was written and directed by Neil LaBute and explores race and racism in cishet relationships – and another this year for A Score to Settle , in which she acted opposite Nicolas Cage. Over the l...

Lee Shorten is an actor and a filmmaker who brings a unique perspective to both of those roles. As an actor, Lee digs for nuance and authenticity. We saw it in The Man in the High Castle. We saw it in The Terror: Infamy. And we saw it in It’s Not You. It’s Not Me, a short film about sexuality. As a filmmaker, Lee is sensitive and fearless. He wrote and directed Parabola, a moving short starring Hi...

Aubrey Arnason is a director, an actor, a television host, a writer, and a hard-working prairie girl who grew up in a hockey family. In 2017, Aubrey was named one of Canada's Top 3 emerging female directors by Women In View; more recently, she directed an episode of the Emmy-nominated series Dino Dana . She has been nominated for an astounding 12 Leo Awards, and won one for Best Host for The Weddi...

Pow! Crash! Boom! Lauro Chartrand-DelValle is a stunt performer, stunt actor, stunt coordinator, stunt double, stunt consultant, stunt motorcyclist, director, producer, writer – seriously, what doesn’t this guy do? According to IMDB, Lauro has upwards of 400 credits: more than anyone who has ever sat in our studio. He’s won seven Leo Awards, as well as the John Juliani Award for Excellence from UB...