Producer and showrunner Joseph Mallozzi ( Stargate SG-1 , Stargate Atlantis , Stargate Universe , Dark Matter , Utopia Falls ) joins Sabrina Furminger for a rollicking and informative interview covering a wide range of topics, including: the legacy and future of Stargate (and the meaning behind “Five Chevrons Locked”); what he learns about storytelling and fandom from hanging out in Reddit forums; his obsession with junk food; the inner lives of showrunners (and what really goes on in a writers’...
Sep 22, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 4Ep. 24
Giles Panton is Iron Man. No really! The busy voice actor can currently be heard voicing Iron Man in Marvel Battleworld: Mystery of the Thanostones . He also voiced Tarzan in Tarzan and Jane , and Clay Moorington in Nexo Knights , and can be heard in Max Steel , Last Kids on Earth , and the iconic My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic . Outside of the voice booth, Giles played Billy Turner, the Minister of Propaganda for the American Reich, in Amazon Prime’s critically acclaimed dystopian series T...
Sep 18, 2020•1 hr 29 min•Season 4Ep. 23
Philip Granger is an actor, producer, and educator based in Vancouver. His IMDb filmography goes on for miles, and includes Walt in Neon Rider , Coach Kolaski in Madison , Supernatural , Caprica , Rogue , and Winston in the highly underrated and gone-too-soon Ghost Wars . He won a Gemini Award for his performance in Neon Rider and a 2019 Leo Award for his work opposite Richard Harmon in Jon Silverberg’s Woodland . In this deeply moving episode, Philip recalls memorable moments from his lengthy c...
Sep 15, 2020•1 hr 22 min•Season 4Ep. 22
Inimitable actress Marci T. House talks about her upcoming role in Julie and The Phantoms , #covidlife, stage acting vs. screen acting vs. architecture, the many ways in which CBC’s Strange Empir e was ahead of its time, and why she stays in Vancouver. Episode sponsor: UBCP/ACTRA
Sep 10, 2020•1 hr 40 min•Season 4Ep. 21
Beloved Vancouver actress Lynda Boyd ( Republic of Doyle ; Tin Star ) talks plastic surgery, tattoos, mental health in the age of COVID-19, navigating an industry that doesn’t always value a woman’s worth, acting opposite Victor Garber, Sara Canning, and Diane Keaton, and what Allan Hawco really thought of her attempt at a Newfoundland accent. Also: singing and lasagna! Episode sponsor: UBCP/ACTRA
Sep 05, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Season 4Ep. 20
Stephen Lobo’s filmography is populated by characters who, despite being wildly different from each other, are nearly identical in how hard they fight for what they want: earnest Dev on Arctic Air ; take-no-prisoners Kellog on Continuum ; womanizing head chef Ramir on Godiva’s . It’s something that Stephen himself has exemplified since his very first time on stage in a community theatre production of Grease (that also featured future podcast host Sabrina Furminger and future Broadway star Ramin ...
Sep 01, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Season 4Ep. 19
Actor Richard Harmon ( The 100 ) and filmmaker Jon Silverberg swing by the YVR Screen Scene Podcast to pull back the curtain on Woodland , an atmospheric and terrifying thriller about a down and out photographer named Jake (played by Richard) who is haunted by bad decisions and takes a job at a winter lodge up in a secluded part of Haida Gwaii. Jake’s employer is Sparky, a kind-hearted roughneck played by the inimitable Philip Granger. Despite the distance between Haida Gwaii and Jake’s previous...
Aug 21, 2020•43 min•Season 4Ep. 18
Lexa Doig is known around the world for playing ass-kicking characters on beloved genre shows. She played the Andromeda Ascendent on Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda , an android and warship who didn’t like running from a fight, and was Sonya Valentine on Continuum , one of the Liber8 future terrorists. She appeared on Arrow as former member of the League of Assassins Talia al Ghul, and stole her share of scenes in The Arrangement and Virgin River . She can currently be seen playing Aurora’s BFF Sal...
Aug 19, 2020•1 hr 30 min•Season 4Ep. 17
Director Shannon Kohli, actor Raylene Harewood and producer Jon Ornoy visit the YVR Screen Scene Podcast to dish on All Joking Aside, a dramatic feature film set in the world of stand-up comedy. All Joking Aside is Shannon’s directorial debut (although she’s no novice director; she’s won awards and acclaim for directing episodic television like Supergirl, Riverdale, Motherland: Fort Salem, and The Magicians, as well as short films). All Joking Aside follows a new stand-up comedian named Charlene...
Aug 15, 2020•40 min•Season 4Ep. 16
Filmmakers Luna Ferguson and Florian Halbedl visit the YVR Screen Scene Podcast to discuss Henry’s Heart, their short film that screens this month at the 2020 Vancouver Queer Film Festival. In Henry’s Heart, a man named Henry awakens in an overgrown field and travels through a nostalgic reflection of his life by reliving moments of his past loves. Legendary actor Lorne Cardinal – best known to people around the world for playing Sergeant Davis Quinton on Corner Gas – plays Henry at all stages of...
Aug 13, 2020•43 min•Season 4Ep. 15
Gwynyth Walsh portrayed B’Etor – one of the iconic, scheming Duras sisters – on Star Trek: The Next Generation , but she’s more than that one powerful role. The Vancouver actress is an accomplished, award-winning actress with a diverse and impressive filmography. Her credit list includes animation, science fiction, heavy drama, Christmas movies, rom-coms, crime procedurals, mysteries, and everything in between. She played chief forensic pathologist Dr. Patricia Da Vinci on the legendary series D...
Aug 08, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Season 4Ep. 14
Fiona Forbes is a Vancouver media icon and veteran broadcaster who has interviewed more than 30,000 celebrities and newsmakers over the course of her career. Fiona hosted Urban Rush – later The Rush – on Shaw Television, before hosting the aptly titled talker, Fiona Forbes . She is currently senior creative producer and host for Hubcast Media. In this entertaining and fascinating conversation, Fiona shares her memories of Regis Philbin, and talks about panic attacks, shifts in the media landscap...
Aug 04, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 4Ep. 13
Showrunner Simon Barry returns to the YVR Screen Scene Podcast for a joyful and revealing conversation about Warrior Nun . Ten episodes of Warrior Nun dropped on Netflix on July 2, and almost immediately it became everyone’s newest obsession. The show is based on the comic book series Warrior Nun Areala by comic book artist Ben Dunn and tells the story of the Order of the Cruciform Sword, a fictional military order of badass nuns in the service of the Catholic Church. Like its source material, t...
Aug 01, 2020•52 min•Season 4Ep. 12
Actor-playwright-columnist Omari Newton returns to the YVR Screen Scene Podcast to talk about the psychology of anti-maskers, dismantling white supremacy in the local film and television industry, being #40AF, and his upcoming podcast. Also: why does he choose to remain in Vancouver, and is the MCU’s Erik Killmonger a villain? Episode sponsor: UBCP/ACTRA
Jul 28, 2020•46 min•Season 4Ep. 11
The Order star Louriza Tronco reflects on Gabrielle Dupres’ wild season two story arc – including mauling the character played by her IRL BFF Sarah Grey and cozying up to Randall (played by Adam DiMarco) – and her own identity as a Filipino Canadian actress. Also: should Gabrielle feel guilty for what she did while Midnight was in control? All this – and a spirited round of Favourite Things – in Episode 101 of the YVR Screen Scene Podcast. Episode sponsor: UBCP/ACTRA
Jul 25, 2020•46 min•Season 4Ep. 10
Pop the champagne! The YVR Screen Scene Podcast is officially 100 episodes old – and for this epic podcasting milestone, we assembled an epic group of epic past guests for one epically epic episode (deserving of ALL of the “epics” in the preceding sentence): Amanda Tapping , Michael Eklund , Nicole Oliver , and Sharon Taylor . Over mid-morning, midweek mimosas, this remarkable quartet of #BCFilm icons (and YVR Screen Scene Podcast host Sabrina Furminger) discuss chasing magic, Western alienation...
Jul 21, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 9
We’ve packed two interviews into our milestone 99th episode! First up is a fascinating and wide-ranging catch-up with actor-producer John Cassini. John – who was recently nominated for three Leo Awards for acting – discusses his recent spate of passion projects (including Daughter and Volition ), sharing screen-time with his brother Frank and wife Jenn MacLean Angus, and creating art in the age of COVID-19. We’ve also got a comprehensive conversation with Volition director and co-writer Tony Dea...
Jul 10, 2020•1 hr 33 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Netflix’s The Order is the epic, gory, sexy, emotional, and weirdly funny tale of two competing secret societies on a university campus: the titular Order, dedicated to practicing and protecting magic, and the Knights of St. Christopher, who are wisecracking, hard-drinking werewolves sworn to stamp out bad magic. The Order returned for its highly anticipated second season in June 2020, and in this hilarious and informative interview with Sabrina Furminger, showrunner Dennis Heaton and executive ...
Jul 07, 2020•52 min•Season 4Ep. 7
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 Distinction Award from UBCP, and a Leo nomination and a Best Supporting Actress Award at the American Indi...
Jul 03, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 4Ep. 6
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. Episode sponsor: UBCP/ACTRA
Jun 30, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 5
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 online on June 13, 2020. The panel was moderated by YVR Screen Scene Podcast host Sabrina Furminger and...
Jun 25, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 4Ep. 4
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
Jun 23, 2020•50 min•Season 4Ep. 3
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 talks about Eddy’s Kingdom , his stranger-than-fiction documentary about an immigrant to Canada who...
Jun 18, 2020•52 min•Season 4Ep. 2
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 where, instead of being burned at the stake, the witches of Salem entered into a pact with non-magic...
Jun 16, 2020•43 min•Season 4Ep. 1
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 last few days – while millions of people around the world, including in 140 American cities, have flo...
Jun 04, 2020•53 min•Season 3Ep. 26
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 Hiro Kanagawa as an aging Yakuza assassin, and Mayumi Yoshida as his emotionally fraught daughter. Bef...
May 29, 2020•41 min•Season 3Ep. 25
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 Wedding Belles . Aubrey wrote, directed, and starred in Kindergarten Da Bin Ich Weider , a hilarious shor...
May 28, 2020•55 min•Season 3Ep. 24
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 UBCP/ACTRA. In this wildly entertaining interview (recorded pre-COVID-19), Lauro talks about his rough...
May 22, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 23
Adrian Petriw returns to the YVR Screen Scene Podcast to talk about Adam’s journey in season two of Netflix’s The Hollow; his reaction to the shocking death of The Hollow's [SPOILER]; his lifelong love of Brio and Led Zeppelin; and how he’s navigating “The Quar.”
May 20, 2020•45 min•Season 3Ep. 22
How can we combat the xenophobia and racism awakened by COVID-19? Barbara Lee from the Vancouver Asian Film Festival discusses the wave of attacks against Asians in North America, and how the organization’s #Elimin8Hate initiative aims to stem the tide. Episode sponsor: Fish Flight Entertainment
May 14, 2020•31 min•Season 3Ep. 21
