Jesse Inocalla is a wildly talented voice actor best known for his stunning work voicing Soren on Netflix’s The Dragon Prince . Soren can be cocky and brash but also charming, charismatic, a little dim, and kind, and Jesse’s inspired performance hits all of those beats. Jesse’s lengthy and growing filmography also includes Spider-Ham in Marvel Battleworld: Mystery of the Thanostones , Reptil in Marvel Super Hero Adventures , Scorm in LEGO Chima , and Sasa in YooHoo & Friends . In this entert...
Jul 21, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Season 7Ep. 30
Brian Drummond is a versatile voice artist with more than 325 credits to his name. He’s wielded this versatility in beloved projects like Death Note , Ninjago , Corner Gas Animated , The Last Kids on Earth , The Hollow , My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic , Super Dinosaur , Slugterra , Wolverine Versus Sabretooth , and Ultimate Wolverine Versus Hulk , as well as a fan favourite turn as Vegeta in Dragon Ball Z . In this entertaining and wide-ranging conversation, Brian gets candid about his impr...
Jul 14, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 7Ep. 29
Keilani Rose is a scene-stealer in Shoresy , a spin-off of Jared Keeso and Jacob Tierney’s beloved comedy series, Letterkenny . Shoresy follows the foul-mouthed, chirp-serving, mother-loving, fan favourite character from Letterkenny named Shoresy as he joins the Sudbury Bulldogs in a quest to never lose again. Shoresy is audacious, surreal, daring, and hilarious. It’s also intersectional in a way that feels authentic and unifying and exciting. Vancouver-based actress Keilani Rose shines as Miigw...
Jul 07, 2022•50 min•Season 7Ep. 28
Khrystyna Syvolap arrived in Canada with her 8-year-old daughter nearly three months ago, seeking refuge from Russia’s unjust assault on Ukraine. Khrystyna is a commercial director who has directed television, short films, and a feature film (2020’s Viddana ). She's a member of the Ukrainian Film Academy and was on Forbes Magazine's list of Ukraine's "30 Under 30" for 2021. And for the moment at least, her life is here in Vancouver. In this special episode of the YVR Screen Scene Podcast, Sabrin...
Jul 04, 2022•52 min•Season 7Ep. 27
Aliyah O’Brien is a versatile actress, an advocate for self-love, and a happy wanderer who has ambled ’round the world. Aliyah is beloved for her work as one half of #Golly on Rookie Blue , for playing a brilliant detective on Take Two , and for fun roles in series like DC’s Legends of Tomorrow , Bates Motel , You Me Her, and Sanctuary. In this fun and fascinating conversation with Sabrina Rani Furminger (facilitated by generous pours of Zirkova Vodka), Aliyah reflects on what she’s learned on h...
Jun 29, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 7Ep. 26
Aleks Paunovic ( Snowpiercer ) and Tahmoh Penikett ( Battlestar Galactica ) didn’t exactly hit it off when they first met in acting class more than 20 years ago, but the friendship they built in the intervening years is the stuff of legend. In the third of our #IndustryBFFs series, these best bros bring us into the inner workings of their epic friendship, and discuss the myriad of ways their friendship informs how they navigate this really weird business. Episode sponsor: UBCP/ACTRA...
Jun 23, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 7Ep. 25
This is the fifth episode in our ongoing #StopAsianHate series where we explore the intersection between anti-Asian hate and the film and television industry. May is Asian Heritage Month, and to paraphrase Sandra Oh, it’s an honour to celebrate the depth and breadth of what it means to be Asian. Asian is a big word; Asia is comprised of nearly 50 countries, billions of people, thousands of cultures and languages and ways of life. So when we celebrate Asian Heritage each May, we are celebrating b...
May 24, 2022•39 min•Season 7Ep. 24
Actress Erin Karpluk is known around the world for her starring role in CBC’s Being Erica, which aired for four seasons in 180 countries and won Erin a Best Actress Gemini Award in 2009 and a Best Lead Actress Leo Award in 2010, and she’s beloved in the local industry for playing Kate, the restaurant manager who experiences an incredible trauma, in the Vancouver-shot Godiva’s. More recently, she led the Hobbie family through five seasons of Family Channel’s Holly Hobbie , and she’s turned in mem...
May 19, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Season 7Ep. 23
Bill Newton’s filmography is chock-full of voice performances that are exciting, adventurous, daring, and damn funny. Bill has voiced everyone’s favourite God of Mischief Loki in multiple marvel projects, including Lego Marvel Adventures and Marvel Battleworld: Treachery at Twilight . He was nominated for a 2021 UBCP/ACTRA Award for voicing the dude-bro ogre BrainFreeze in Monster Beach (a performance he based in part on Keanu Reeves). He’s turned in an array of witty, wacky, and wonderful perfo...
May 13, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 7Ep. 22
By the time William B. Davis debuted in the pilot episode of The X-Files as the Cigarette Smoking Man, he’d already built a storied career as a director, acting teacher, and actor on both sides of the Atlantic. William documented his journey to The X-File s in his 2013 book, Where There’s Smoke… Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man – a journey that began with CBC audio dramas when he was a child and continues to this day with roles on popular fare like Amazon Studio’s Upload and Mike Flanagan’s hi...
May 11, 2022•31 min•Season 7Ep. 21
What comes to your mind when you hear the words “Doug and the Slugs”? If you live in Canada and grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, you probably think of one of the hottest party bands of the era fronted by the unlikeliest of rockstars: the late, great Doug Bennett. And you probably smile, because songs like “Too Bad” and “Real Enough” and “Making It Work” and “Day By Day” and their accompanying music videos were fun, and because Slugmania was real. You can revisit the songs and the men who made the...
May 06, 2022•28 min•Season 7Ep. 20
It’s been six years since the British Columbia government declared the opioid overdose crisis a public health emergency. More than 9,400 British Columbians have died from overdoses since January 2016. 174 people were lost in the month of February 2022 alone. Colin Askey’s film Love In The Time Of Fentanyl goes beyond the cold statistics and to the heart of what’s at stake: human beings in our province, all of whom are worthy of love, care, and respect. Love In the Time of Fentanyl highlights the...
May 05, 2022•28 min•Season 7Ep. 19
Filmmaker Shakil Jessa is determined to make the kind of films he needed to see when he was a queer Muslim teenager. This determination is particularly evident in Imran and Alykhan , a short film about two boys who fall in love at a Muslim youth retreat but have to keep their relationship a secret from those around them; the film will premiere on May 7 at Crazy8s. Shakil recently wrapped his first development deal with WarnerMedia for a story about a queer Muslim teenager going to university for...
Apr 29, 2022•36 min•Season 7Ep. 18
Veteran actresses Gabrielle Rose ( The Sweet Hereafter ) and Camille Sullivan ( Intelligence ) like each other very much, and like to work together too. So who better to talk about the joys and challenges of collaboration than these two queens of the Canadian drama scene? In the second episode of our #IndustryBFFs series, Gabrielle and Camille reflect on their friendship and talk camaraderie, chemistry, navigating toxic behaviour, and competition. Episode sponsor: Fish Flight Entertainment...
Apr 27, 2022•40 min•Season 7Ep. 17
Knowledge Network is the public broadcaster in British Columbia. But what many in the public didn’t know until an equity audit laid it bare in February was that, in the past seven years, only 1.7% of the $2 million granted by Knowledge Network to filmmakers went to filmmakers of colour, and 0% went to Indigenous majority-owned companies. To put it in perspective, 1.7% of $2 million is only $34,000. Thus, a group of diverse independent filmmakers and BC residents recently launched a petition call...
Apr 22, 2022•33 min•Season 7Ep. 16
Kathleen Robertson visits the YVR Screen Scene Podcast to talk about her years acting on Maniac Mansion and Beverly Hills 90210 and her current gig showrunning Roku’s hit series Swimming With Sharks . The last – a dark thriller – is a reimagining of the 1994 film of the same title, about a Hollywood assistant who turns the tables on an abusive boss. But this time, the Hollywood assistant and the abusive boss are women: played by Kiernan Shipka and Diane Kruger respectively. Donald Sutherland, Th...
Apr 20, 2022•44 min•Season 7Ep. 15
Charissa Barton is responsible for choreographing one of the most universally beloved opening credits sequences of all time: that of Peacemaker on HBO Max. Newsweek described it as “[probably] the most memorable opening credits sequence of any superhero show in recent years.” The Hollywood Reporter went even further, calling it “one of the greatest opening credits in TV history.” In the sequence, characters like Peacemaker (John Cena), Vigilante (Freddie Stroma), Harcourt (Jennifer Holland), and...
Mar 25, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 7Ep. 14
Let’s Make A Sci-Fi is audacious. The new CBC podcast follows three Vancouver comedians – Ryan Beil, Maddy Kelly and Mark Chavez – as they set out to write a successful, non-comedy sci-fi pilot with help from scientific experts and Hollywood screenwriting pros, including actor Rainn Wilson, astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson, District 9 filmmaker Neill Blomkamp, showrunners Jem Garrard and Simon Barry, and Catherine Winder, CEO of Wind Sun Sky. Over the course of eight episodes, the comedians ov...
Mar 18, 2022•30 min•Season 7Ep. 13
Lea Salonga is the beloved singer and performer who won a Tony Award for originating the role of Kim in Miss Saigon , and who built a global fanbase for her work as the singing voices for Jasmine in Aladdin and as Mulan in Mulan and Mulan 2 – work for which the Walt Disney Company bestowed upon her the title of Disney Legend. She was the first Asian woman to play Eponine in the musical Les Misérables on Broadway and returned to the beloved show as Fantine in the 2006 revival. She has performed o...
Mar 11, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 7Ep. 12
Agam Darshi returns to the YVR Screen Scene Podcast to talk about Donkeyhead , the feature film that she stars in, wrote, and directed. Agam plays Mona, a failed writer who carves out a life of isolation while caring for her ailing Sikh father. When Mona’s father has a debilitating stroke, her three successful siblings – played by Stephen Lobo, Sandy Sidhu, and Huse Madhavji – show up on her doorstep determined to take control of the situation. What ensues is heartbreaking, hilarious at times, r...
Mar 08, 2022•46 min•Season 7Ep. 11
Natasha Burnett plays Minnie Canfield, matriarch of the Canfield family, on Hallmark Channel’s When Calls The Heart . The Canfields joined the wildly popular family drama for its eighth season; over the course of 12 episodes, Minnie was revealed to be loving, fiercely protective, and level-headed – and fans, known far beyond their fandom as the Hearties, embraced Minnie and all of the Canfields, who also happened to be the first Black family to be featured on the long-running show. So that’s Min...
Mar 04, 2022•1 hr 31 min•Season 7Ep. 10
Dan Payne is a versatile actor. From John Dover on The Good Witch to Traeger in Mech X-4 , from Beast in Disney’s wildly popular Descendants films to a high-powered real estate mogul in the first episode of Family Law , Dan’s handles comedy, action, genre fare, children’s entertainment, and drama with apparent equal ease. And he’s got five Leo Awards nominations – and two wins, one for Aliens Stole My Body and the other for Aliens Ate My Homework – to show for it. Dan makes it look easy, but it’...
Feb 23, 2022•1 hr 37 min•Season 7Ep. 9
When actress-director Keegan Connor Tracy ( The Magicians , Once Upon A Time ) turned 50 years old in December, she vowed to take this milestone year to really sit in what it means to grow older: especially as a woman, and especially in the film and television industry. Keegan recently popped by the YVR Screen Scene studio to drink birthday champagne and join Sabrina for a fun and freewheeling conversation about the war on aging, what she learned when she let her hair turn silver, “Instagram fac...
Feb 15, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Season 7Ep. 8
We’re All In This Together is a feature film about three sisters who struggle to find a way to work together when their mother’s long tenuous mental health takes her over a waterfall in a barrel. The sisters are each plagued by their own demons – their own insecurities, addictions, traumas, mental health woes, and issues with each other – but it’s only when they learn to speak directly to each other, see the hurt in each other, acknowledge the pain that their mother’s mental illness has had on t...
Feb 11, 2022•33 min•Season 7Ep. 7
In the first of our series of episodes featuring #IndustryBFFs, screenwriters Dennis Heaton ( The Order ; The Imperfects ) and Rachel Langer ( Transplant ) join Sabrina Rani Furminger for a rousing and insightful conversation about craft, community, collaboration, breaking into the industry, showrunning, bean bag chairs, and what r eally goes on in television writers’ rooms. Episode sponsor: Fish Flight Entertainment
Feb 09, 2022•59 min•Season 7Ep. 6
Kazumi Evans has worked steadily as a voice actress since she entered the industry at the age of nineteen. Her many credits include Monster Beach , Polly Pocket , The Hollow , The Dragon Prince , multiple Barbie movies, and Rogue and Boomer in Wolverine vs. Sabretooth. She voiced multiple characters on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic – and provided Rarity’s singing voice – and she voiced the dastardly Adagio Dazzle in the wildly popular My Little Pony : Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks. Kazum...
Feb 02, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 7Ep. 5
Actor Bob Frazer’s filmography is packed with ne’er-do-wells, evil puppet masters, and smarmy bastards. Bob was Roger Hayden, also known as the Psycho Pirate, in Supergirl and Arrow – a supervillain who could control the emotions of everyone around him. He was the Sourcerer, a criminal mastermind hacker, in the thoroughly entertaining (albeit divisive) ReBoot: The Guardian Code . He was a slimy luxury car dealer lording over a hapless dad portrayed by Eric McCormack in Drinkwater , the indie hit...
Jan 28, 2022•43 min•Season 7Ep. 4
Jewel Staite is the actress behind a veritable parade of dynamic characters, including the volatile and feisty Abigail on Family Law , the kind-hearted mechanic Kaylee on Firefly and Serenity , the brilliant and insecure Dr. Jennifer Keller on Stargate Atlantis , and a pair of sadistic magical twins on The Order . She’s also an entrepreneur, a mother, a wife, a friend, a fan favourite, and really funny. Her Twitter followers know that she doesn’t suffer trolls: she’ll call out the insanity of th...
Jan 25, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 7Ep. 3
Comedians David Milchard and Ken Lawson – AKA the duo behind David and Ken: Comedy with Music! – talk about comedy in the age of COVID, how comedy has changed, how audiences have changed, and what we lose when we don’t let loose with laughter. Episode sponsor: Fish Flight Entertainment
Jan 21, 2022•44 min•Season 7Ep. 2
Rachel Nichols’ career story is packed with memorable characters from all manner of genre entertainment. She was Kiera Cameron, the ass-kicking cop from the future, on Continuum, one of the only locally shot sci-fi series to actually set their story in Vancouver. She was Alexa, the waitress who enjoys a birthday threesome with Samantha and Richard in an iconic episode of Sex and the City. She was possibly the worst babysitter ever seen on screen in The Amityville Horror, a role for which she was...
Jan 18, 2022•58 min•Season 7Ep. 1
