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There’s certain to be lots that filmmakers and other creatives can relate to in part one of Joyce Kline’s two-part interview with Vancouver based, internationally award-winning, writer/director Connor Gaston. With humour and rare honesty, Connor shares the joys and challenges of growing up in a household of writers, adapting his own father’s novel, collaborating with his brother Vaughn, directing children, and how he bounces back when something doesn’t work.  Connor’s films have screened in prestigious festivals around the world including TIFF, Busan, Sapporo, Sedona, Newport Beach, Whistler, and Vancouver Film Festival—along the way winning multiple Leos and other awards including a Grand Prix in Paris’s Courts Devant short film festival. He won the BC Emerging Filmmaker Award at Vancouver International Film Festival, graduated from Norman Jewison’s Canadian Film Centre, and was a member of the 2017 TIFF Talent Lab.  He currently teaches at the Vancouver Film School. Mentioned in this episode: Watch The Cameraman on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/323984793 Other films: Watch Encore on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/601186469 Watch Adam in the Wall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqMx4zJwDu0 More about Connor: IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4497477/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/connor-gaston-94560068/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/connorgaston/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/connor.gaston X: https://twitter.com/connorgaston Subscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2S5WB7q  Podcast Production Team: ·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta ·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican ·      Host, Researcher & copywriter: Joyce Kline ·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta

Last episode, we heard from one of the most requested camera operators in Canada, award-winning, daredevil cinematographer DAVID MALYSHEFF.  David is known for delivering the goods under extreme conditions - filming from horseback, helicopters, and even Zodiacs crashing their way through rapids. This episode, David fills us in on his quieter, but no less moving, personal passion project - creating a 90-minute documentary on the late Jewish composer Peter Gary and Gary’s epic holocaust oratorio A 20th Century Passion. Listen in as David explains how holocaust survivor Gary worked to “Stamp Out Hate” through both music and lectures to 60,00 youngsters, what drew him to his story, and how the current situation in Israel and Gaza have affected crowdfunding to complete the film. With more than 25 years of television production experience in film and broadcast video, David Malysheff has been behind the camera on numerous Canadian TV shows including The Nature of Things, The Fifth Estate, The Amazing Race, Moosemeat & Marmalade, Canada’s Next Top Model and the moving documentary Us and Them, which he also co-produced.   Mentioned in this episode:  Listen to a performance of Peter Gary’s A Twentieth Century Passion oratorio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGpv4fNO4tY A Twentieth Century Passion Go Fund Me campaign: https://www.gofundme.com/f/gxp8kd-a-20th-century-passion-film  David’s website: https://gamutproductions.com/about  IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0540926/  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-malysheff-95686018/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gamut_productions/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gamutproductions/  Subscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2S5WB7q  Podcast Production Team: ·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta ·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican ·      Host, Researcher & copywriter: Joyce Kline ·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta

Not many cinematographers shoot on submarines or from horseback, helicopters and kayaks - but today’s guest filmmaker, award-winning industry veteran David Malysheff, has done exactly that.  With more than 25 years of television production experience in film and broadcast video, David Malysheff has been behind the camera on numerous Canadian TV shows including The Nature of Things, The Fifth Estate, The Amazing Race, Moosemeat & Marmalade, Canada’s Next Top Model and the moving documentary Us and Them, which he also co-produced. Buckle up as he shares tales of his scariest moment, helping out Dennis Hopper, and getting Harrison Ford on board for his documentary The Immortal Beaver. Mentioned in this episode: The Immortal Beaver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wQjAB-jnI8&themeRefresh=1  Website: https://gamutproductions.com/about  IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0540926/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-malysheff-95686018/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gamut_productions/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gamutproductions/ Subscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2S5WB7q  Podcast Production Team: ·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta ·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican ·      Host, Researcher & copywriter: Joyce Kline ·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta

Film sets are high pressure environments with brutally long hours and the traditionally hierarchical structure of a military campaign. In this episode, filmmaker and much sought-after editor Lesley Marshall tells us how she balances the needs of her young daughter with her work in the film industry, why she thinks we should demand on set childcare, and what employing anti-oppression based filmmaking and horizontal leadership structures would look like. Lesley is an award-winning filmmaker whose films have screened in 40 festivals nationally and internationally, whose music videos have been featured on sites like Rolling Stone, American Songwriter, Vice and Exclaim!, whose projection art has been performed at the National Art Centre, Montreal Jazz Fest, CentrePHI, and in galleries in NYC, the Netherlands and across Canada. Her production company MAVNetwork, has worked with Netflix, Vox Media, TD Bank, and MLB, among others.  Lesley’s website: https://les666.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lesley.demon?locale=en_GB Mentioned in this episode: Lesley’s Cinevic Workshop: https://cinevic.ca/event/film-production-workshop-location-sound-and-red-camera-2023-12-02-03/ Murder at the Circus: https://les666.com/portfolio/murder-at-the-circus/ Subscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2S5WB7q  Podcast Production Team: ·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta ·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican ·      Host, Researcher & copywriter: Joyce Kline ·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta

Unless you’re already a well-heeled nepo baby, this might be the one Push In episode you literally can’t afford to miss! Last episode, Push In interviewed filmmaker Denver Jackson, the brilliant creator and one-man animation team behind the web series Esluna: The Crown of Babylon, the feature Esluna: The First Monolith and the upcoming feature The Worlds Divide. This episode, Denver shares how he’s financed his films, why he picked Kickstarter as his crowd funding platform, his fundraising hook and donor perks, and how he built a social media fan base that helped him raise over $102,000. Denver has singlehandedly written, directed, animated and edited numerous award-winning short animations, an entire animated web series - and he’s currently in post on his second animated feature film.  His films have screened around the world - including at three Academy Award-qualifying festival, been a prestigious Vimeo Staff Pick, and won Best Animated Film at San Diego Comic Con International Film Festival and Heartland Film Festival.  Denver’s films: YouTube video on the making of The Worlds Divide:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twwChA4Ojjs Esaluna: The Crown of Babylon trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcbhSvw3d1Q The Worlds Divide teaser trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E56og3Eog0M Learn more about Denver: IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3364672/ Website:  http://www.cloudrisepictures.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denver.jackson/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denver.jackson Subscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2S5WB7q Podcast Production Team: ·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta ·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican ·      Host, Researcher & copywriter: Joyce Kline ·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta

Pride yourself on being hard working and dedicated to your art? Well, this interview with award-winning Victoria animator Denver Jackson will make you feel like a total slacker! Buckle up as this one-man powerhouse shares how he got into animation, the brutal details of his typical work day, the importance of keeping focus to complete projects, and why he’ll never use generative AI. Denver Jackson has singlehandedly written, directed, animated and edited numerous award-winning short animations, an entire animated web series--and he’s currently in post on his second animated feature film. His films have screened around the world—including at three Academy Award-qualifying festivals—been a prestigious Vimeo Staff Pick, and won Best Animated Film at San Diego Comic Con International Film Festival and Heartland Film Festival.  Mentioned in this episode: YouTube video on making of The Worlds Divide:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twwChA4Ojjs Esluna: The Crown of Babylon trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcbhSvw3d1Q The Worlds Divide teaser trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E56og3Eog0M IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3364672/awards/?ref_=nm_awd Website: http://www.cloudrisepictures.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denver.jackson/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denver.jackson Subscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2S5WB7q Podcast Production Team: ·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta ·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican ·      Host, Researcher & Copywriter: Joyce Kline ·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta

This September, after over 40 years, Victoria’s iconic Pic A Flic Video will close, imperiling its unrivaled collection of 25,000 cult classics, musicals, foreign films, sci-fi, short films, silent movies, independent animations and rare documentaries you can’t find anywhere else.  Video stores may be an endangered species, but losing this treasure trove of film history would be an extinction event! That’s why Push In’s host Joyce Kline and director Paul Ruta teamed up to interview film buff and Pic A Flic owner Kent Bendall on the store’s history, holdings, zany customers, and the future of the collection. Gentle listeners, Pic a Flic needs an action hero to come to its aid. So if you’re out there,  Atom Egoyan or Ryan Reynolds, or if you don’t want to see the collection terminated, James Cameron, or you want to foster parent it, David Foster, or you don’t want this good thing to come to an end, Nelly Furtado, please listen up! Read more about Pic a Flic’s closure: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/victoria-video-store-closing-1.6853653 https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/pic-a-flic-victoria-movie-rental https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-vancouver-islands-last-video-store-plays-on-for-new-generations-of/ Pic a Flic website: https://pic-a-flic.video Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/picaflicvideo/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/picaflicvideo/ Shaw TV Spotlight Interview with Kent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbJ5ixrnJa8 Subscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2S5WB7q  Podcast Production Team: ·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta ·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican ·      Host, Researcher & copywriter: Joyce Kline ·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta

Host Joyce Kline reaches across the Pacific for a fun chat with Singapore based, BAFTA-nominated animator Calleen Koh.  Calleen’s short To Kill the Birds and the Bees—a real highlight of this year’s Short Circuit Pacific Rim Film Festival—will screen again in Ottawa June 21st as part of Short Circuit’s National Tour.  Hear how this talented young filmmaker stays gutsy with her daring and quirky material and her take on everything from Catholic Sex Ed and the  filmmaking scene in Singapore, to getting a BAFTA Student nomination, and the weird responses men have had to her blatantly sexual animated films. Referred to in this episode:  To Kill the Birds and Bees trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH98qHfZFJw  Hot Buns trailer: https://vimeo.com/809648470  Watch Sexy Sushi: https://calleenkohart.myportfolio.com/sexy-sushi  About Calleen:  Website: https://calleenkohart.myportfolio.com/films  IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm13461008/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/calleen-koh-4b740b117  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/calleenkoh/ Subscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2S5WB7q  Podcast Production Team: ·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta ·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican ·      Host, Researcher & Copywriter: Joyce Kline ·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta Subscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2S5WB7q  Podcast Production Team: ·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta ·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican ·      Host, Researcher & Copywriter: Joyce Kline ·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta

In this fun episode, Joyce meets up with writing/directing team Sonya Chwyl and Anik Desmarais-Spencer. Their latest short horror comedy Slip poses a sadly relatable question for these inflationary times: “How far will you go to keep your s****y rental?”  Slip just won Audience Choice at this year’s Short Circuit Pacific Film Festival and you can watch it on the big screen for free in Regina, Ottawa and St. John’s as part of Short Circuit’s 2023 National Tour.  Anik and Sonya’s last film Baby Teeth won Outstanding BC Film in  Short Circuit’s 2020 festival and both films have screened in festivals US and Canada wide.  Listen up as this dynamic duo not only “dissects” the glory—and the gory—of using fake blood on screen, they also share: ·      What they learned from previous films. ·      Why, for them, co-directing is like "being in a solid, committed relationship.” ·      What they did to get a corpse’s POV shot for Baby Teeth.  Referred to in this episode: Slip trailer: https://vimeo.com/809648470  Watch Slip as part of Short Circuit’s 2023 National Tour: https://cinevic.ca/short-circuit-film-festival-2023-national-tour/  Baby Teeth trailer: https://vimeo.com/387733966  Follow Sonya: IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10533132/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonyachwyl/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sonya.cyl/  Follow Anik:  IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11335305/ Subscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2S5WB7q  Podcast Production Team: ·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta ·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican ·      Host, Researcher & Copywriter: Joyce Kline ·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta

What’s it like to pitch to a panel of judges in front of a live theatre audience— when you think you’re awful at pitching? That was the challenge for multi-talented filmmaker Daniel Kwon, the writer, director, editor and co-producer of 2022’s Cinespark winning film The Girl in the Forest. Daniel is a true renaissance man: filmmaker, screenwriter, director, editor, colorist, set decorator, videographer, graphic designer, motion graphic design, storyboard artist and animator. Fresh from his film’s premiere in 2023’s Short Circuit Pacific Rim Film Festival, Daniel had lots to share with host Joyce Kline, including: ·      How he managed to successfully pitch The Girl in the Forest in spite of being “terrified.” ·      Shooting shorter days on a limited budget. ·      His desire to make a film that unites cultures. Follow Daniel:  Stage 32: https://www.stage32.com/Danielkwon  IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3321053/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/daniel.kwon.1982  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hooyoun1982/ The Girl in the Forest: Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVRKbHQ_rYA Website: https://www.facebook.com/tgitf.shortfilm/ Subscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2S5WB7q Podcast Production Team: ·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta ·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican ·      Host, Researcher & Copywriter: Joyce Kline ·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta      

Every screenplay has at least one element that a filmmaker knows is going to be tricky to carry off. But when the script demands you track down an elusive rare bird and find a location where an actor can safely fell a giant tree with a hand axe, you’re going to have to get extra creative. How director James Hunter, with the help of producer Faith Gouga, managed to pull all this off in their haunting short film NEST—is a fascinating tale all on its own.  James is an award-winning Australian writer, director, editor and producer whose 16mm black and white “gothic psychodrama” NEST is one of the outstanding films in the 2023 Short Circuit Pacific Rim Film Festival.  The film is currently making the festival rounds and has screened in such prestigious Academy Award Qualifying festivals as Melbourne, St. Kilda, Atlanta, HollyShorts, FlickerFest, and SITGES film festivals.  Follow James: Website: https://www.jameshunterfilm.co  IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3741370/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jameshunterfilm/ Watch NEST online through May 2023: https://cinevic.ca/short-circuit-film-festival-2023/ Follow NEST: https://www.instagram.com/nest.short/ https://www.facebook.com/nestshort Subscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2S5WB7q  Podcast Production Team: ·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta ·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican ·      Host, Researcher & Copywriter: Joyce Kline ·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta

Revealing what your family’s really like behind the scenes can be a giant leap of faith that few have the courage—and family support—to take. In her sensitive short The Mess We’re In, emerging Vancouver writer/director JAMIE LAM draws upon personal experience growing up in the loving home—of a hoarder! While the film never sugar coats the stress this caused Jamie growing up, it’s a triumph of love over tidying up. It was a hit in this year’s Short Circuit Pacific Rim Film Festival and won Best Cinematography, Best Direction and Best Film at the 2022 Mighty Asian Moviemaking Marathon. If you’ve ever considered making your family the subject of a film, this revealing interview might just give you the push you need to take the plunge. Follow JAMIE: IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8635386/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamie-lam-4b5061161/ Subscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2S5WB7q Podcast Production Team: ·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta ·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican ·      Host, Researcher & Copywriter: Joyce Kline ·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta