Push In - The CineVic Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Did you know Victoria had one of the first film studios in Canada and the province’s first film commission? Here's your chance to learn the fascinating history of filmmaking in southern Vancouver Island from someone who knows the film scene inside and out - outgoing Head of the Vancouver Island South Film & Media Commission, Kathleen Gilbert.

Kathleen took on the job of Commissioner in 2010 after a lengthy career as a location manager for film and TV. Under her dedicated leadership by 2022 alone, the Capitol Regional District’s film industry had grown from contributing $6 million to $60 million a year in direct spending. Listen up as she shares her start as a founder member of Cinevic, her weirdest encounter as a location manager and what she’ll miss most when she moves on from Commissioner to civilian.

Mentioned in this episode: https://www.filmvictoria.com/

About Kathleen:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathleen-gilbert-831b931a/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kathleen.d.gilbert
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0318126/

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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

Who else but innovative City of Victoria Artist-In-Residence Kemi Craig would find links between Afrofuturism, west African free divers’ traditional spiritual practice of Orisha, and the spirits of captives drowned in the west African slave trade? 

In work encompassing immersive, multi-sensory, site-specific installations and performances, this innovative dancer, filmmaker, multi-media creator and performance artist creates analog and digital work deeply rooted in themes of anti-oppression and social justice. 

Since getting her start in film at Cinevic Society of Independent Filmmakers, Kemi has participated in artist’s residency programs with CineVic, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and Dance Victoria, and guest curated the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria’s programming series Blueprints for the Afrofuture. Currently, she is the City of Victoria Artist-In-Residence. 

Referred to in this episode:

Music group Drexciya: https://open.spotify.com/album/7bBx5uPv2YgRIAFyXBWhEV 

About Kemi:

Website: https://www.kemicraig.com
Instagram:  http://www.instagram.com/kemi.craig
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kemi.craig
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3008707/

Kemi’s projects:

Afroquatics: https://aggv.ca/exhibits/afroquatics/

Blueprints for the Afrofuture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U654RmSSLU4

UVic talk: https://gatewaytoart.uvic.ca/2024/02/05/artists-talk-kemi-craig/

What Home Means to You
https://www.victoria.ca/city-government/news/free-super-8-film-screening-what-home-means-you-0

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 shitty 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