Rewind Fast Forward – Details, episodes & analysis

We love talking about Canadian films so much we teamed up with Thom Ernst to create a podcast where we invite Canadian filmmakers to talk about their artistic influences past and present. 

For more information on the filmography of Deepa Mehta, visit: http://www.hamiltonmehta.com

For more information on KCFF, please check us out at kingcanfilmfest.com or @kingcanfilmfest

Hosted by Thom Ernst 

Produced by Moira Demorest

Support for this podcast comes from the Kingston Canadian Film Festival which is situated on the traditional homeland of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and Huron-Wendat. This podcast is generously funded by the Canada Council for the Arts. 

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We love talking about Canadian films so much we teamed up with Thom Ernst to create a podcast where we invite Canadian filmmakers to talk about their artistic influences past and present. 

For more information on the filmography of Valerie Buhagiar, visit: http://valeriebuhagiar.com

For more information on KCFF, please check us out at kingcanfilmfest.com or @kingcanfilmfest

Hosted by Thom Ernst 

Produced by Moira Demorest

Support for this podcast comes from the Kingston Canadian Film Festival which is situated on the traditional homeland of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and Huron-Wendat. This podcast is generously funded by the Canada Council for the Arts. 

Thanks for listening!

Welcome! The Kingston Canadian Film Festival proudly presents Rewind Fast Forward, a podcast where we chat with filmmakers about their work and the future of the Canadian cinema.  

Hosted by Thom Ernst 

Produced with original music by Moira Demorest

For more information, please check us out at kingcanfilmfest.com This podcast is generously funded by the Canada Council for the Arts. Thanks for listening! 

We love talking about Canadian films so much we teamed up with Thom Ernst to create a podcast where we invite Canadian filmmakers to talk about their artistic influences past and present.

For more information on the filmography of Cory Bowles, visit: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0101227/

For more information on KCFF, please check us out at kingcanfilmfest.com or @kingcanfilmfest

Hosted by Thom Ernst

Produced by Moira Demorest

Support for this podcast comes from the Kingston Canadian Film Festival which is situated on the traditional homeland of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and Huron-Wendat. This podcast is generously funded by the Canada Council for the Arts. 

Thanks for listening! 

For more information on Patricia Rozema’s filmography, visit: https://patriciarozema.com

For more information on KCFF, please check us out at kingcanfilmfest.com or @kingcanfilmfest

Hosted by Thom Ernst 

Produced by Moira Demorest

Support for this podcast comes from the Kingston Canadian Film Festival which is situated on the traditional homeland of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and Huron-Wendat. This podcast is generously funded by the Canada Council for the Arts. 

Thanks for listening!

Our second season begins with one of the most acclaimed Indigenous directors in the world, Alanis Obomsawin. Her incredible body of work includes 50 films (and counting) including landmark documentaries like Incident and Restigouche (1984) and Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993). The Abenaki director has received numerous international honours and her work was showcased in a 2008 retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. For more information on Alanis Obomsawin’s filmography, visit: https://www.nfb.ca/directors/alanis-obomsawin/

For more information on KCFF, please check us out at kingcanfilmfest.com or @kingcanfilmfest

Hosted by Thom Ernst

Produced by Moira Demorest

Support for this podcast comes from the Kingston Canadian Film Festival which is situated on the traditional homeland of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and Huron-Wendat. This podcast is generously funded by the Canada Council for the Arts. 

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The final episode for this season features filmmaker Vicki Lean (After The Last River, KCFF 2016).  Lean's work is driven by her passion to develop new and engaging ways to tell stories about science and the environment - and our place within it. Raised by environmental scientists, her work is motivated by the importance of effectively translating science to politicians and the public.

Find Vicki Lean on Twitter: @Victoria_Lean

Alex Lazarovich's short film is available here)

Rewind Fast Forward is hosted by Thom Ernst

Produced with original theme music by Moira Demorest

Support for this podcast comes from the Kingston Canadian Film Festival which  is situated on the traditional homeland of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and Huron-Wendat.   This podcast is generously funded by the Canada Council for the Arts. 

Thanks for listening!

Join Thom Ernst and director Sean Garrity as they talk about independent filmmaking, working out west, and the importance film festivals have for Canadian filmmakers. 

Follow Sean Garrity: @garritywinnipeg

During this episode we discuss other Canadian filmmakers:

• Deco Dawson
• Matthew Rankin
• Don Carmody 

Rewind Fast Forward is hosted by Thom Ernst

Produced with original theme music by Moira Demorest

Support for this podcast comes from the Kingston Canadian Film Festival which is situated on the traditional homeland of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and Huron-Wendat.  This podcast is generous funded by the Canada Council for the Arts. 

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Join us while we chat with Matt Johnson about The Dirties,  guerilla style filmmaking, and the pursuit of film success in a Canadian market.

Hosted by Thom Ernst.

Produced with original theme music by Moira Demorest. Support for this podcast comes from the Kingston Canadian Film Festival. This podcast is generously funded by the Canada Council for the Arts. 

Thanks for listening!

I’m a horror fan. So, when I had the opportunity to do the Q&A at the Kingston Canadian Film Festival for the Canadian premiere of a new horror film Berkshire County, touted as the revival of the 1980s babysitting horror flick, I jumped at the chance.  And as it turns out, the chance had me jumping quite often, because Berkshire County is a well-crafted, tense and delightfully frightening horror movie. And at the helm of it all, is director Audrey Cummings. 

Berkshire went on to win the Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature Film at Shriekfest Los Angeles. The win made her the first female to win the award in the 18-year history of the festival. 

Audrey went on to direct an 11-episode digital series; the prelude to her award winning second feature film Darken, a sci-fi/fantasy thriller which won her four awards including Best Science Fiction Feature Film and two Best Director Awards.  

Then came Audrey’s third feature film She Never Died, an immortal action thriller unlike any I’ve seen before. The film became a hit on the film festival circuit, garnering considerable critical acclaim as well as some major awards.

Audrey received the WIFT New Vision Fellowship Award for Best Emerging Canadian Female Director and was the recipient of the Barry Avrich Award for Emerging Canadian Filmmaker from the Toronto International Film Festival. 

Join Thom Ernst  and Audrey Cummings as they talk about genre films, film festivals and fighting against the attitude that women can’t direct horror. 

Find more about Audrey’s upcoming films at:

https://audreycummings.com/

Original music provided by Moira Demorest

Support for this podcast comes from the Kingston Canadian Film Festival which  is situated on the traditional homeland of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Huron-Wendat.   This podcast is generously funded by the Canada Council for the Arts.