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The YVR Screen Scene Podcast
Vancouver is one of the busiest film and television production centres on the planet. But who powers this thriving local industry? The YVR Screen Scene Podcast seeks to answer that question. Award-winning film and television journalist Sabrina Furminger conducts revealing interviews with the actors, filmmakers, and other talented artists who power the Vancouver film and television industry in this eye-opening twice-weekly podcast.
Episodes
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 201: Rachel Nichols
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…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 200: Chelah Horsdal Returns
Chelah Horsdal has been busy since her first appearance on the YVR Screen Scene Podcast some 193 episodes ago. That episode dropped shortly after she’d wrapped…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 199: Trevor Mack
There’s been a lot of buzz about Portraits From A Fire, and it’s all well deserved. The feature film – which won filmmaker Trevor Mack the award for Best BC…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 198: Roslyn Muir on how to write a TV movie
If there’s one thing we know how to do in Vancouver, it’s make TV movies. Whether we’re talking festive rom-coms, thrillers, or pulled-from-the-headlines…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 197: Meet the cast of Lifetime’s first Christmas movie about a South Asian family
This is the first time the YVR Screen Scene Podcast has dedicated an entire episode to a Christmas movie. But this isn’t your typical Christmas movie. This is…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 196: Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe
Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe is beloved around the world for her portrayal of Rita Haywith-Dorman in the Signed, Sealed, Delivered series and films, about the eclectic…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 195: What role can Indigenous storytelling play in dismantling white supremacy?
Kamala Todd is a Métis-Cree community planner, educator, curator, and filmmaker. Her film credits include Indigenous Plant Diva, Cedar and Bamboo, RELAW…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 194: Nhi Do
Nhi Do is the definition of a versatile actress. In recent years, Nhi has kicked ass as a straight-talking, gun-toting spy in the award-winning web series…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 193: Brian Markinson on the new season of 'Tribal' and breathing life into dark characters
Brian Markinson’s filmography is populated by meanies, baddies, ne’er-do-wells, and other assorted characters who live in morally ambiguous zones in shows like…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 192: Simone Bailly
Simone Bailly is a screen actress, stage actress, painter, singer, deejay, talk show host, producer, model, sci-fi fan, and fan favourite. Simone’s lengthy…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 191: New documentary explores what it means to be South Asian and queer
The documentary Emergence: Out of the Shadows confronts the alienation and discrimination faced by queer people dealing with sexuality, gender, and coming-out…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 190: Steven Roberts
Over the last several years, Steven Roberts has delivered three fearless performances in a trio of searing feature films: in 2019’s In God I Trust, 2020’s…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 189: Carmen Pollard
Carmen Pollard is a documentary filmmaker, editor, producer, and story consultant whose filmography includes For Dear Life, a feature-length documentary in…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 188: Why Rukiya Bernard made ‘The Blactor’
In recent years, actress Rukiya Bernard has spoken publicly and frequently about the blatant racism and racist micro-aggressions she’s experienced as a Black…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 187: Mental Health in #BCFilm with Heather Perluzzo
Content warning: This episode contains frank and graphic talk about mental health, mental illness, and suicide. If you’re thinking about suicide or are worried…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 186: Kevin Eastwood on his excellent adventure through BC’s untold history
Untold history is still history, and it deserves to be heard – and the new Knowledge Network documentary series British Columbia: An Untold History aims to…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 185: Crystal Balint
Crystal Balint has taken us to some fascinating places, eras, and moments in time and space on both screen and stage. On screen, she took us to 1950s San…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 184: Jewel Staite, Victor Garber & Susin Nielsen talk ‘Family Law’
Today’s episode is all about Family Law, the highly anticipated Global Original series in which one dysfunctional family helps other dysfunctional families in…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 183: Ellie Harvie
Ellie Harvie is a veteran actress and stand-up comedian with a filmography a mile long and dozens of award nominations to her name, including two Gemini…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 182: Thomas Nicholson
It’s only been a few years since Thomas Nicholson arrived in Canada (from Denmark, by way of England) in search of a new career and purpose, and it’s clear he…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 181: Meghan Heffern on ‘Sex/Life’
Sex/Life has basically lived in the Netflix Top 10 since it first hit the streaming service in June 2021. The eight-part dramatic series tells the story of…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 180: Grace Dove
Grace Dove is a change-maker, and this abiding passion for change is evident in everything she’s done so far in the film and television industry: as an actor…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 179: Fiona Vroom
Actress Fiona Vroom’s eclectic filmography includes Hell on Wheels, Tim Burton’s Big Eyes, a 1950s housewife with superpowers on the way-ahead-of-its-time web…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 178: Joel Ashton McCarthy talks ‘I Am Alfred Hitchcock’
Alfred Hitchcock was a game-changer. Heck, he made his own game: one through which the goal was to unsettle, to stir, to haunt, to move, and to horrify his…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastBONUS EPISODE: #YVRScreenSceneForIndia feat. Agam Darshi, Dhirendra, Praneet Akilla, Rekha Sharma, Sachin Sahel & Sandy Sidhu
Today’s bonus episode features audio from YVR Screen Scene For India, a star-studded fundraiser for Indian COVID relief that was broadcast live on May 8, 2021…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastBONUS EPISODE: Sharon Taylor interviews Sabrina Rani Furminger
Actress Sharon Taylor (JANN) returns to the YVR Screen Scene Podcast to turn the tables on our host Sabrina Rani Furminger. This funny and at times emotional…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 177: A coming-of-age documentary about a 19-year-old BIPOC adopted trans twin
Levi: Becoming Himself explores the journey of Vancouver’s Levi Nahirney as he navigates his gender identity and transition with the support of his family. The…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 176: Brent Butt, Lorne Cardinal, Nancy Robertson & Tara Spencer-Nairn
Seventeen years ago, Brent Butt was a 30-something stand-up comedian with an idea for a TV show about the zany residents of a prairie town named Dog River…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 175: Aliza Vellani
Aliza Vellani portrays Rani in Sweet Tooth, the critically acclaimed eight-part post-apocalyptic fantasy series that hit Netflix in early June. Sweet Tooth…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 174: Joella Cabalu
Joella Cabalu is a documentary filmmaker and producer based in Vancouver. Since making her directorial debut in 2016 with It Runs In The Family (a deeply…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 173: Jeremy Lutter and Marcy Waughtal talk ‘Ghost Town Killer’
In the realm of fictional true crime podcasts – that delicious genre where the worlds of true crime and narrative fiction collide – Ghost Town Killer is a…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 172: Aleks Paunovic Returns
Actor Aleks Paunovic – AKA the “Big Guy” of the Vancouver film and television industry – returns to the YVR Screen Scene Podcast to discuss the searing indie…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 171: Tahmoh Penikett – PART TWO
Tahmoh Penikett has gained an international fan following for wildly different roles in an array of studio, network, and indie projects, including Battlestar…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 170: Tahmoh Penikett – PART ONE
Tahmoh Penikett has gained an international fan following for wildly different roles in an array of studio, network, and indie projects, including Battlestar…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 169: Mary Galloway
Querencia is one of the very first women-driven, Indigiqueer romantic screen projects anywhere. APTN Lumi's first original series centres on the budding…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 168: Andrea Brooks
Andrea Brooks is beloved around the world for playing two characters that couldn’t be more dissimilar: scientist and assassin Eve Teschmacher on CW’s…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastSeason Finale: Rachel Talalay
Rachel Talalay is a film and television director and a producer. That’s how her Wikipedia entry opens, and while accurate, it fails to capture just how punk…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 166: Kent Donguines
Kalinga (Care) is about the tens of thousands of women who leave the Philippines each year to work in Canada and other countries as nannies and caregivers…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 165: Sheona McDonald
Dead Man’s Switch: a crypto mystery and Into Light don’t appear to have much in common beyond the fact that both are currently streaming as part of the 2021…
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Five can’t-miss films at 2021 DOXA Documentary Film Festival
Picks include films about Wuhan’s lockdown, 1950s drag queens, Tomahawk Restaurant, and two separate wars on vulnerable populations
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 164: #StopAsianHate with Mayumi Yoshida
In the fourth episode of our #StopAsianHate series where we explore the intersection between anti-Asian hate and the film and television industry, actress and…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 163: Anne Wheeler
Anne Wheeler is a screenwriter, a director, a mentor, and a legend in the Canadian film and television industry. Her films include Bye Bye Blues, Loyalties…
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Vancouver stars headline online benefit for COVID-19 relief efforts in India
YVR Screen Scene for India streams live on May 8
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 162: Tesh Guttikonda and Luvia Petersen
In this fascinating, funny, and emotional episode of the YVR Screen Scene Podcast, Sabrina is joined by two remarkable filmmakers who’ll premiere genre-bending…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 161: Pascale Hutton
Pascale Hutton is a bona fide genre-hopper, and the proof is in the work: as the beleaguered Juliana on Chris Haddock’s Intelligence, a role for which she won…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 160: Steve J. Adams & Sean Horlor
Steve J. Adams and Sean Horlor are the dynamite filmmakers behind Someone Like Me, a feature-length documentary that follows the parallel journeys of Drake, a…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 159: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Kainai is the largest reserve in Canada. Since 2014, the community has lost hundreds of its members to fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 to 100 times more…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 158: #StopAsianHate with Vincent Tong
This is the third episode in our #StopAsianHate series where we explore the intersection between anti-Asian hate and the film and television industry. Voice…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 157: Praneet Akilla
Praneet Akilla walked away from an engineering career in Alberta in order to make it as an actor. Since arriving in Vancouver in 2018, he’s lit up the screen…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 156: Julia Sarah Stone
Julia Sarah Stone’s filmography is populated by wildly vulnerable characters, like Lyric on AMC’s The Killing, Eva in Geoff Redknap’s stellar “disappearing…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 155: Why Sarah Surh made a film about miscarriage
One in four pregnancies end in miscarriage, but despite how rampant it is, you wouldn’t know it from how rarely it’s discussed between friends, or portrayed in…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 154: #StopAsianHate with Lee Shorten
This is the second episode in our new #StopAsianHate series where we explore the intersection between anti-Asian hate and the film and television industry…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastBONUS EPISODE: Screen Scene Society reviews ‘The Mandalorian’
YVR Screen Scene presents the Screen Scene Society Podcast. Each episode, co-hosts Christian Sloan (The Black Tapes, See) and Sabrina Furminger (The YVR Screen…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 153: #StopAsianHate with Lexa Doig
This is the first episode in our new #StopAsianHate series where we explore the intersection between anti-Asian hate and the film and television industry…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 152: Viv Leacock Returns
Actor Viv Leacock returns to the YVR Screen Scene Podcast to talk about his latest role: that of Joseph Canfield, the patriarch of the newest family to move to…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 151: How COVID-19 changed the Vancouver film and television industry
One year ago this week, COVID-19 shut down the Vancouver film and television industry. On March 12, 2020, The CW suspended production on Riverdale when a crew…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 150: Courtney Paige and Kaitlyn Bernard discuss ‘The Sinners’
Pride and greed. Lust and envy. Gluttony, wrath, and sloth. Those are all sins – the cardinal sins, the capital sins, the seven deadly sins – and they’re the…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 149: Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth “Liz” Bowen shines on SyFy’s Resident Alien. The hilarious and ominous sci-fi series tells the story of an alien – played by Alan Tudyk – who crashes…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 148: Jonathan Lloyd Walker
You don’t come across actor-showrunners too often – especially when the projects they’re acting in are not ones they’re showrunning. But Jonathan Lloyd Walker…
The YVR Screen Scene PodcastEpisode 147: A crew member wore a BLM shirt to a Vancouver set and was told it was too political
On Monday, February 22, 2021, a film worker showed up for work to the Vancouver set of a production called Gone Mom wearing a Black Lives Matter t-shirt. Two…