Canadian filmmakers and co-writers Shane Belcourt and Tanaya Talaga joined me to discuss their documentary Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising, chronicling the life of Ojibway Warriors Society leader Louis Cameron and Anishinabeg youth leaders and members of the American Indians Movement who lead a series of sit-ins and protest actions for Indigenous rights in Canada throughout the early in1970s.

Shane is an award-winning Metis filmmaker, and Tanya is an Anishinaabe journalist, author, and producer.

#IndigenousRights #FirstNations #IndigenousHistory #CarolynTalks #Interview

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Award-winning filmmaker and actress Hannah Cheeseman joined me for #CarolynTalks to discuss MARRIAGINALIA about the words unsaid in a marriage where the words left unsaid linger in the space of their comfort with each others.

#Marriaginalia stars Kayla Lorette and Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll

#ShortFilm #FilmCritic #Interview #IndependentFilm #Podcast

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Writer, director, and executive producer Solara Thanh Bình Đặng, joined me to discuss Chín, her gothic fairytale short about a young Vietnamese woman whose life on her father's durian farm on the Mekong Delta, is about to change when she meets people significant to her life in her dreams and reality.

#CarolynTalks #Interview #FilmCritic #VietnameseFilm

Chín, which translates to Ripe in English stars Hayley Ngọc Mai and Samuel An, had it's international premiere at #VIFF and was produced by @naltobelproductions

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Writer, director, and producer Ava Maria Safai joined me at  @FantasiaFest  2025, to discuss her debut feature length horror FOREIGNER about the trauma of cultural erasure and assimilation experienced by Yasi (Rose Deghan), a young girl attempting to fit into her new Canadian school after immigrating with her family from Iran.

#CarolynTalks #Fantasia2025 #IndependentFilm #FilmCritic #Interview

Foreigner is produced by  @harlequintheatresociety , and had its world premiere in the in the Septenrion Shadows platform.

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In this episode of #CarolynTalks award-winning documentarian Hind Meddeb discusses her 2025 documentary SUDAN, REMEMBER US, in which she documents Sudanese youth during the 2019 and 2020 revolution using poetry, music, art, and writing as tools of resistance against the ongoing genocide, colonialism, and oppression perpetrated by the imperial forces tearing their homeland apart.

#SudanRememberUs #KeepEyesOnSudan #Interview #FilmCritic #BoycottDubai

Visit  @watermelonpicturesco  , for screening information.

List of aid organizations for Sudan aid relief:

www.khartoumaidkitchen.org

sapa-usa.org

www.darfurwomenaction.org

Mutualaidsuda.org

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2VQ3HVQ8B5AC2

https://linktr.ee/SavingAlGeneina

https://chuffed.org/project/126780-tky-alaabasy-2

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Award-winning Hong Kong filmmaker Adam Wong 黃修平 spoke with me for #CarolynTalks about his new dramatic feature, THE WAY WE TALK 看我今天怎麼說,, about a trio of deaf young adults, Sophie, Wolf, and Alan learning to navigate a world where they face discrimination, roadblocks, and disapproval in their personal and professional lives.

#TheWayWeTalk #看我今天怎麼說 stars Neo Yau 游學修, Chung Suet Ying 鍾雪瑩, and Marco Ng 吳祉昊 , and was co-written by SeeKing, 1000springs, and Ho Hong 何康 .

#HongKongFilm #Interview #Podcast #Deaf #Cantonese #SignLanguage

The film is produced and distributed by  @illume_films  and  @OneCoolFilmProduction 

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For the North American premiere of their dramatic period film SEPPUKU: THE SUN GOES DOWN 切腹：日が沈む, actors Masayuki Deai, Takeshima Yuka, and Sasada Yuka spoke with me about portraying a samurai experiencing fear at the prospect of dying, a wife tasked with supporting her family through her grief and her close relationship with her maid.

#CarolynTalks #JapaneseMovie #Samurai #Interview

#SeppukuTheSunGoesDown #切腹日が沈む was directed by Yuji Kakizaki, and screened at the  @JapaneseCanadianCulturalCentre  2025 Toronto Japanese Film Festival

Interpreting for the interview was conducted by Aki Takabatake, CEO of Momo Films Inc.

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For the Canadian premiere of his period drama RIVER RETURNS 光る川 filmmaker Masakazu Kaneko 金子雅和 spoke with me about working with his young lead actors Asuka Hanamura, Yo Aoi, Sanetoshi Ariyama, and using the traditional Japanese visual storytelling artform of Kamishibai to tell a time traveling folktale of honoring traditions and nature rather than sacrificing them for modernisation.

#光る川 #CarolynTalks #JapaneseFilm #Interview

#RiverReturns premiered at the 2025 Toronto Japanese Film Festival hosted by @JapaneseCanadianCulturalCentre

Interpreting for the interview was conducted by by Aki Takabatake, CEO of Momo Films Inc.

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Following the theatrical release of their film #40Acres, producer Jennifer Holness and actress Jaeda LeBlanc joined me to talk about developing the films characters with director R. T. Thorne, and it's not so far fetched dystopian and postapocalyptic themes, and how their feelings about the Canadian film industry and the world has changed since working on the film.

#CarolynTalks #Interview #FilmCritic #canadianfilm

40 ACRES was co-written by Thorne, Glenn Taylor and Lora Campbell, and stars Danielle Deadwyler, Michael Greyeyes, Kataem O'Connor, Leenah Robinson, and Milcania Diaz-Rojas.

#40Acres is distributed by  @StrikeMedia 

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For the North American premiere of her earnest romantic comedy SHE TAUGHT ME SERENDIPITY, director Akiko Ohku joined me to discuss working with actor Riku Hagiwara to find the balance in his character's Konishi's introverted nature with his blossoming love and appreciation for the small moments in life, and being inspired by the film's themes of spontaneity, and world events.

#CarolynTalks #JapaneseFilm #Interview #Podcast #

#SheTaughtMeSerendipity #今日の空が一番好き、とまだ言えない僕は stars Yuumi Kawai and Aoi Ito.

The film had it's North American premiere at the 2025 #TorontoJFF @JapaneseCanadianCulturalCentre 

Based on the original novel Kyou no Sora ga Ichiban Suki, to Mada Ienai Boku wa" (今日の空が一番好き,とまだ言えない僕は), the film was adapted for the screen by Fukutoku Shusuke (福徳秀介).

Interpreting for the interview was conducted by by Aki Takabatake, CEO of Momo Films Inc.

*Trailer credit @NipponConnectionTV 

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