Jem Garrard is an in-demand director, writer, and producer who is quickly carving out her place as one of Canada’s top screen storytellers. Her 2017 sci-fi comedy web series Android Employed imagines a future where robots join the workforce, and it’s at once hilarious, revealing, and slickly produced. In 2018, she directed the entire fourth season of You Me Her, and a horror comedy for Syfy called Killer High – but it’s perhaps Vagrant Queen, the highly anticipated Syfy space opera series that Jem has been showrunning for the last year and premieres this month, that has critics and audiences most excited. In this revealing episode, Jem “Hard G” Garrard talks about her rapid rise from Crazy8s finalist to international showrunner, and reflects on what it was like to film Vagrant Queen in South Africa. Episode sponsor: DGC BC