Face2Face with David Peck

Rebecca Snow and Steve Gamester and Face2Face host David Peck talk about their new film Cheating Hitler: Surviving The Holocaust, survivors guilt, meaningful history and the power of memory, pivotal moments in personal stories and why we never should forget.

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Synopsis:

Rose, Maxwell and Helen were 10, 9 and 7 years old when the Second World War began. Robbed of their childhood, they were old before they were young.

They endured the terror of forced labour, killing squads and concentration camps. After the war, they discovered their families had been decimated, that their homes were reduced to rubble, and their possessions lost or stolen. Now, 75 years after the war ended, these three survivors are looking for answers to deeply personal questions they’ve carried with them their entire lives.

Cheating Hitler is a modern-day investigation into lingering mysteries from the Holocaust. Three survivors and family members travel to Poland, Ukraine, and Lithuania exploring some of the hidden and rarely visited sites where the Holocaust occurred. They consult with historians, genealogists and forensic experts and uncover new life-changing information.

Children have always been central to the story of the Holocaust. The most recognized victim, Anne Frank, was a child. And yet, for decades, the testimony of most child survivors was overlooked. Some felt overshadowed by the experiences of their elders, too traumatized to share their memories, or felt guilt for surviving and living long lives.

This film focuses entirely on the unique experiences of children survivors, now in their final years, and often telling stories and revealing secrets on camera for the first time. Their testimony provides a powerful warning from history and a last chance to solve lingering mysteries.

Cheating Hitler is about one of the darkest chapters of human history, but what shines through are stories of resilience, bravery and survival.

About the Guests:

Rebecca Snow is an award winning director, writer and producer specializing in history and social issue documentaries. 

Rebecca won the 2018 Canadian Screen Award for Best Direction in a Documentary Program for Real Vikings: Viking Women. Her early career was spent in the UK working on BBC’s The Battle for North America, Simon Schama’s Power of Art and the dramatized series Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire.

Her writing/directing broadcast credits include CBC’s Nature of Things, NBC’s Who Do You Think You Are? And for History Channel; Museum Secrets, Perfect Storms, Battle Castle and Mummies Alive. She also co-produced Hunting Nazi Treasure. 

In 2018 Rebecca created, produced and directed the online documentary series The Better is Possible Project. Intimate and inspiring mini-documentaries about six very different people facing their own personal struggles and how they are using their experiences to fuel change. A number of the shorts are currently playing festivals worldwide.

Her first feature documentary Period: a film about menstrual equity is scheduled for release in 2019.

Steve Gamester is a founding partner of Saloon Media. He has worked as a Development Executive, Broadcaster, Executive Producer, Producer and Series Show Runner for clients in Canada, the United States, the UK and Germany. 

He is currently producing two feature-length documentaries, the first about the impact of 9/11 on American society, and the second about children survivors of the Holocaust. Both are due for release in late 2019. In 2016-17 he developed and produced Hunting Nazi Treasure (8 x 60), a Canada-UK co-production for History Canada, Channel 4 UK and AHC in the US. The series travelled to 13 countries on 4 continents to investigate the Nazi looting of cultural objects during the Second World War. In 2016 he developed and produced the 1 x 60 special Auction House for History Canada.

In 2015 he produced Mummies Alive, a six-part UK-Canada co-production for Smithsonian Channel US, UKTV, History Canada and ZDF. In 2013-14, he produced Miracles Decoded, for AETN International. In 2012-13 he developed and produced Perfect Storms: Disasters that Changed the World, for History Canada, Smithsonian US, UKTV. In 2011, he co-produced the feature one-off documentary The Great Escape: Secrets Revealed for Channel 4 in the UK and History in Canada. 

Prior to joining eOne he developed and was the Series Producer of Museum Secrets, a returning series that broadcasts on History in Canada, Smithsonian in the USA, Yesterday in the UK, and is distributed by BBC Worldwide.

Steve’s productions have been nominated for over twenty Canadian Screen Awards.

From 2005 to 2009, Steve was a Production Executive of Original Programming at Canwest and Alliance Atlantis and oversaw more than 300 hours of programming for History, National Geographic, Showcase, and Global Television. 

Steve has a Masters in Public History from the University of Waterloo and an Honors BA in History from Huron College.

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John Walker and Aaron James and Face2Face host David Peck talk about their new film Assholes: A Theory, the public good, economics and indifference, activism and authoritarianism, capitalism and greed, public spaces and shared prosperity.

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Synopsis:

Ever get the feeling that assholes are taking over the world?

Bad behaviour is as old as human history, something we all encounter at some point—whether on the playground, in the workplace or in public life. But the phenomenon seems to be amplified in an age of venomous social media and resurgent authoritarian politics.

With rampant narcissism threatening to trash civilization as we know it, the time has come for Assholes: A Theory, an entertaining and oh-so-timely new doc from acclaimed director John Walker. Built around a lively conversation with philosopher Aaron James, author of the New York Times bestseller of the same name, Assholes: A Theory investigates the breeding grounds of contemporary “asshole culture”—and locates a few hopeful signs of civility in an otherwise rude-’n-nasty universe.

Venturing into a predominantly male domain, Walker moves from the frat clubs of elite colleges to the bratty princedoms of Silicon Valley and bear pits of international finance. Why do entitled assholes thrive in certain environments? What explains their perverse appeal and success? And how do they keep getting elected!

Weighing in with pungent commentary are observers like actor John Cleese, referring sweetly to the hedge-fund trade as an “arsehole factory”—echoing law professor Saule Omarova’s tart appraisal of financial services as “a quintessential asshole industry.” While Leslie Miley, one of the few African-Americans to rise through Silicon Valley’s ranks, assesses the damage done by the move-fast-and-break-things mantra, and former police officer Sherry Lee Benson-Podolchuk shatters the clichéd image of the courteous Mountie with Women Not Wanted, her exposé of misogynistic assholery within the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Other featured interviews include policy consultant Robert Hockett, who worked for both Occupy Wall Street and the US Federal Reserve in the wake of the 2008 crash; banker Paul Purcell, who has pioneered a novel “no asshole rule” at his company; and Italian LGBTQ activist Vladimir Luxuria, a former parliamentarian who famously locked horns with Silvio Berlusconi, the p***y-grabbing prototype of the 21st-century demagogue.

About the Guests:

John Walker is one of Canada’s most prolific and respected documentary filmmakers. His films have been widely broadcast and have appeared at major international film festivals in Toronto, Vancouver, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, London and Tokyo. From the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, he has received 19 nominations and awards, including the coveted Donald Brittain Award for best social/political documentary, for Utshimassits: Place of the Boss.

Walker also received a Gemini for best documentary director (The Hand of Stalin) and a Genie for best feature documentary (Strand – Under the Dark Cloth), a personal portrait of his mentor, the photographer and filmmaker Paul Strand. His film on the Cape Breton coal miners’ choir, Men of the Deeps, won three Gemini Awards, including best performing arts, best documentary photography and best sound, as well as a best director nomination.

Walker’s directorial credits on Great Britain’s Channel 4 include Hidden Children, a film about children who concealed their Jewish identity to survive the Holocaust; Orphans of Manchuria, also nominated for the Donald Brittain Award; and the groundbreaking Distress Signals, based on the communication theories of Canadian scholar Harold Innis, which also received a nomination for a Donald Brittain Award. With Utshimassits: Place of the Boss, he turned his attention to a tragedy on Canadian soil – juxtaposing the powerful testimony of the Mushuau Innu of Davis Inlet with the vast Labrador landscape. Walker’s feature-length films include the Genie-nominated The Fairy Faith, Tough Assignment, Strand – Under the Dark Cloth, and the critically acclaimed feature drama A Winter Tan, starring Jackie Burroughs, which received seven Genie nominations including best motion picture and best director, and won best actress.

Walker also co-produced, wrote and directed the provocative feature film Passage, a fiction/documentary for BBC and History Television about the search for the fabled Northwest Passage. The Toronto Star called it “One of the great triumphs in Canadian documentary film history.” His feature documentary A Drummer’s Dream was described by the Globe and Mail as “Beautifully shot and recorded with a lovely sound … (it) isn’t really about drumming, but about joy and self-expression.”

His passionate commitment to the documentary form led him to co-found DOC, Documentary Organization of Canada (formerly Canadian Independent Film Caucus). Now based in Halifax, Walker conducts master classes across the country and mentors numerous emerging filmmakers. He served as guest programmer for Hot Docs, the Canadian International Documentary Festival, and has been a board member since 2011.

Aaron James holds a PhD from Harvard and is professor of philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Assholes: A Theory, Assholes: A Theory of Donald Trump, and Fairness in Practice: A Social Contract for a Global Economy and numerous academic articles. He was awarded a Burkhardt Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, and spent the 2009-10 academic year at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

He’s a skilled, lifelong surfer and lives in Irvine, California.

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Coky Giedroyc and Face2Face host David Peck talk about her new film How To Build a Girl, friendship, loyalty and family, discovery and how life unfolds in front of us in a real, messy and wonderful way and the uncertain personal journeys we all seem to take.

Synopsis:

Johanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein) is a sixteen-year-old, extrovert from the outskirts of Wolverhampton with raging hormones and gigantic dreams. Even though she loves her big, boisterous, dysfunctional family, Johanna knows with absolute certainty that there is something bigger and better for her out in the world. And when she finds it, only then will she start ‘being me’. But quite what ‘me’ is, hasn’t been invented yet.

With her inimitable wit and bottomless imagination, writing is surely her ticket to a brand-new self. After a couple of false starts, Johanna wins a job at top music magazine, D&ME and reinvents herself as revered and feared music critic – Dolly Wilde, the enfant terrible. As she slaughters her way to greater and greater success, the lines between Johanna Morrigan and Dolly Wilde begin to haze. Can she curate her success and hold onto her family, her heroes and her heart? And once you’ve built your girl, is it possible to tear her down and start again?

Based on the novel by Caitlin Moran, How To Build a Girl is an irreverent coming of age comedy about what it’s really like to be a girl.

About the Director:

Coky Giedroyc is a British, critically acclaimed director most recently celebrated for her work on Harlots, written by Moira Buffini for Monumental Television and Hulu.

In 2016, she was awarded a BAFTA for best director of The Sound Of Music

Live starring Kara Tointon and Alexander Armstrong. Coky set up the award-winning drama The Hour written by Abi Morgan and starring Dominic West, Ben Wishaw and Romola Garai which she was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Emmy. She was nominated for both an International Emmy and a BAFTA for the BBC Drama, The Virgin Queen, starring Anne Marie Duff and Tom Hardy. She directed Oliver Twist and

Wuthering Heights, both of which also starred Hardy. Other credits include the four-part BBC1 series What Remains written by Tony Basgallop, Spies of Warsaw, an adaptation of Alan Furst’s novel and Nativity, a Canadian co-production starring Tatiana Maslany.

Her work in the US has included: The Killing, Penny Dreadful with Eva Green and Rory Kinnear, Broad Squad, a pilot for ABC, Veena Sud’s series Seven Seconds and Gypsy, starring Naomi Watts and Billy Crudup. Coky served for four years on the board of Directors UK and is a mentor to young female filmmakers starting out in the industry.

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Shawney Cohen and Face2Face host David Peck talk about his new Rat Park, addiction, mental health, context and environment, boredom and drug decriminalization and rats that meditate.

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Synopsis:

The secret to solving the world’s drug crisis lies in a forgotten psychology experiment involving rats and heroin. Thirty years later, RAT PARK shows how the experiment’s radical findings are more relevant than ever. Following three stories 10,000 miles apart, we witness why drug laws and addiction are not really about the drugs. They’re about the cages we live in. In Portugal, a ceramics artist struggles with an all-consuming heroin problem even in a society that unconditionally supports drug users On the other side of the world, a young grieving mother and a hardened photojournalist in the Philippines grapple with the extrajudicial killings of drug users.

And in Palm Beach, an outlaw recovery worker fights for life-saving tools for drug users living in ground zero of America’s opioid crisis. Through the perspective of the rat experiment's creator and leading drug policy experts, RAT PARK shows us that a world where all drugs are legalized might be the only option in the aftermath of the futile war on drugs.

About the Director:

Shawney Cohen is a Toronto based filmmaker who has created some of the most important documentaries for VICE. His film Dopesick gained international attention for being one of the first feature documentaries to uncover the street use and origins of fentanyl. The film was part of the VICE Canada Reports Series which won a Canadian Screen Award in 2017. The Manor was Cohen's feature directing debut and nominated for Best International Documentary at the Zurich Film Festival. The documentary was also awarded a special mention jury prize at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and selected as the opening night gala film at Hot Docs.

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Garin Hovannisian, Serj Tankian and Face2Face host David Peck talk about their new film I Am Not Alone, politics and protest, Armenia and the Velvet Revolution, citizen protests, activism, advocacy pessimism and hope.

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Synopsis:

On Easter 2018, a man put on a backpack and went live on Facebook to announce that he was beginning a walk across Armenia. His mission: to inspire a velvet revolution — and topple the corrupt regime that enjoys absolute power in his post-soviet nation. With total access to all key players, I AM NOT ALONE tells the miraculous true story of what happens in the next 40 days.

Garin Hovannisian’s gripping documentary deftly follows the efforts led by journalist, politician, and activist Nikol Pashinyan to prevent the election of the country’s president, Serzh Sargsyan, as the new prime minister — a move that would essentially put Sargsyan in control of Armenia for life, making him a de facto dictator.

The movement begins hopelessly, with Nikol and just a handful of supporters — including a stray dog — setting out on a 14-day march from one side of the country to the capital Yerevan. As they clash against the regime, there are many moments when their efforts seem doomed to fail, like every democratic movement in Armenia before them. But this time something is different. Step by step, the marchers begin to capture the hearts and minds of the Armenian public. Within a few weeks, the country erupts in a spectacular revolution, as millions of citizens take to the streets, disperse across their neighborhoods, and stage some of the most creative, powerful, and surprising acts of civil disobedience in modern history. 

This incredible political drama presents an emotional and inspiring roadmap for how a true democratic movement can achieve profound change against all odds. It is packed with rich and memorable characters, plot twists, and a true hero’s journey.

About the Guests:

Garin Hovannisian has been an active participant in Armenia’s struggle for freedom, and has written about it for The Atlantic, The New York Times, and in his memoir Family of Shadows. He is the co-writer/director of the feature film 1915 (2015), a psychological mystery set 100 years after the Armenian Genocide, and praised by the Los Angeles Times as a “a high-minded version of Birdman…a creative way to do justice to such a monumental topic.” He splits his time between Los Angeles and Yerevan, Armenia, where he has founded the arts foundation Creative Armenia. His production company Avalanche Entertainment (est. 2014) has produced I Am Not Alone and 1915, and a variety of forthcoming projects in film and television.

Serj Tankian acted a composer and executive producer on the project and he is a Grammy-winning frontman of the band System of a Down has long been a musical inspiration to the democratic struggle in Armenia. He is the film’s composer and EP, and an interview subject. In addition to five albums with SOAD and five solo albums ranging from metal to jazz to orchestral symphony, Tankian has been composing films since 2015, including titles such as 1915 (2015), Intent to Destroy (2017), Furious: The Legend of Krovat (2017), and Spitak (2018). He is producing a forthcoming rockumentary about his journey as a musical activist, which is also directed by Garin Hovannisian.

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Lisa Fiorilli and Face2Face host David Peck talk about working in the cultural sector, diversity and inclusion, passion and people, statistics, and the perception and definition of art.

Making It Work:

WorkInCulture is a non-profit arts service organization that supports the people who work in the cultural sector in Ontario through life-long career development and entrepreneurial and business skills training. Specifically, WIC is recognized for its Job Board and for connecting employers to artists, creatives and cultural workers; though WorkInCulture is not just the Job Board.

In partnership with sector leaders and funders, WorkInCulture develops and delivers diversified learning opportunities for artists, creative entrepreneurs and arts administrators from all creative disciplines and stages of their careers.

WorkInCulture is committed to implementing inclusive programming through its Creative Boost and WorkSmarts workshops and webinars, eLearning modules, Creative Works Conference, mentorship programs, professional development activities, and free resources found on its website.

About our Guest:

Lisa Fiorilli is a research and policy professional with several years of experience in Canada’s arts & culture sector. Her experience has spanned across the public and not-for-profit sector, and she is passionate about developing and sharing the data that tells the story of the value of arts and culture to our economy and society.

She joined WorkInCulture as the Research & Outreach Manager in 2017, and she is tasked with managing the organization’s flagship research projects, including MakingItWork, as well as with developing a broader research strategy for WorkInCulture.

Her previous experience includes policy, research and funding-related roles at the Canadian Independent Music Association, Ontario Creates (formerly the Ontario Media Development Corporation), and the Bell Fund. Her educational background is in political science and economics, and she holds a Master of Arts degree in Public Policy and Administration from Ryerson University. 

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Andrea Hummel and Face2Face host David Peck talk about cultural diversity, political correctness, policy over practice, trauma and safe space, empathy and understanding and why being a hermit might not be a great idea.

Improve for Peace is a group that helps organizations, communities and professionals actively resolve miscommunication. Participants re-script their past via experiential learning. They use guided improvisations to do in a workshop setting what they can’t always do in real life. We provide opportunities for participatory community reconciliation. We help heal the psychic wounds of people and groups historically in conflict. We don’t take sides.

About our Guest:

Andrea Hummel is trained in cultural anthropology with a Masters from American University (Washington, DC) and additional studies in refugee affairs and linguistics. In 1991 she founded a consulting firm specializing in cultural diversity and provided trainings, cultural needs assessments and human relations consulting. She taught on the adjunct faculty of the University of Florida and Manatee Community College.

Initially her focus was on preventing conflict (via cultural understanding); now it is on resolving conflict (via improvisations). She is the developer of the cutting-edge Improv for Peace method for helping individuals and communities improve empathy and create alternate endings to historical and current conflicts.

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Laura MacNiven and Face2Face host David Peck talk about ADHD and hyperactivity, mental health stigma, neurotransmitters and relationship building, self-awareness, being free of judgment and the fullness of hope.

New Book: May We Have Your Attention Please? A Springboard Clinic Workbook for Living and Thriving with Adult ADHD.

About our Guest:

Laura MacNiven, M.Ed., is Director of Clinic Services at Springboard Clinic: a leading multidisciplinary clinic specializing in ADHD awareness and treatment in Canada. Focusing on health literacy and learning resources, she is the founder of the Finding yourSELF program that leads to long-term behaviour change for adults.

As a professional who experiences attention issues herself, she is deeply passionate about sharing a message of hope—and effective tools to meet the challenge. She enjoys outdoor sports, writing and exploring the world through the eyes of her two children.

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Natasha Luckhardt and Face2Face host David Peck talk about her new film Town of Widows, human rights, public engagement and picket lines, trust in the system, workplace justice, and why evidence is rarely neutral.

Trailer

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Synopsis:

Directed by Natasha Luckhardt and Rob Viscardis, Town of Widows is a documentary exposé of widows and workers in the “Electric City” of Peterborough, ON fighting for justice in a system stacked against them. 

Peterborough, ON., was home to a GE plant for over a century. With 6000 employees at its peak in the 1960’s and 1970’s, GE threw Christmas parties for the community of workers and helped to start the town’s university. But over time, employees and their families noticed more and more GE workers dying from cancer.

Looking back, the warning signs and symptoms were there—the nosebleeds and headaches, the red patches on their skin, the coughs that wouldn’t go away—and workers had a hunch GE was making them sick.

In Town of Widows co-directors Natasha Luckhardt and Rob Viscardis chronicle former GE workers and widows seeking compensation for decades of contamination that caused hundreds of fatal and chronic illnesses. They open up to Luckhardt and Viscardis’ camera, sharing their anger with GE and frustration with the WSIB’s compensation system.  First-hand accounts from survivors, and interviews with labour leaders, medical experts and Toronto Star reporter Sara Mojtehedzadeh, are woven together with archival photos and footage of the century old plant and decades long fight.

The challenges they face are formidable. Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) is supposed to compensate workers and their families for work-related injuries and illnesses, but widows and workers report that their claims have been routinely rejected or that they have been left waiting, sometimes for decades.

About the Director:

Natasha Luckhardt (co-director, producer) is an advocate for workers' rights, with a focus on work-related diseases. Her day job involves developing worker-centric training programs for a health and safety organization. She has also worked in research, labour law, journalism, fundraising and politics. Natasha became a health and safety advocate during her Master’s degree at McMaster University in Work and Society, where she published a thesis on an occupational disease cluster at General Electric in Peterborough. Natasha has continued her work in the community by producing a documentary project called “Town of Widows” which follows an empowered community of widows and workers fighting for justice.

Natasha has been interviewed about the documentary by outlets such as Peterborough this Week, CBC London, CBC Waterloo and Hazards Magazine. During her spare time, Natasha sings folk labour music with her mum.

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Ian Toews and Face2Face host David Peck talk about his new TV series Ageless Gardens, citizen science and the environment, hope, fertility, nature and art, eating locally and why you can always find energy in the soil. 

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Synopsis:

Ageless Gardens is a visual celebration of gardens – and the gardeners behind them. Viewers have commented that even just watching the series is therapeutic and gives the viewer the same experience of tranquility and the natural rhythm of life as gardening itself does. 

Each episode presents a portrait of a wide range of Canadians whose lives have been greatly enriched through the gardening experience:

About the Director:

Ian Toews has been making films and television series since 1996. His works are primarily concerned with the natural environment.

He is the producer, director, and DOP of 7 short films, more than 75 television episodes, and 7 full-length documentaries, including the Gemini Award winning series Landscape as Muse and the Canadian Screen Award nominated theatrical feature documentary Bugs on the Menu. His latest series Ageless Gardens was nominated for six Leo Awards (Best Documentary Series, Direction, Cinematography, Editing, Sound, and Music) and a Golden Sheaf Award (Best Documentary Series).

He also recently completed Etthén Heldeli: Caribou Eaters (nominated for three Golden Sheaf Awards), and Victor Cicansky: The Gardener’s Universe.

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