Face2Face with David Peck

Eric talks a great deal about being an artist, self publishing and what it means to make a difference and whether or not comics can change the world and why stories matters.

Eric Kim began his career in comics with Oni Press. He also illustrated Degrassi: The Next Generation Vol. 3, created the comic strip series Battle Academy, The Sidesteppers (which appeared in Owl Magazine), Streta (which was showcased on TX Comics) and The Complete Plays of William Shakespeare,a self-published endeavour. Future projects include the forthcoming Billy Smoke with B. Clay Moore, to be published by Oni Press.

Eric has also been teaching youths and teens for the past few years with his other project, Manga Dojo. There, he teaches students how to create stories and comics, as well as some basics of self-publishing. The group has produced a small handful of self-produced anthologies, and continues tocreate their own work.

For more info: www.inkskratch.com

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Nina talks about her first job at DQ for a dollar an hour, why words are powerful, incremental change and why she challenged and then conquered the climb up Kilimanjaro.

Nina is a popular Toronto-based international keynoter, workshop facilitator, speaker’s coach and bestselling author ofGetting Passion Out of Your Profession. Dubbed by the National Post as, “One of Canada’s leading motivational speakers”, she is in-demand with audiences from a diversity of associations, professions and industries, in both the public and private sectors. Hailing originally from Corporate Learning and Organizational Development, Nina offers over 20 years of professional speaker experience and exudes that magical blend of information and inspiration, served up with high-energy and a relaxed authenticity that appeals to both genders, all generations and the whole spectrum of the corporate landscape, from senior management to frontline staff. A conference planner’s delight, indeed! A recurring “Guru Gab” host for Biz TV and periodic Expert Advisor on workplace issues to Canada’s leading newspaper, The Globe and Mail, she is also a former professional figure skater; and with new wisdom gleaned from her recent summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro–the world’s tallest free-standing mountain–Nina regularly brings audiences to their feet with her engaging, humourous, pertinent and thought-provoking messages. Nina’s next book is due for release in the spring of 2014.

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Don’t miss Kalyanee as she talks about her move from law to film making, how to remain hopeful, social change and the future of Cambodia.

Check out this review of her new film oand its recent viewing in Phnom Penh.

KALYANEE MAM (DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, & CINEMATOGRAPHER) Award-winning filmmaker, lawyer, and born storyteller, Kalyanee Mam, is committed to combining her passion for art and advocacy to tell compelling and universal stories. Born in Battambang, Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge Regime, she and her family fled to the refugee camps at the Thai-Cambodian border and eventually immigrated to the United States in 1981. Even to this day her

mother recounts stories of their flight through jungles laden with land mines. These stories and many others inspired Kalyanee to return to her native homeland and to make films about atrocities occurring in Cambodia even today. Most recently, Kalyanee directed, produced and shot A River Changes Course, winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and the Golden Gate Award for Best Feature Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival, and which charts the radical changes in Cambodia today that are transforming not only the country’s landscape – but also the dreams of its people. Kalyanee has also worked on 2011 Oscar-winning documentary, Inside Job(Cinematographer, Associate Producer, and Researcher) about the global financial crisis and documentary short Between Earth & Sky(Director, Producer, Cinematographer) about three young Iraqi refugee artists living in Syria, Jordan, and Egypt. A graduate of Yale University and UCLA Law School, Kalyanee has also worked as a legal consultant in Mozambique and Iraq.

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Join us as Russ talks about public policy, advocacy and the old days; why he’s a Utilitarian and the notion of “de-skilling”. He talks about governments having lost their way, why you can’t not do what you know needs to be done and discusses how he defines poverty.

Bio

Russ Ford is the Executive Director for LAMP community health Centre in Toronto.

Read his blog here: www.lampchc.org/blog

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You can’t miss this interview as Deirdre talks about her passion for social justice, why she is a Catholic Lesbian and still loves Jesus.

Deirdre Pike is a Senior Social Planner with the Social Planning and Research Council (SPRC) of Hamilton with a special interest in poverty elimination, equity, and inclusion. She is co-chair of the Hamilton Positive Space Collaborative and a leader in delivering Positive Space Training.

Read her article here from the Hamilton Spectator called:How Many Churches Does It Take To Marry A Catholic Lesbian.

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Michael is a social entrepreneur who’s been, “…trying, failing and figuring it out…” for years now. Listen in as he talks about how he won’t waste time, how he doesn’t think that common sense is all that common and why he has preferred seeing the world upside down from the age of three.

Bio

Michael Prosserman aka “Bboy Piecez” found his passion for break dancing at a very young age. By the time he was three, Michael was already standing on his head while watching Saturday morning cartoons. Michael started UNITY Charity at the age of sixteen when he realized that he wanted to share his positive self-expression with other young people undergoing all kinds of challenges.

By the age of eighteen Michael had begun to gain recognition for his passion as he was accepted into the pool of performers for Cirque Du Soleil, featured in the major motion picture “Honey” and has subsequently competed in Japan, Italy, Holland, Thailand, California, Hong Kong, New York, Jamaica, and the Yukon against many of the world’s top break dancers.  In addition to competing Michael used dance as a means of developing a variety of skills that are not traditionally taught in school. Michael decided he wanted to share this alternative education with other young people and expanded UNITY as a student club at York University. The idea behind UNITY earned Michael a spot as a finalist for the Top 20 Under 20 award.  However while all of the positives were occurring in Michael’s life at this time Michael was devastated to learn that he suffered from a chronic neck condition that would limit his dancing forever.  It was after this life altering revelation Michael decided to make UNITY his priority.   Since 2007, UNITY has reached over 30,000 young people across Canada and despite his challenges, Michael continues to dance and is determined to expand UNITY Charity around the world.   While Executive Director of UNITY Charity Michael has received the Vital People award from the Toronto Community Foundation, and was invited to present at TED x Youth Toronto.

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Listen in as Doug tells us how seeing the film Lawrence of Arabia, at 9 years old, changed his life. You’ll want to hear about his new project Art Machine, why the energy on a film set can feel like it’s quickly turned to Molasses, how not to trip over your own preparation, and why it’s sometime better to burn crosses without a permit.

Doug Karr has been creating original independent films since 1997. Karr’s credits include narrative shorts Tiny Dancer, Anniversary Present, The Straitjacket Lottery and the award winning documentaries LSD25, The June Bug Symphony, Lifecycles: a story of AIDS in Malawi, and The Face of AIDS.

The writer of 11 feature length screenplays, his script My Thermonuclear Family won the Grand Prize at the 2007 Filmmakers International Screenplay Competition. A feature film version of Tiny Dancer just received development financing from Canadian studio Movie Central/Chorus with Karr attached to pen the screenplay. His films have been seen by audiences around the world and on numerous television channels. Karr’s short Ten For Grandpa premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and has gone on to screen at over 50 international film festivals, winning multiple awards.

Karr’s latest film, Art Machine, stars Joseph Cross (Milk, Flags of Our Fathers, Running with Scissors), Jessica Szohr (Gossip Girl, Piranha 3D) and Joey Lauren Adams (Chasing Amy, Big Daddy).

Karr is director of Pie Face Pictures in NYC, with recent commercial clients that include Aéropostale, Chicos, The Rockefeller Foundation and Juicy Couture. Karr is represented by Epicenter Management.

The trailer for Art Machine is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5Ty06K7GIU

Download it here from iTunes: http://artmachinemovie.com

More info here: http://artmachinemovie.com

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Check out today’s release as Nada talks about crazy ideas, wanting to give back, making a difference and changing the world. She is a Lebanese woman, born in Dakar and raised in Nigeria working with children in Sierra Leone. Nada is focusing on supporting kids by providing them with shoes, backpacks and food supplies where needed.

Biography

The Smiling Hearts Foundation was established in 2011 by Nada Taan Mackie. She was reading a magazine article about an individual who went to South America and decided to give out shoes to impoverished children. It made Nada realize that the children in her community in Sierra Leone are in the same need as the children the man in the article was helping. She made the decision to start something and the children in her community.

Nada Taan Mackie is a native African, who has lived in West Africa for most of her life. She was born and raised in Nigeria. When she moved to Lebanon for school, she met her husband and moved to Freetown, Sierra Leone. They have been living there for 16 years.

The smiling faces of the children we have helped inspired not only the name of the organization, but also our continued commitment to the improvement of those lives most precious to the future of Sierra Leone. This is why we have been making a special effort to reach out to schoolhouses and hospitals, providing care where children need it most.

Smiling Hearts is more than a charity. The children we help are not viewed as a project, rather a part of the team to better the lives of the community as a whole. The team at Smiling Hearts believes that we must work together to improve our surroundings and that starts with the children of our community. Inspiration is drawn from the people, family and friends of our community.

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Mark talks about Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age, post-secularism, why he loves movies, the political and the religious sphere and how we’re all to some degree still children of the enlightenment.

Biography

Dr. Mark Bowald is Associate Professor of Religion and Theology at Redeemer University in Ancaster, Ontario and serves on the Board of Directors of Langham Canada and is the Theology Editor for Christian Scholar’s Review. He writes, researches and speaks on topics related to the Hermeneutics of Scripture, Philosophy, Theology, and Film Studies.

You can find his book Rendering the Word in Theological Hermeneutics here for sale online.

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