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Christian Zyp of MOVING RADIO interviewed Robert Cuffley (director/composer) and Susie Moloney (writer) about their film "Bright Hill Road". You can find it on most VOD streaming services.

SYNOPSIS: When a misstep after a workplace shooting puts alcoholic Marcy on leave, she heads out to see her sister in California. Halfway there, she stops for a few days at the Bright Hill Road Boarding House. The walls start to close in on the deeply troubled Marcy, as she loses touch with reality and comes face to face with the misdeeds of her sordid past. Once Marcy begins to think that things are not as they seem, she finds out that Bright Hill Road is hard to leave.

Christian Zyp of MOVING RADIO interviews Guy Lavalee (director/writer) and Tammy Lavalee (subject) about their documentary FAMILY EVER AFTER. You can find it streaming on CBC Gem. An Alberta couple gets more than they bargained for when their attempt to adopt a child through the foster system results in a transformative path to parenthood they never could have imagined.

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Christian Zyp of MOVING RADIO interviews Elle–Máijá Tailfeathers. Her documentary "Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy" opens at The Metro Cinema Friday November 19th, 2021.

Her film witnesses radical and profound change in her community. Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy is an intimate portrait of survival, love and the collective work of healing in the Kainai First Nation in Southern Alberta, a Blackfoot community facing the impacts of substance use and a drug-poisoning epidemic.

Christian Zyp of MOVING RADIO interview Jeff Erbach (writer/director) about his THE NATURE OF NICHOLAS. It screens at The Metro Cinema Sunday October 17th @ 9:30 pm. 
PLOT... Set in a vaguely late-’50s/early-’60s rural milieu, story centers on the awkward pubescence of sixth grader Nicholas (Jeff Sutton), whose pilot father died in a crash some time before. That event left a huge gap in the lives of both son and mother (Ardith Boxall), and mom is distressed that her only child seems to be growing more remote.

AWA ISKWÊW KÂ-ÂPIHKÊW (THE SASH MAKER) - DIrectors Rebecca Sadowski (Métis) and Tamarra Lessard collaborate on a Métis film with contemporary dance, Cree and English translated poetry, and traditional finger- weaving. The Sash Maker promotes the healing of long- standing cultural wounds. The work communicates a collective yearning for family, understanding, and peace. By reflecting on our past, together we can move forward as people woven from diverse strands and circumstances.

Rebecca is an Edmonton-based Métis performer, choreographer, and dance instructor. She has recently joined the Good Women Dance Collective as a collective artist as well as a curator for the NextFest Festival. She currently teaches dance with dancED Movement Project, and the City of Edmonton.

Jarret Kamm interviews Courtney Montour (director) about her documentary short film MARY TWO-AXE EARLY: I AM INDIAN AGAIN. The film is focused on the powerful story of Mary Two-Axe Earley, who fought for over two decades to challenge the discrimination against Indigenous women embedded in Canada’s Indian Act and became a key figure in Canada’s women’s rights movement.

You can see it in person Sun, Oct 3rd @ 3:15 PM OR Wed Oct 6th @ 1:30 pm at Landmark Cinemas 9 City Centre. If you want to watch it online, find it at edmontonfilmfest.com with several more films. 

Christian Zyp interviews TJ Parsell (dir) about his documentary INVISIBLE. It screens as part of The Edmonton International Film Festival in person Fri Oct 8th 6:30 pm & Sat Oct 9th @ 2:30 at Landmark City Center Cinemas. You can also stream it from Oct 1st - Oct 10 by going to edmontonfilmfest.com

INVISIBLE - Growing up gay in the South is hard enough, but to be an openly gay woman in country music is nearly impossible. Nashville is a man's town, yet this group of gay women have persevered anyhow - making an indelible impact on country and southern music. This film explores their deeply personal journeys while taking a piercing look at family, religion and the patriarchy of country music. Featuring Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris, Pam Tillis, Chely Wright and more.

Christian Zyp interviews Christopher Donaldson (dir/writer) about his film DITCHED. See it Sun, Oct 3rd, 8:30 PM and Mon, Oct 4th, 4:00 PM @ Landmark Cinemas 9 City Centre.

In the film, after a routine prison transfer crashes in the forest, young Inuit paramedic Melina finds herself surrounded by murderers with a mere 100 feet to climb out of a ditch to escape. When they are attacked by an unseen force in the forest, Melina's short journey to safety becomes the ultimate contest of wills.

Christian Zyp interviews Justin S. Monroe (director/producer/writer) and Tim Carey (subject/artist) about the documentary HOLY FRIT. It's playing as part of The Edmonton International Film Festival on Sat Oct 9th at 6:30 pm and an encore screening happens Sun Oct 10 @1:30 pm at Landmark Cinemas 9 City Center Cinemas.

Tim Carey is a talented, yet unknown Los Angeles-based artist. He is also a bit of a jackass, who uses wit and humor to charm you into forgiving his flaws. As a Hail Mary, Tim and the company he works for, Judson Studios, bluff their way into winning the commission to make the world’s largest stained-glass window of its kind, beating out 60 companies from around the globe.

MOVING RADIO host Christian Zyp speaks with Mattie Cuvilier about the VHS & Pop Culture Expo. Check it out on September 11, 2021 at BlakBar Tavern (10726 Whyte Ave)from 3 - 7 pm.