Filmmaker Natalie Murao joined me for #CarolynTalks to discuss her short film TEARS BURN TO ASH starring Veena Yamano as a young fourth generation Japanese Canadian (Yonsei), trying to find a connection to her Japanese ancestry during an all too brief trip to the country.

#ReelAsian #Interview #AsianCinema #JapaneseFilm

#TearsBurnToAsh screened at the 2025 @reelasianfilmfest⁩. Visit Natalie's website for more information on her work and screening schedules: nataliemurao.com

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AKASHI writer, director, executive producer, and lead actress Mayumi Yoshida, joined me for #CarolynTalks, to discuss her debut feature film about an artist returning home to Japan, her family, and the memories of a place and people who no longer feel as familiar as they once did after ten years of absence.

#AkashiFilm #JapaneseFilm #Interview #Podcasr

#Akashi costars Hana Kino, RyoTajima, Kimura Bun, and Kunio Murai, and was produced by Mayumi's production company musubiarts.com

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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

Official trailer at https://www.youtube.com/@UCqftVRUgb2bDgKEs4Nabbew

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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

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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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Toronto Director Reza Dahya and lease cast Ashton James and Zoe Lewis joined me for #CarolynTalks to chat about their film BOXCUTTER, which follows aspiring musician Rome, and artist Janaya from the west site of the bustling city to its heart at Yong & Dundas as they confront what it means to be an artist in today's social media driven society how to navigate the way their individual outlooks shapes their perceptions of each other.

#CanadianFilm #Interview #Toronto

#BOXCUTTER was written by Chris Cromie, and distributed by  @gametheoryfilms3831 

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CELLS AT WORK! はたらく細胞 Director Takeuchi Hideki and producer Takeguchi Ikumi of WB Japan, sat with me for the 2025 Toronto Japanese Film Festival premiere of the first live-action feature film adaptation of the famous manga and anime series created by Shimizu Akane.

#HatarakuSaibo #Manga #Anime #CarolynTalks #Interview #FilmCritic #JapaneseFilm

#CellsAtWork #はたらく細胞 was adapted for the screen by Tokunaga Yuichi, produced by #WBJapan and stars Mei Nagano, Takeru Satoh, Mana Ashida, Sadao Abe, Koji Yamamoto, and Riisa Naka

Interpreting by Aki Takabatake, CEO of Momo Films Inc.

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Award-winning Filmmaker Karen Chapman and first-time producer Enrique Miguel Baniqued of VILLAGE KEEPER joined me to discuss the creative, logistical, and chaotic process of producing an independent film in Toronto.

#VillageKeeperFilm #CarolynTalks #Interview #CanadianFilm #Toronto

#VillageKeeper won the John Dunning Best First Feature Film Award at the 2025 Canadian Screen Awards.

The film premiered at #TIFF24 where I interviewed Karen and lead actresses Olunike Adeliyi and Zahra Bentham.

For screening information follow the film's official account at https://www.instagram.com/p/DIPs4Fat0kj/

*Images courtesy of TIFF and  @levelfilm2628 

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In this new episode of Carolyn Talks Film Review, I chat about director Min Kyu-dong's action THE OLD WOMAN WITH THE KNIFE 파과, starring Lee Hye-young and as deadly assassin Hornclaw and Kim Sung-cheol as her nemesis.

#TheOldWomanWithTheKnife #파과 is based film Gu Byung-mo's 2013 novel of the same name translated into English by Kim Chi-young.

Co-staring Shin Shi-a, Yeon Woo-jin, Kim Moo-yul, and Kim Kang-woo, the film is distributed internationally by  @wellgousa  Images and trailer courtesy of WellGo.

#CarolynTalks #KoreanMovie #filmreview #Action #영화리뷰

#영화파과 #이혜영 #김성철 #김무열 #연우진 #신시아

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Director and editor Miranda Yousef joined me for #CarolynTalks, to discuss her debut feature documentary ART FOR EVERYBODY about the life, work, and consumption of Thomas Kincade, one of America's and modern history's most prolific and commercialized artists.

#ArtForEverybody #FilmCritic #interview

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Documentary filmmaker Lena MacDonald joined me for #CarolynTalks to discuss her film BETRAYAL, about the life and isolation of Cindor Reeves, a man who risked and lost everything when he decided to turn state's evidence against his brother-in-law, Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia tried and convicted of committing war crimes by The Hauge.

#BetrayalDocumentary #HotDocs #FilmCritic #Interview

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For screening information on the film and the festival visit the official website at https://www.citizenminutes.ca/

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Haudenosaunee, Mohawk activist and educator Joyce Jonathan Crone joined me for the #HotDocs festival premiere of RED GIRL RISING, the documentary short about her work as an Indigenous communities advocate and founder of www.hopearises.ca.

#RedGirlRising was directed by Faith Howe and Kim Stadfeld.

#HotDocs #ShortFilm #CarolynTalks #FirstNations #interview #LandBack

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Filmmaker Lauren Melina joined me for #CarolynTalks to discuss her short film BEFORE YOU, in which a young mother Maya (Tala Ash) looking back to a past abortion and the way the perceptions of her own memories change through sound, colours, and emotions.

'Before You' costars Adam Rodrigues as Avi, Maya's husband who's own grief and anger plays a part in how Tala's emotions are coloured.

#ShortFilm #WomensRights #FilmaDirector #FilmCritic #interview

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