Film, Theatre and Arts-at-large coverage. Home base www.ciut.fm or CIUT 89.5FM Sundays 1-2pm (EST). You can find me on socials: FB/IG/Bluesky @tmtmwithdonnag
My chat with Sandra Laronde, Executive and Artistic director of Red Sky Performance about founding the indigenous dance company and about its latest creation, "Miigus: Underwater Panther" based on an…
Steve Gravestock has curated the best of the best in northern cinema ― the countries he focused on during his tenure at TIFF. The films in the series reflect the screenings Steve programmed year-rou…
Ready for some wild trippiness? Steve Gravestock, departing Senior Programmer of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on the opening films of his specially curated series, "Seen the North,"…
Get cozy and listen to a few audiobook samples using the Libby app and your local public library. In respect of copyright, all samples played are limited to what you would hear on the app. Music at t…
A look back @dbiyounganitafrika and her work in @dakinkinmyhair (ticket promo offered at the end of our chat thanks to @tolivegram- until Dec 23, 2022 ) her cd #wombanifesto. In 2010 I wrote of her c…
A quick chat with Amai Kuda about her new release, EmUrgency! Featuring tracks "Oshun" "Eshu" and "Which Way."
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Featured guests: Juno-Award Nominees Alex Bird and Ewen Farncombe talk about their new release, "Songwriter." Playlist consists of tracks from the album.
My chat with Laurie Evan Fraser & Jacinto Salcedo about Upper Canada Choristers concert on Dec. 2, 2022.
Laurie is a composer and the co-founder of UCC where she is the Artistic Director and Conductor…
I have interviews with fabulous award winners in their respective fields: @alexandrapetkovski media music composer (Better at Texting) and #RayEllenwood, translator and author lauded for his work in …
Guests Adam Seelig and Kanika Ambrose join me to discuss their latest ventures.
Adam is a poet, playwright, stage director, and the founder and artistic director of One Little Goat Theatre Company. W…
Mark Tara and Heidy M and I finally reveal our #TIFF2022 favourites and Andréa Picard and I discuss Lost and Beautiful: New Italian Cinema, screening at the #TIFFBellLightbox until the end of the mon…
Audiobook thrillers and horrors that you can borrow with your library card using Libby
I used the #libbyapp via my Toronto Public Library card.
Note: Mature content warning for this show as these are a…
My chat with #AkiTakabatake founder of the new distribution company @momofilmsinc about the launch of her first acquisition @mysmallland dir by #EmmaKawakada.
#JapaneseFilms
#KurdsInJapan
#KurdishRefug…
My reunion with #OscarNominee @volkerbertelmann_official on composing music for #AllQuietOnTheWesternFront and #WarSailor (#TIFF2022) + an excerpt from my #TIFF2016 with Volker (aka @hauschkamusic) a…
Kirk Cooper @filmmarketaccess on Durham International Film Festival @catchthedriff, @djennielaguerre on Manman la mer @theatrefrancais and Chris A Cummings on @markerstarling opening for #StereoLab
Episode 3
Mark Tara from Rainbow Country Talks with Emmy nominated filmmaker Vera Drew about her latest movie The People's Joker, an illegal QUEER coming of age comic book movie.
I chat with South Amer…
Mark Tara (Rainbow Country), Daniel Garber (CIUT's Critic's Circle) and me repping CIUT 89.5 FM at #TIFF2022.
EPISODE 2
I share my interview with Stephanie Johnes, director of Maya and the Wave.
Mark…
My chat with director/writers Carolina Markowicz about her dark social satire, Charcoal, set in the countryside of Sao Paulo, Stephanie Johnes on her doc about Brazilian giant-wave surfer, Maya Ribei…
On EPISODE 1
Film critic Daniel Garber from Critic's Circle Shares his interview with Gaspar Noé director of 2015's Love.
I share my 2021 interview with Jean Luc Herbulot director of Saloum.
Mark Tara f…
My interviews w/ John Barker dir #TheUmbrellaMen and v.t nayani dir #ThisPlace