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The Royal Canadian Movie Podcast is standing on guard for Canadian film. Each week Becky Shrimpton and Cameron Maitland invite a special guest to choose a Canadian film they love. We research, discuss, review, and summarize the films and help listeners find the weird, the award winning, and the wilds of Canadian Film.

The Royal Canadian Movie Podcast The Royal Canadian Movie Podcast

    • TV & Film
    • 5.0 • 17 Ratings

The Royal Canadian Movie Podcast is standing on guard for Canadian film. Each week Becky Shrimpton and Cameron Maitland invite a special guest to choose a Canadian film they love. We research, discuss, review, and summarize the films and help listeners find the weird, the award winning, and the wilds of Canadian Film.

    Dreamland (2020) with Bruce McDonald

    Dreamland (2020) with Bruce McDonald

    This week - a giant treat! We’re talking to iconic Canadian filmmaker BRUCE MCDONALD about his film Dreamland and his storied career!

    Where do you start in describing a movie like Dreamland? Maybe starting with reassembling the team behind the spectacular “Pontypool” - writer Tony Burgess, the inimitable Stephen McHattie and the charming Lisa Houle. Then it adds the scenery of Luxembourg and Belgium, Vampires, child-brides, gun-toting gangs of children, and totally unhinged performances by Henry Rollins and Juliet Lewis. Then maybe, just maybe, you can start to understand what you’re in for when you sit down to watch Dreamland.

    Don’t worry, we make sure to ask a few more burning questions - like what’s going on with those Pontypool sequels and has Bruce seen “Crime Wave”?

    Dreamland is available to rent/buy right now on iTunes or stream on VOD from your local cable provider.

    • 25 min
    Stateless (2020) with Michèle Stephenson

    Stateless (2020) with Michèle Stephenson

    Continuing in our Hot Docs at Home series, we’re speaking with documentarian Michèle Stephenson about her thought-provoking “Stateless”.

    There’s plenty to chew on in this film about a young attorney named Rosa Iris, and her battle against electoral corruption when citizens of the Dominican Republic are having their citizenship stripped away - leaving them stateless.

    Simultaneously a nuanced and powerful portrait of a specific social crisis in the Dominican Republic and Haiti and a reflection of thoughts and issues going on right now across the world when it comes to immigrants and nationalism - don’t miss Michèle Stephenson’s conversation stimulating film.

    Stateless is part of the Hot Docs at Home Festival 2020! Enjoy right now by visiting the link right here:

    https://boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=125173~741853d5-bf72-40a5-a015-09aded779383&epguid=8096360b-ce32-4b75-868d-893fb4337e9d&

    • 23 min
    Wintopia (2020) with Mira Burt-Wintonick

    Wintopia (2020) with Mira Burt-Wintonick

    We’re kicking off our Hot Docs at Home coverage with a film about a Canadian documentary icon - Peter Wintonick. Today, we’re speaking to Mira Burt-Wintonic about her deeply moving “Wintopia”.

    Tasked with finishing her celebrated father’s film about Utopia after his passing, Mira sorts through around 300 dusty video cassettes her father shot on his years of global travel as he searched for “Utopia”. What she assembles may not be what her father intended, but it’s something, heartfelt, personal, and deeply relatable.

    Wintopia is part of the Hot Docs at Home Festival 2020! Enjoy with those you love by visiting the link right here:

    https://boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=125196~741853d5-bf72-40a5-a015-09aded779383&epguid=8096360b-ce32-4b75-868d-893fb4337e9d&

    • 21 min
    Meat the Future (2020) with Liz Marshall

    Meat the Future (2020) with Liz Marshall

    This week, Becky sits down with noted documentarian Liz Marshall to discuss her latest thought-provoking feature documentary "Meat the Future”

    Meat the Future was meant to be screening at this year’s Hot Docs festival, but due to extenuating circumstances, you can now watch it on CBC Gem FOR FREE as part of the HotDocs at Home series.

    And boy do we recommend it - Chronicling the birth of an industry, Meat the Future is a close-up and personal look at the visionaries who are risking everything to innovate and produce real meat without slaughtering animals and without environmental destruction. Follow Dr. Uma Valeti and his team at Memphis Meats as they face challenges in regulation, ethics, and the very limits of scientific knowledge as they pursue the next frontier of food-based innovation that could change the world for the better.

    Regardless of how you feel about genetically engineered food - Meat the Future is sure to inspire conversation and deep thought.

    You can watch Meat the Future on CBC Gem right now.

    • 21 min
    Polytechnique (2009) and Castle in the Ground (2020) with Joey Klein

    Polytechnique (2009) and Castle in the Ground (2020) with Joey Klein

    This week, Becky sits down with writer/director Joey Klien to discuss both Denis Villeneuve’s Polytechinque as well as his newest film Castle in the Ground - which will be available to rent or stream starting May 15th

    We’ve covered Joey’s work before back in 2016 when we talked about his challenging drama The Other Half and we’ve discussed Polytechnique from a more technical perspective with producer Don Carmody last year. We had wanted to revisit the film in more detail and Joey, with his thoughtfulness and empathy was the perfect person to do that with. He’s also excellent at discussing how plots come together, how to keep the conversation going about social issues and topics, and how to give love back into the world.

    A quick content warning. This episode deals with topics like addiction, mental health, and mass shootings and may not be suitable for all listeners.

    • 34 min
    A Message From Becky

    A Message From Becky

    A Message From Becky

    • 1 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
17 Ratings

17 Ratings

T.Odette ,

Brilliant

Keep on keeping on. It’s wonderful to have this informative and well produced podcast on Canadian cinema. And as a Canadian Filmmaker, it’s reassuring to know there is a corner in the virtual universe blowing the horn for Canadian cinema.

Skycam1989 ,

Canadian Movies Rock!

It's so great to hear Canadian actors, film makers and entertainers talking up Canadian movies.
We tend to eat our young when it comes to folks who make it big.
Becky Shrimpton and Cameron Maitland are awesome hosts of this show. They draw out the story behind the film.
Becky is so full of insight, energy and enthusiasm about this industry. Cameron is more laid back but equally interesting.
There are so many more movies I want to hear discussed. But if either of our intrepid hosts hit it big I hope they will hand off the reigns to some other Canadian Movie enthusiasts.
I hope the rest of us don't eat our young.

GorjanV ,

"That movie was Canadian??"

That was my reaction to scrolling through the list of films discussed on this podcast. This show is a wealth of knowledge on all things Canadian, film, and Canadian film! Even film aficionados will have a hard time keeping up with topics and references Becky and Cam bring up every week. Whether it's an episode on a film you've seen before and loved, or are discovering a new flick, this show is a great listen!

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