Everfall was one of the best films at Calgary Film Festival 2017!

Everfall Premiere; Q and A with Joe Perry, Producer/Actor Jayson Therrien, and Director John Kissack. SATURDAY SEPT. 23, 2017.

Eva Saint, a fallen figure skating phenom, skates for her life in this supernatural thriller from John Kissack.

Desperate to regain her winning form following a serious injury, figure skater Eva Saint (Jessica McLeod, THE HOLLOW CHILD) accepts an invite to an obscure competition in the remote mountain town of Everfall. Accompanied by her extreme sporting vlog star boyfriend Daniel (Joe Perry, THE VALLEY BELOW) and his cameraman Jordan (Kristian Jackson, A MIRACLE ON CHRISTMAS LAKE), she soon discovers that the idyllic mountain town hides somber secrets below its peaceful facade. As a nearby forest fire rages and encroaches on Everfall, Eva will find herself drawn into a supernatural intrigue which will threaten her life and challenge her to explore the darkest depths of her psyche.

Torn between a tumultuous teenage romance, the desperation to reclaim her career and the seduction of a dark revenge fantasy, Eva struggles to survive in this latest offering by director John Kissack, whose film A MIRACLE ON CHRISTMAS LAKE was one of the most popular at the 2016 Calgary International Film Festival. EVERFALL was shot in and around Calgary with local cast and crew including Kissack, writer Shaun Crawford, and producer Jayson Therrien.

Producer: Jayson Therrien, John Kissack, Sandra Quinn
Screenwriter: Shaun Crawford, John Kissack
Cinematographer: Aaron Bernakevitch
Production Design: Timothy Rutherford
Cast: Jessica McLeod, Joe Perry, Colm Feore, Kristian Jackson.

Trailer 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxLIN31dDGM

GUESTS IN ATTENDANCE

Director John Kissack, Director of Photography Aaron Bernakevitch, Executive Producer Sandra Quinn, Actor Joe Perry, and Producer | Actor Jayson Therrien was at the September 23rd screening; Director John Kissack, Producer | Actor Jayson Therrien and Actor Kristian Jackson was at the September 27 screening

Everfall Q and A with Joe Perry, Producer/Actor Jayson Therrien, and Director John Kissack.

Christina DeRosa 
interview by Blaine Schlechter

So grateful to have walked the red carpet as the Face Forward Chair Woman. Face Forward's "La Dolce Vita" Themed Gala at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel on September 22, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California." (Photo by Greg Doherty/Getty Images)

I want to thank you so much for taking the time to talk to me today, I know you’re a very busy lady, so I appreciate the time.  I would like to start talking about Face Forward and your charitable work; your role of board chairwoman for the 9th Annual Face Forward Gala.  

Interview by Blaine Schlechter

Can you tell me a bit more about the Face Forward Organization and the gala itself?

Face Forward provides free reconstructive surgery to survivors of domestic violence.  Men, women, children, we do not discriminate.  We take people from all over the world; we’ll fly people from wherever they are.  We just recently flew two girls from India.  It’s an unbelievable story, what’s happened to them.  So we help people from all over the world, we take care of not just their healing needs as far as putting them with the right counsellors, putting them with the right therapists, psychiatrists;  but also, of course, the free reconstructive surgery.  We’ll partner with other organizations, but were really the only organization looking to take care of the reconstructive surgery.  A lot of times they’ll go through something, like a mangled face or an acid attack or any kind of beating and a lot of Doctors may do just the bare minimum and maybe health care can only handle the bare minimum, but it’s not really enough for them to live a life and feel confident in this world and to go out and ask for a job and really go on living with a smile on their face.  We have plastic surgeons that are board members and directors of the board for Face Forward, but we also partner with other Doctors, whether it’s dental needs or whatever their needs may be, we’ll take care of their needs.
It’s a very good cause, I’ve never heard of anything like it, so congratulations, that’s a really good cause to get behind. 

 Tell us a little bit more about the Face Forward Gala.

The first year Face Forward was born we didn’t have a Gala, we were too small.  But the second year Face Forward was alive and thriving, we had a Gala and it was only 50 people and now, at our 9th Annual Gala that we just had in Sep 2018, we had over 600 people.  So it’s really, really just grown in ways that are just unimaginable.  Of course our fearless CEO and founder Deborah Alessi, she’s a survivor herself.  Her and her husband, Dr. David Alessi founded and began the organization over 10 years ago now, actually exactly 10 years ago, but our 9th Annual Gala that we celebrated in Sep.  Dr. David Alessi is one of the many plastic surgeons who do pro-bono work for our survivors and Deborah will find people all over the world; men, woman, children – whoever comes to us and whoever we can reach out to. About a year ago, on a recent trip to London she happened to hear the story of Andreas.  Andreas is a young man, less than 40 years old, he opened the door on, I believe it was Christmas Eve, thinking it was a UPS delivery or some kind of package being delivered and instead it was a man who threw acid all over his face.  It was a case of mistaken identity.  The man who threw the acid on Andreas’s face thought he had a different person that he was throwing the acid on.  That just kind of goes to show you that violence, domestic violence or any kind of cruel act of violence can happen to anyone.  It’s shocking to me and also not shocking at the same time unfortunately to hear these stories and go ‘oh my gosh’.  It’s everywhere and it can happen to anyone.
In addition to Face Forward, you also have some other great causes that you personally support. https://www.faceforwardla.org/

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Christina DeRose talks Face Forward and Her Booming Acting Career

Hélène Joy photo by Susan Findlay

Hélène Joy Murdoch Mysteries Star 
Interviewed by Blaine Schlechter
 
The first thing I want to say is congratulations on season 12, not many shows even make it to 10 and you guys are on 12 already! Did you imagine the first day you walked onto the set as Dr. Julia Ogden, you will still be playing her 12 seasons later?
Of course not, that’s just not how actors think (laughs). It’s normally one day at a time…one year at a time, so that’s just not something that you expect. It’s not something that you expect anywhere in the world, particularly in Canada. We just so rarely get more than three or maybe four. It’s certainly not to be expected ever.

https://www.imherewithmag.com/blog-1/h%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne-joy-murdoch-mysteries

Hélène Joy Murdoch Mysteries Star  Interviewed by Blaine Schlechter

Interviewing the gorgeous Farrah Nuff was so deep! She was so grateful and was the most out spoken artist I’ve had to date, that is actively making change for breaking down stigmas for the LGBQT community and mental health.

Without every single person in life and their true uniqueness they bring to humanity it wouldn’t be what the world it is today. Everyone is so special remember that, let’s learn never to judge and learn to truly appreciate another!

As @farrah_nuff_ says Love is Love is Love!

Thanks to the amazing star @experimentalexperience for introducing and doing photos for Farrah!

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Farrah Nuff Dance Instructor and Canadian Icon Drag Queen

Francesco Antonio On track to becoming one of Canada’s up and coming stars

 Francesco Antonio has landed a recurring character role on YouTube Premium's new original comedy series, Wayne, in what is slated to be YouTube Premium's “biggest breakout show of 2019”, according to Bleeding Cool. He will work alongside Deadpool writers, Rhett Reece and Paul Wernick, and star opposite Michaela Watkins. Wayne premiered at this year’s Tribeca TV Festival (2018). 

The ten-episode series will be premiering worldwide on January 16, 2019 on YouTube Premium. 

 Born and raised in Toronto, Francesco has received nominations in Spain for Best Actor at the Barcelona Planet Film Festival for his role in Addiction (2018). Most recently, Francesco made a splash in Las Vegas where he received four nominations from the Action On Film Festival, winning the G.I.F.T.E.D award, making it the first time the award was given to an actor in the festival's history. Francesco was also nominated in the Hollywood Dreamz International Film Festival in Las Vegas for Best Actor (Addiction, 2018) and Best Young Performer (The Joke Thief, 2018) but was awarded the prestigious, Lewis Mitchell Award for Acting for his work in Addiction.   
 
Francesco has already worked opposite legends such as Franco Nero, Danny Aiello and Giancarlo Giannini in The Neighborhood (2017). Francesco just wrapped filming for What We Do in the Shadows (2019) for FX network with Jermaine Clement. Francesco also played a memorable roll in the hit show Bad Blood (2017-2018) starring alongside Kim Coates. In 2019, Francesco is set to star in the short film Love, Sarah.

Francesco Antonio

Tennille Read stars In The New Season Of Workin' Moms Interview by @BlaineSchlec

TENNILLE READ Canadian Actress
Interview by Blaine Schlechter
Project Four PR

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In Season 1 of Workin’ Moms, fans were immersed into the hilarious yet realistic lives of four women juggling motherhood with jobs and responsibilities. At the end of season two we meet Bianca played by Tennille Read. We’re getting a crash-course in the emotions and doubts that go along with deciding to get pregnant. And, of course, we’re shown the support system Frankie (Juno Rinaldi) can supply.

“It’s a great take on motherhood and starting from the very beginning,” Read says during a recent phone chat. “The fears, the anxiety, the uncertainties, especially showing it through the eyes of a single woman. Bianca is flying solo; she isn’t partnered with anyone and she’s deciding to start a family. I think that is unique to the show and hasn’t really been explored before.” Read teases viewers will see a new side to Frankie as well, because she’s in a place of more stability and can help. (Though, it must be said, Juniper did throw a curve ball at Frankie last week.)"

I’d like to start first by congratulating you on recently joining the cast of Workin’ Moms as the character of Bianca. Can you tell us a bit about the character and what she brings to the show?

Bianca is a friend of Frankie’s…their friendship was established in season 2, just at the end there, and she becomes Frankie’s friend. She is warm hearted and very generous; and she’s kind of courageous because she’s decided to be a single parent and Frankie kind of brings her under her wing since Frankie’s been through pregnancy and stuff before. I think what Bianca beings to the show is this new type of motherhood; someone who is flying solo with the process of getting pregnant and the challenges that come up within that.

Speaking of Frankie, you and fellow actress Juno Rinaldi have some great on screen chemistry, how did the two of you build that up so quickly?

(Laughs) How did we build that up so quickly? I think Juno and I are just pretty easy going people in general and so chatting with her off screen was really easy and so it kind of just translates very easily on camera as well.

It definitely comes across as some great chemistry and its fun to watch. Was it hard joining a TV show that is already established and showing some success?

It wasn’t, because everyone’s just super nice. I think it helped that most of the scenes that I started off shooting earlier in block 1 were just with Frankie, so it was a lot of one-on-one. I got to get to know a lot of the crew; there were familiar faces in the crew that I had worked with on past shows where I was doing those day player roles and there were a few of them like that so it was very comfortable to be on the set because I already knew them, so that was great. And over the few months that we were shooting, every so often I would run into a cast member that I wouldn’t have a scene with, or if I did it was very brief…like in hair and make-up or something. Like Dani Kind comes to mind, and she’s just so personable and nice. We could immediately start chatting like friends and that was across the board with a lot of the members. Also, Sarah McVie, who plays Val on the show, she lives in my building (laughs), so I got to know her before I started shooting season 3. So all these little connections helped make that transition onto the show smooth.

Tennille Read stars In The New Season Of Workin' Moms Interview by BlaineSchlec

Congratulations on your new segment on CBC – Power of Your Voice. That’s so exciting. Tell us about the segment and what listeners can expect when they tune in?

I’m a music student…I’m still in school studying voice at Memorial (University) with Edward Mark Murphy and basically what we’re doing is we go up to unsuspecting people in the street; preferably those without a musical background but we don’t really know until we chat with them, but must people I’ve spoken with have not had a musical background and we give them a quick voice lesson; a quick crash course on how to sing. People are really scared when they see me coming with a mike. People have been good sports about it, but there’s also people who kind of run the other way, which is to be expected. We give them a quick 5 minute crash course in how to sing and then at the end everyone sings a piece of a song, then we put together all of the clips of people singing the song and then we fade into the actual song. So it’s a really fun segment; its upbeat, it’s satirical, it’s just a fun experience for viewers and for people involved.

Jill Power Podcast On CBC – Power of Your Voice

Michael Shanks stars in Unspeakable. Photo by CBC, Jeff Weddell & PR  Sharon Warren

Unspeakable airs it’s finale on CBC on Wed Feb. 27th. You can catch up on all the episodes on the CBC Gem app and online.

MICHAEL SHANKS - UNSPEAKABLE  
Q and A by Blaine Schlechter

You star as ‘Will Sanders’ in the CBC show Unspeakable which has its season finale on Wed Feb 27th. For those who haven’t been following or are planning on doing some binge watching to catch up on CBC Gem…tell us a bit about the show?

The series mostly focuses on a couple of families in the 1980’s who both have children that were/are hemophiliacs who, through the Canadian tainted blood scandal, one of them contracts Hep C and the other one contracts the AIDS virus. 

It’s about the fallout and the fight against the institutions that allowed it to happen. It sort of explains it to the larger population bases that really didn’t know too much about what was going on about how these families dealt with it and are still dealing with it and how lives were affected during that time frame.

s there anything you can share about the finale or is it best to just tune in and watch it?

I think after the first seven (episodes) it’s hard, there’s so many different story lines going on. I say it’s mostly about these two families, (but) there is a large number of people that sort of get picked up along the way that all the parties are dealing with, both friends and people that are associated with the battle; nurses and lab techs and others that are part of it. It’s kind of best to tune into it, but obviously for anybody that can’t it’s best to watch it all the way through, otherwise it’s kind of hard to pick it up on the fly. There’s so many different threads that’s ongoing, and it takes place over a 25 year period, so it’s quite a complicated story that way.

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Unspeakable's Strong Michael Shanks

Starring Stacey Iseman, Taeo Soleil Levine, Philip Lortie, Alastair Martil, Keisha Prince.  Written and Directed by Andrea Moodie & James Blokland.

 Q and A by Blaine Schlechter

SYNOPSIS: 

When Alice launches her website '52 Words for Love', posting a new synonym for love each week for a year, she inadvertently sends a ripple through her social network and discovers more about her relationships than she initially anticipated.

Combining documentary interviews with narrative drama, '52 WORDS FOR LOVE' offers a humorous, moving meditation on what it means to grapple with the intricacies and complexities of intimacy.

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/movie/52-words-for-love/id1450313926

Stacey Iseman of 52 Words For Love

Brandon Rhiness Is A Rising Edmonton Filmmaker


One look at your resume and it’s easy to see that you are a busy guy. Let’s talk about one of your recent projects – Hot Box. What can you tell us about it?

I originally wanted to shoot a feature length movie that I would direct myself; of course we didn’t have a lot of money so the idea was it was originally going to take place all in and around a car. There’s a car at some sort of house party or bush party and people would go to this car to smoke weed. All this drama and comedy would happen inside and around the car. That’s where it started, but it stated morphing into a bigger story where we would have inside stuff too, inside the house party, and so me and my co-producers started adding storylines and funny things that could happen and next thing you know it’s kind of taking on a life of its own and became a big story. A lot of it happens in a car, but a lot of it happens inside this house too and there’s all these intersecting storylines…kind of like love stories and a few other funny stuff, like a band breaking up and there’s a guy that’s trying to propose to his girlfriend and doesn’t realize that she’s cheating on him and there’s a drug dealer that’s having a crisis of conscience and decides that he wants to help the environment instead of being a drug dealer and all these funny, intersecting stories. That’s how it all came about.

https://www.imherewithmag.com/blog-1/brandon-rhiness-rising-edmonton-filmmaker

Brandon Rhiness Rising Edmonton Filmmaker

DEVERY JACOBS stars in American Gods which aired this Sunday Match 10 on Star TV and March 11th on Amazon Prime Video.

Standing Up For What Is 
Diverse and Right Is Actress Devery Jacobs

Devery Jacobs' Q and A by Blaine Schlechter

You have a very successful week with two shows premiering almost at the same time! Let’s start with the Netflix Original series that just debuted this week – THE ORDER.  You play the character of LILITH BATHORY…tell us a little about the character and about what viewers can expect when they watch the show?

Yes, it seems like all of the projects I’ve done recently are coming together all at once!  Lilith is a bad ass.  She is a double agent between the two sworn secret societies.  Lilith is really like not having this guy; she hates the order, she doesn’t agree with what Jack’s doing, but even though she’s kind of a tough character with a bit of a mean streak and some blood lust, she’s also a really good friend deep down.  It was a really fun journey in exploring such a sassy character.  It’s a fun show.

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Standing Up For What Is Right Is Actress Devery Jacobs

February 26th principal Photography has officially commenced in Toronto for “The Marijuana Chronicles,” written and directed by Craig Pryce  (The Good Witch Franchise, PSI Factor, Goosebumps, HBO’s The Dark, Zack Files, Life with Derek). Pryce received four Directors Guild nominations and two Gemini nominations and directed episodes of “Dark Oracle”, a series that won an International Emmy. This is Pryce's third feature film.  

“The Marijuana Chronicles” is based on a true story that took place in 1972 over 98 days. It studies the scientific, social and physical effects of Marijuana use during an all-female group study. Pryce optioned this story from investigative reporter Diana Zlomislic, who acts as story consultant.  

Director and writer Craig Pryce says, "After discovering Diana’s fascinating research on the bizarre and unethical experiments studying the effects of marijuana on females in Toronto 1972, I knew it would make for a fascinating movie. I'm very excited to tell this true story that focuses on five young women and how they used their unique strengths, resilience and friendship to overcome adversity despite several agendas imposed on them during their days in virtual captivity.”

“The Marijuana Chronicles” features an all Canadian female leading cast including Julia Stone (Weirdos, Wet Bum, The Killing, Everything will be Fine), Morgan Kohan (Ransom, Star Trek Discovery, Kim's Convenience), Tymika Tafari (Murdoch Mysteries), Brittany Bristow (Royal Matchmaker, Wildlife Quest, Shadowtown), and Kyla Young (Alias Grace). Luke Bilyk (Degrassi, Kiss & Cry) and Greg Calderone (Heroes Reborn, Saving Hope) will also play in the film.

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Director Craig Pryce and Stars Brittany Bristow and Luke Bilyk The Marijuana Chronicles Film

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