Enrico Colantoni is a Canadian actor & director, best known for portraying Elliot DiMauro in the sitcom Just Shoot Me!, Keith Mars on the television series Veronica Mars, Louis Lutz on the short-lived sitcom Hope & Gloria, crime lord Carl Elias on Person of Interest, and Sergeant Greg Parker on the television series Flashpoint. More recently, he starred as Allen Conner in Remedy. He played Laura Hollis's father in season three of the online web series Carmilla. He appeared in HBO's Westworld revival and in Station Eleven.

 

Colantoni was born in Toronto, Ontario. He attended the University of Toronto studying psychology and sociology, but transferred to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. Colantoni graduated from the Yale School of Drama, winning the Carol Dye Award.

 

Janette caught up with Colantoni at the 10th Annual Vaughan International Film Festival’s Gala Awards Red Carpet to talk about how the festival is making it easier for today’s talent to pursue their film & TV goals and dreams, how he was able to go from Toronto to Hollywood & Broadway, recently starring with Will & Grace’s Debra Messing in Birthday Candles, his upcoming projects, and more!

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Canadian Journalist, Elliotte Friedman began his broadcast career for Toronto sports radio station The Fan 590 in 1994. He did play-by-play for Toronto Raptors games on both radio and television, and did freelance work for the London Free Press and the Toronto Star.

Friedman was awarded the Telemedia Reporter of the Year award in 1996. 

 

Friedman then worked for The Score network before joining CBC Sports in 2003. At CBC, Friedman was a reporter for Hockey Night in Canada. In 2011, Friedman received the Best Sports Reporting Gemini Award for his efforts on Hockey Night in Canada's Heritage Classic. 

 

After Rogers Media acquired exclusive national media rights to the NHL and began producing Hockey Night for CBC, Friedman was hired by Sportsnet to continue his role.

 

It was a true honor to be the ONLY accredited media at Ben-Gurion University Toronto’s The Future is Now Gala Featuring Actor Michael J. Fox? Cand granted the chance to meet and interview Elliotte who served as event moderator. In our interview he shared what made him pursue journalism as a career, how he became involved in the event, how he prepared to lead the discussion with Michael J. Fox, his insights into Ben-Gurion University’s growth & development, and much more!

My Interview with Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman, The Future is Now Gala, Featuring Michael J. Fox

This November, I interviewed the late Mark Mendelson, CEO of BGU Canada at Ben-Gurion University Toronto’s The Future Is Now Gala Featuring Actor Michael J. Fox. Although it was our first-time meeting, Mark’s fundraising in Canada for Israel-based institutions and other successes as a leader in the Jewish Community was evident. Sadly, he suddenly passed away in Montreal at the age of 73, just days after the event.

Mark served as the CEO of Ben-Gurion University Canada for the past 12 years. Previously, he was the executive director of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) for Eastern Canada for 17 years.

Known for his signature navy blazer and moustache, his love of family, good food & wine, art, cooking and entertainment, Mark had a larger-than-life personality.

His work and devotion to BGU Canada was also apparent - having expanded its presence across Canada and increasing the amount of money raised. Despite the limitations of the pandemic, Mark recently reported to supporters that the organization had had a record financial year.

Making BGU, Israel’s youngest university in the developing Negev Desert, become better known in Canada, became Mark’s true mission.

Mark shares how BGU transformed into a dynamic university becoming Israel’s fastest-growing university at the forefront of medical research & development with its Medical Simulation Building, enrolling over 20,000 Jewish, Palestinian & Arab students each year, the impact its research has on autism, and much more!

In Memory of a Passionate Fundraiser My Conversation with the Late Mark Mendelson, CEO of BGU Canada

BGU is Israel’s youngest university in the developing Negev Desert. It is quickly transforming into a dynamic university and becoming Israel’s fastest-growing university. In this episode, Janette talks with Jack Altman, President, BGU CANADA, David Dulberg and Naomi Oelbaum, Event Co-Chairs of  Ben-Gurion University Toronto’s The Future is Now Gala Featuring Actor Michael J. Fox about how the event came together, what they wanted attendees to get out of it, why BGU is at the forefront of medical research & development with its Medical Simulation Building, enrolling over 20,000 Jewish, Palestinian & Arab students each year, the impact its research has worldwide, and what makes BGU a school for sustainability and climate change.

Janette’s interviews with Jack Altman, President, BGU CANADA, David Dulberg & Naomi Oelbaum

The Fabelmans is a 2022 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, who co-wrote and co-produced it with Tony Kushner. The film is a semi-autobiographical story loosely based on Spielberg's adolescence and first years as a filmmaker, told through an original story of the fictional Sammy Fabelman, a young aspiring filmmaker who explores how the power of films can help him see the truth about his dysfunctional family and those around him. It stars Gabriel LaBelle as Sammy, alongside Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, and Judd Hirsch in supporting roles.

The Fabelmans had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2022, where it won the People's Choice Award. The film received widespread critical acclaim for the performances of the cast, Spielberg's direction, the screenplay, cinematography, and John Williams' musical score. It was named one of the top ten films of 2022 by the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute.

The film received five nominations at the 80th Golden Globe Awards in 2023, winning Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Director for Spielberg. It also received 11 nominations at the 28th Critics' Choice Awards, including Best Picture, winning Best Young Performer for LaBelle. 

In this episode, I take you behind-the-scenes with Steven Spielberg and the cast at the Fabelmans at its TIFF premiere, where even more about Steven’s life & family, beginnings as a filmmaker, and casting decisions, are revealed.

Behind-the-Scenes at TIFF with Steven Spielberg & the Cast of The Fabelmans

Happy February!  In honor of Valentine’s Day, this month, our episodes are focused on all things LOVE. This includes love that isn’t always good for us. As is the case in the short movie, Love, Sick – A Story of Toxic Love, Written, Produced, & Directed, by the Emmy and Webby award-winning, Christopher Klimovski.  I had the pleasure of meeting and interviewing ‘Klimovski’ as he prefers to be called, in Vaughan, Ontario, at The Vaughan International Film Festival’s, International Short Filming Screenings where Love, Sick premiered. Have to admit, the film was chilling to the core. And I wouldn’t expect anything less from Klimovski.  Have you been through a painful breakup and experienced heartbreak? Or ever missed someone so much that you felt sick? What about a strong sense of yearning for a person who didn’t feel the same way? Then you know that this experience is real and hurts.  Love, Sick the movie takes this feeling up a notch. The story centers on two people who want to be together, and simply can’t without destroying each other.  But not for the usual, cliché reasons. Klimovski and I chat about what provoked him to make this movie and explore the dark and very toxic side of love.

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Love, Sick – A Story of Toxic Love

As we continue to honor Valentine’s Day and all things LOVE, this week’s episode features the amazing story in first-time author, Danielle Kaplan’s book, I Married A Thrill-Seeker: A Cautious Wife’s Memoir of Her Husband’s Risk-Taking and Their Long Road to Recovery. For fans of memories of trauma and recovery and for anyone living and loving a risk-taker, comes one man’s struggle to overcome a one percent chance at survival as told through the eyes of his wife, his high school sweetheart, who was his greatest ally. The book recalls the tale of Danielle’s type-A and adrenaline-junkie husband, Stephen Kaplan — former CFO and CEO of Deciem Beauty Group — as he sets off to take one last solo road trip on his motorcycle, from Toronto, Ontario to near Fairbanks, Alaska. Danielle knows it’s the last ‘adrenaline rush’ trip he’ll take on the bike–he’s promised to give it up for good. 

 

On the other hand, Steve expected to make it home with no drama, no unnecessary risks, just the freedom of the open road and the wind on his face. But after hitting a pothole while driving at a high speed in rain at dusk, it’s the ending neither of them dreamed of when he crashes on a remote highway in the Yukon, he can’t move, and its hours before he can receive medical treatment.

 

In this candid interview, Danielle and I sat down to discuss how this event changed her, her husband’s and her children’s lives in an instant, how she came to terms with Steve’s adrenaline-junkie antics & found an appreciation for it amidst having to make unbearable decisions, experiencing miraculous moments, how as a former speech pathologist she became her husband’s greatest advocate - fighting by his side the entire time, through every step forward and step back as Steve regained his health and lots more in what can only be described as a true testament of luck, love, and incredible fortitude given Steve’s injuries that left him with a less than one percent survival rate.

Danielle Kaplan, Author of the Book I Married A Thrill-Seeker:

Carrying on with all things LOVE in our Month of LOVE series, this week’s episode features the British romantic comedy-drama Film -  What’s Love Got to Do With It? The film covers the topics of arranged or assisted marriage and interfaith marriage.

 

Winner of Best Comedy at the 2022 Rome Film Fest and scheduled to soon hit movie theatres in Great Britain (Feb.24th) and North America, the film directed by multi-award-winner, Shekhar Kapur(Elizabeth, Bandit Queen), and written & produced by Jemima Goldsmith Khan, the movie is set between London and Lahore. 

It documents a filmmaker’s childhood friend & neighbour's arranged marriage to a bride from Pakistan. It is based on Jemima’s own mixed marriage (she was formerly married to Pakistani politician and former cricket captain, Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi, who later served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan). The star-studded cast includes Lily James (Lady Rose in Downton Abbey, Pam in Pam & Tommy) alongside British & Pakistani Actors, Models, Comedians and Musicians Shazad Latif, Shabana Azmi, Emma Thompson, Sajal Aly, Oliver Chris, Asim Chaudhry, Jeff Mirza, Alice Orr-Ewing, and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.

I caught up with some of them at the film’s world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10th, 2022, to discuss the concept of arranged & assisted marriages, the pluses & minuses of them, what attracted these stars to their roles, and lots more!

TIFF Red Carpet Premiere, Actress Lily James & Cast of the Film What’s Love Got to Do With It?

Conception: written, directed, and produced by Tarun Verma – comedian and former fertility pharmacist, who has seen it all with couples struggling with IVF. Conception is the final episode in our month of LOVE. 

 

This fictional drama-documentary movie tells the story of Vic and Ami, who are living the quintessentially perfect married life. Living in the city, working high powered jobs, but their world turns upside down when they attempt to start a family and can't get pregnant and have to resort to IVF. 

 

The journey of IVF tests their marriage and begs the question... how far will you go to have a baby?

 

In this episode, I sit down with Tarun Verma and the movie’s lead actors: Kareem Ghuneim (from Divorcish), and Simren Lalan (from Ghost Story Chronicles) to discuss the movie’s theme, how emotionally & financially draining IVF can be, the strain that it puts on a marriage, and the couple’s values, what not being able to get pregnant can mean to a woman & man’s identity and self-esteem amidst family & cultural pressures, and much more!

Conception – The Documentary Film That Asks: How Far Will You Go to Have a Baby

Take a trip down memory lane with all your favorite Disney characters at the Disney Animation Immersive Experience at Lighthouse Immersive Studios Toronto. Extended by popular demand, this exhibit, featuring 500,000 cubic feet of projections, takes you through the 100 years of Disney’s Animation Studios history - everything from Snow White to Peter Pan and from Frozen to Encanto. 

 

Swim through a sea of bubbles alongside Ariel and stroll through a sparkling snowfall with Elsa. Interactive elements include responsive projections that move with the audience and twinkling bracelets that light up in sync with the show.

 

This experiential venue design by Emmy-winner and Tony-nominated designer David Korins (Hamilton) includes a multi-room pre-show exhibit dedicated to the history of Disney Animation and their animators.

 

In this episode, I talk with Co-Producer, Academy Award-Winner J. Miles Dale (The Shape of Water, Nightmare Alley, Antlers, The Strain) about all the considerations & challenges that went into brining this experience to life, what guests can expect to see & take away from the exhibit, the inspiration behind it, and so much more!

The Disney Animation Immersive Experience Toronto with Co-Executive Producer, J. Miles Dale

At just 11 years old. Roberta Battaglia is living her dreams. Just a few months ago, the Woodbridge, ON native, made to the finals, placing fourth in ‘America’s Got Talent’, impressing judges Simon Cowell, Heidi Klum and Howie Mandel. She even received the Golden Buzzer from new judge Sophia Vergara, formerly of ABC’s hit sitcom, Modern Family. As of December 16th (after this interview was made), Roberta’s audition video of her singing Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s song “Shallow” from the movie A Star Is Born has received over 37 million views and 730K likes. Roberta also comes up 12th in the most popular YouTube searches of 2020. In this episode, Janette sits down with her to talk about what it was like preparing for her big moment, how she keeps it real, overcoming bullying, what she has in-store, and more! 
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While we will soon enjoy safe and affordable travels that enrich our mind & souls and help support Canada’s local trade & tourism, until lockdown ends, in this episode, Janette takes you to Niagara Falls, Ontario, on a magical tour inside Ripley’s Believe It or Not. Meet Regional Manager Canada, Ripley Entertainment, Peter Doyle and experience some of the world’s most incredible wonders.  Subscribe to Janette’s TV YouTube Channel and Hit the #BELL to be Notified of ALL our Upcoming Season 10 Episodes! https://www.youtube.com/c/JanetteBurkeJanettesTV/videos

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