Episodes

  • S2 Ep11: Winnie Luk, Disability Screen Office Executive Director

    S2 Ep11: Winnie Luk, Disability Screen Office Executive Director
    Oct 30 2025
    "Universal design is really putting a lens of bringing everyone along with us on this journey...it is really truly thinking that everyone in the sector has value."

    With 30 years of experience as an advocate and activist for accessibility rights, Winnie Luk was appointed in June 2023 as the Disability Screen Office's inaugural Executive Director. She joins us today to share some of the inspirational work she has done to raise awareness for accessibility rights in the motion picture industry. Pull up an Apple Box, and let's talk!
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    59 mins
  • S2: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

    S2: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
    Sep 29 2025
    Please see the following resources to honour the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation:
    • Listen to the Woven Spirit: Threads of Wisdom podcast – an Indian Residential School Survivors Society Podcast episode.
    • The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation has free education opportunities available.
    • Here on Apple Box Talks, we interviewed residential school survivor Bruce Allan in September 2022, and City of Burnaby Director of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation Mikelle Sasakamoose earlier this year for National Indigenous Peoples Day.
    • The BC Federation of Labour has released a statement on the importance of reconciliation, which you can read here.
    NDTR events taking place on September 30:
    • Lower Mainland: Grandview Park Community Event hosted by Vancouver Aboriginal Health Society and Vancouver Aboriginal Child and Family Services Society; National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: Empowering Voices Through Art Workshops – in partnership with Place des Arts; Walking Together – Truth & Reconciliation Day at Burnaby Village Museum.
    • Whistler/Squamish: Skwxwú7mesh and Líl̓wat7úl Cultural Centre National Day for Truth and Reconciliation event.
    • Online: Remembering the Children: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation – live broadcast from Parliament Hill in Ottawa, 12:00 pm PST (via CBC).
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    1 min
  • S2 Ep10: Carole Griffin & Sam Stroman, Award-Winning 891 Costume Members

    S2 Ep10: Carole Griffin & Sam Stroman, Award-Winning 891 Costume Members
    Sep 25 2025
    Today, we welcome to the Apple Box two award-winning members of the 891 Costume Department, Carole Griffin and Sam Stroman! Carole and Sam were both part of the hugely successful production Shōgun, with Emmy and CAFTCAD awards among their individual accolades. They join us behind the mic to talk about their Shōgun experiences and motion picture journeys.

    Pull up an Apple Box, and let's talk!
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    49 mins
  • S2 Ep9: Rob Ashton, ILWU Canada President

    S2 Ep9: Rob Ashton, ILWU Canada President
    Aug 21 2025
    **WARNING: This podcast contains some coarse language. Listener discretion is advised.**

    With workers' rights and the labour movement in the news at the federal level, and with Labour Day on the horizon, we're joined on the Apple Box by ILWU Canada President, and prominent labour community voice, Rob Ashton. First elected Vice President of ILWU Canada in 2012, Rob became President in 2016, and now represents 17,000 workers in BC and Saskatchewan. Also serving as a Vice President for the BC Federation of Labour, Rob sits down to talk to us about what it means to show up in the union world. Pull up an Apple Box, and let's talk!
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    51 mins
  • S2 Ep8: Barbara Lee, Vancouver Asian Film Festival Founder

    S2 Ep8: Barbara Lee, Vancouver Asian Film Festival Founder
    Jul 17 2025
    "The work that we do is just talking about our value and our worth...supporting and empowering and elevating the Asian diaspora and the racialized diaspora in North America. And I'm not gonna wait for you to say that what we bring is valuable because we know we're valuable."

    Today on the Apple Box we're joined by local activist, advocate, and artist Barbara Lee. Barbara has been an inspirational voice in BC's motion picture community, advocating for racial equity and representation at every level of production. She founded the Vancouver Asian Film Festival, which celebrates its 29th year in 2025, and leads both the Racial Equity Screen Office and the East by Northwest Global Creative Summit. Pull up an Apple Box, and let's talk!

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    41 mins
  • S2 Ep7: Mikelle Sasakamoose, Director of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation

    S2 Ep7: Mikelle Sasakamoose, Director of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation
    Jun 19 2025
    **WARNING: This podcast contains discussion of sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised.**

    "We want people to be able to enjoy and celebrate our culture, our rich and vibrant cultures—plural—and languages...that's really what I see June and National Indigenous Peoples Day being about."

    In honour of June being National Indigenous Peoples History Month, our newest Apple Box Talks podcast features local activist and school board trustee Mikelle Sasakamoose—the first ever Director of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation for the City of Burnaby. Pull up an Apple Box, and let's talk.

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    50 mins
  • S2 Ep6: Marnie Gee, BC Film Commissioner, and Leslie Wootton, Screen BC Executive Director

    S2 Ep6: Marnie Gee, BC Film Commissioner, and Leslie Wootton, Screen BC Executive Director
    May 22 2025
    "Our job is to make sure that it's a world-class experience to film in British Columbia...we're 'shot locally, seen globally.'"

    Today, we're joined on the Apple Box by two leaders in the BC motion picture industry: BC Film Commissioner Marnie Gee, and Screen BC Executive Director Leslie Wootton. For a deep dive into some of the behind-the-scenes collaboration it takes to bring productions to our province, pull up an Apple Box, and let's talk!

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    56 mins
  • S2 Ep5: Spencer Chandra Herbert, BC Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture, and Sport

    S2 Ep5: Spencer Chandra Herbert, BC Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture, and Sport
    Apr 16 2025
    Joining us today on the Apple Box is BC's Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture, and Sport, Spencer Chandra Herbert. First elected provincially in 2008 as the youngest MLA in the Legislature, the Minister is now the representative for Vancouver–West End, and has been a long-term advocate for renters' rights, environmental stewardship, and protections in the BC Human Rights Code for members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.

    Plus, the Minister has a deep-rooted connection to the BC motion picture industry — as a child, he was a background extra on the set of Legends of the Fall! Pull up an Apple Box, and let's talk!
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    20 mins