Ten Short Films Podcast

Tara Mühlberghuber, Charles Paquin, Ten Short Films Festival
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The Ten Short Films Podcast is the official audio companion to the Ten Short Films Festival — a one-of-a-kind nomadic festival travelling across Canada. Hosted by Canadian-Swiss cinematographer and festival co-founder Tara Mühlberghuber with Canadian camera operator and sound recordist Charles Paquin, the podcast takes you beyond the screen through candid, previously unheard conversations with the filmmakers behind the festival’s selected films. Write to us! tsf@taramuhlberghuber.com (It's easier when you break it down in 3 parts: MUHL-BERG-HUBER)

Episodes

  1. 5 hrs ago

    Episode 4: Grief, Dance, and the Stories We Carry

    In this episode of Ten Short Films Podcast, Tara Mühlberghuber continues the filmmaker conversations with Laurie Caron,  Thomas Hinse, and Hanna Brennan-Bacon, exploring how grief, memory, family, and emotional restraint can shape a film from the inside out. The discussion moves between two deeply personal creative approaches: one filmmaker reflects on grief through the story of a teacher, a child, and a parent confronting expectations, while another speaks about using dance, movement, and music to express the loss of a mother without relying on words. Together, they discuss performance, childhood memory, teaching, family relationships, choreography, golden-hour cinematography, long takes, and the delicate process of turning lived experience into cinema.

    10 min

  2. Jun 18

    Episode 3: Men and Vulnerability on Screen

    In this episode of Ten Short Films Podcast, Tara Mühlberghuber speaks with James Lessard, Delroy Goveas, Gracie Henneberry, and J-S Boyer about men’s mental health, vulnerability, love, isolation, and the emotional force behind genre storytelling. Through a candid conversation about dark, romantic creature horror, they explore how masculinity can teach men to suppress pain, how regret and grief can become terrifying inner worlds, and why checking in on people matters more than we realize. The discussion also goes behind the making of the film — from sleep paralysis and uncanny horror to visual style, local Ottawa locations, emotional performance, broken glass, improvised intensity, and the strange joy of turning personal fear into cinema.

    18 min

  3. Jun 12

    Episode 2: Documentary and Family Stories

    In this episode of Ten Short Films Podcast, Charles and Tara host a filmmaker conversation exploring documentary and family stories — films that begin close to home and grow into something much bigger than memory. Joined by Gagan Preet Singh, Tara Mühlberghuber, Nicole Bedford, and Laurie Caron, the discussion explores grandparents, parents, home, distance, grief, love, and the quiet everyday moments filmmakers capture before they disappear. From creating personal time capsules and filming the people closest to us, to the responsibility of telling real stories with honesty and care, this episode looks at how documentary can preserve not only who people are, but how it felt to be with them.

    24 min

  4. Jun 8

    Episode 1: French-Canadian Cinema: Language, Memory, and Stories Close to Home

    In this episode of Ten Short Films Podcast, Charles and Tara host a filmmaker conversation from the Ottawa edition of the Ten Short Films Festival at the Mayfair Theatre. Joined by Cristi Parpalita, Jean-Philippe Grignon, Thomas Hinse, Laurie Caron, Aisha Lasfar, Delroy Goveas, and Gracie Henneberry, the discussion explores what makes a film feel distinctly French-Canadian beyond language. From Québec’s documentary traditions and restrained visual style to absurd humour, family simplicity, nature, road trips, romance, tragedy, and films made across language barriers, this episode looks at how French-Canadian cinema finds poetry in ordinary people, intimate emotions, and stories that feel close to home.

    17 min

  5. Jun 7

    Episode 0: What Is Ten Short Films?

    In Episode Zero of the Ten Short Films Podcast, Tara and Charles introduce the story behind the Ten Short Films Festival — a nomadic Canadian festival born from Tara’s wish to screen her short film "Forget Me Not" for family and friends in honour of her grandmother. What began as one cinema screening in Kitchener soon travelled to Ottawa’s Mayfair Theatre, with curated programs, filmmaker Q&As, People’s Choice Awards, sidewalk awards ceremonies, and a growing dream: to bring short films to ten cinemas across Canada, then carry the winning films overseas. Charles and Tara discuss the festival’s origins, its love of documentaries, dramas, horror, French Canadian cinema, and the open invitation for filmmakers across Canada to submit bold, personal, memorable films.

    13 min
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The Ten Short Films Podcast is the official audio companion to the Ten Short Films Festival — a one-of-a-kind nomadic festival travelling across Canada. Hosted by Canadian-Swiss cinematographer and festival co-founder Tara Mühlberghuber with Canadian camera operator and sound recordist Charles Paquin, the podcast takes you beyond the screen through candid, previously unheard conversations with the filmmakers behind the festival’s selected films. Write to us! tsf@taramuhlberghuber.com (It's easier when you break it down in 3 parts: MUHL-BERG-HUBER)

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    Tara Mühlberghuber, Charles Paquin, Ten Short Films Festival
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  • Episodes
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