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David Voigt
In The Seats with...

Where we sit down with industry professionals and talk about their latest projects, influences, the state of the industry and all things under the sun...

  1. 1D AGO

    In The Seats With....Austin Andrews, Andrew Holmes and 'The Island Between Tides'

    It's truly amazing to run into a story that you can't believe actually hasn't been told yet....On this special episode we sit down with the writer/director team of Austin Andrews and Andrew Holmes to talk about their new film; 'The Island Between Tides'.Northern BC, 1982. Six-year-old Lily vanishes. For two days and nights, no one can find the cheery girl who'd strayed onto a remote tidal island. Until she's found at the exact spot she was last seen with no memory of being away. Unharmed but not unaltered.  The changes start gradually. Lily develops prodigious musical abilities, sensing the world through a mysteriousmelody only she can hear. But she can't shake her obsession with this island she can't remember, and that her family won't discuss. At 20, the melody leads her back to it, and when she disappears again, this time it's for good. Or so everyone believed. Decades later, Lily reappears. But, impossibly, she looks just as she did the day she vanished. To her, no time passed at all. Still a young woman, the rest of the world has aged around her, her family now whittled down to her elderly father, middle- aged sister, and the troubled son she'd left as an infant. Her assimilation isn't easy, testing even the strongest family's bond. Because this time, Lily didn't come back alone.Wildly considered to be the lost J.M. Barrie story and one that Alfred Hitchcock desperately tried to adapt for the big screen, The Island Between Tides is the kind of genre cinema that evokes memories of films like The Innocents and even Hitchcock's Rebecca (not the crappy Netflix version).We talked with Andrews and Holmes about the making of the film, the revelatory casting of Paloma Kwiatkowski in a leading performance that has the potential to be an absolute breakout turn, the visual esthetic of the film and the importance of Fried Chicken in the creative process along with so very much more....

    26 min

  2. APR 16

    In The Seats With...Eric Tisch and National Canadian Film Day

    Get your elbows up, it's time to support our national arts...On this special episode we are celebrating the shared pleasure and experience of watching a movie in theatre, which just feels appropriate because it is National Canadian Film Day.We sat down with Eric Tisch, one of hard working team over at National Canadian Film Day who put on a myriad of events all across the country about what he did last year during the Toronto International Film Festival.To put it simply, he broke the Guinness World Record for the amount of feature films seen during a film festival.  It was ALOT....and yes many of them were Canadian.We talked about the birth of the idea of this daunting task, the team work involved in getting it done and the magic of being able to watch movies the way they really should be seen....together.

    23 min

  3. APR 4

    In The Seats With Samir Oliveros and 'The Luckiest Man In America'

    Truth is always stranger then fiction...On this special episode we dive into a movie that after a successful festival run, including here at TIFF has finally made it's way back to theatres.  It's time for 'The Luckiest Man In America'May 1984. An unemployed ice cream truck driver steps onto the game show Press Your Luck harboring a secret: the key to endless money. But his winning streak is threatened when the bewildered executives uncover his real motivations.We got to talk with co-writer/director Samir Oliveros back at TIFF before the movie had even sold and I got to ask him about this next level star making turn he got out of Paul Walter Hauser, the genuine batshit nature of the story and so very much more.The Luckiest Man In America  is in theatres now.

    18 min

  4. APR 4

    In The Seats With....Jamie Kastner and 'The Spoils'

    It's so easy for things to get so complicated...On this special episode, friend of the show writer/director Jaime Kastner returns with 'The Spoils'.Amid the rise of the far-right in Germany, as the spoils of post-WW2 collections hit the world art market afresh, lawyers, curators, politicians, and Jewish groups the world round are duking it out, painting by painting, sketch by sketch, over questions of ownership, history, and morality.A series of failed attempts by the city of Düsseldorf to honour German-Jewish art dealer Max Stern, who barely escaped the war, settled in Montreal and became Canada’s most successful art dealer, cuts to the heart of the current crisis in Germany and the art world beyond around the restitution of Nazi-looted art.Through a combination of exclusive interviews, actuality captured over a four-year period, and a gold-mine of rarely seenstock footage, The Spoils traces the be times tragic, often irony-laced strokes in this ongoing battle.We had the pleasure of sitting down with Jamie to talk about how he discovered this story, the realities of the war in Germany and it's subsequent aftermaths that are still taking place on many different levels.It's kicking off it's theatrical run across Canada and all the details are below so you can check out this truly thought provoking and conversation starting film.  Because it's not a story of answers, yet it's one that reminds us how we have to keep asking questions....TorontoEmpress Walk - week long starting April 4Hot Docs - April 5th (Q&A at 7:30pm) MontrealCinema du Musee - April 6th (Q&A at 5PM with Jamie and Clarence moderated by Stéphane), April 8th (12PM), April 10th (12:45PM) OttawaByTowne Cinema - April 7th (Q&A at 6:30pm)WaterlooPrincess Twin - April 23rd (Q&A time TBC)HamiltonPlayhouse Cinema - April 26th (Q&A time TBC)EdmontonMetro - April 27th (Q&A at 12:30pm)Vancouver The Rio - May 3rd (Q&A, time TBC)

    32 min

  5. MAR 28

    In The Seats With....Naomi Jaye and 'Darkest Miriam'

    It can take something outside of the norm to shake us out of our standard situations....On this special episode we are diving back into the saddle and back into the archives for an interview we did almost a year ago, but is coming to theatres now.  It's time for the story of 'Darkest Miriam'.Miriam Gordon (Britt Lower) lives in a fog of grief while working amidst marginalized members of the public who populate this local branch of the Toronto Public Library. When a burgeoning love-affair coincides with her receiving a series of oddly threatening letters addressed to her, Miriam’s sheltered existence is about to upended in ways she couldn't have imagined.This is a deeply intense psycho drama that takes us down the rabbit hole that love and grief can do to people in some pretty weird ways.We had the chance to talk with writer/director Naomi Jaye to talk about it all and then some.

    17 min

  6. MAR 7

    In The Seats With....Ricardo Curtis, Rodrigo Perez-Castro and 'Night of the Zoopocalypse'

    There's something to be said about being able to exist in both worlds....On this episode we dive into an unexpectedly enjoyable new animated romp which is in theatres tomorrow.  It's time to embrace 'Night of the Zoopocalypse'.After a meteor unleashes a virus that turns zoo animals into mutants, a mountain lion (David Harbour) and wolf (Gabbi Kosmidis) lead a team of surviving animals to stop the virus and rescue their zoo.I'll just say it....this shouldn't have worked as well as it does because even though it's from the mind of the legendary Clive Barker, it's sweet and goofy as all hell to.We had the pleasure of sitting with directors Ricardo Curtis & Rodrigo Perez-Castro to talk about how they got involved with the project, the pressures of adapting something from Clive Barker while still maintaining a family friendly sheen to it all.'Night of the Zoopocalypse' is in theatres Friday March 7th.

    13 min

  7. FEB 17

    In The Seats With...Ayisha Issa and 'Dark Match'

    When that bell rings, it's all about the spectacle...On today's episode we dive into a dark then expected tale inside the squared circle of professional wrestling where the violence goes a little above and beyond in "Dark Match".A small-time wrestling company accepts a well-paying gig in a backwoods town only to learn, too late, that the community is run by a mysterious cult leader with devious plans for their match.From writer/director Lowell Dean and on VOD platforms now; 'Dark Match' which also stars wrestling legend Chris Jericho is a gonzo film ride to say the least.We had the pleasure of sitting down with star Ayisha Issa who plays "Miss Behave" (epic wrestling name) about getting involved with the project, learning some of the physicality of wrestling and so very much more

    16 min

  8. JAN 31

    In The Seats With....Sook Yin Lee and 'Paying For It'

    Relationships change.On this very special episode we dive into one of our favorite Canadian films of the last calendar year which is now playing at the Scotiabank Theatre; it's time for 'Paying For It'.'Paying For It' is a live-action adaptation of acclaimed alternative-cartoonist Chester Brown’s best-selling graphicnovel. In the late 90s, Chester and Sonny are a long-term, committed, romantic couple. When Sonny wants toredefine their relationship, Chester, an introverted cartoonist, starts sleeping with sex workers and discovers a newkind of intimacy in the process. 'Paying For It' is about love, sex and non-monogamy for adults. It deals with thecomplicated subject of the exchange for sex-work versus the complications of romantic love.Adapted from the graphic novel of the same name by Chester Brown this is such a sweet and honest examination of the ever evolving nature of intimacy and one of the reasons that it hits so darn well is because a lot of it is pulled from the life of the films writer/director, the one and only Sook-Yin Lee.Before the film debuted back at TIFF, we had the pleasure of sitting down with Sook-Yin to talk about the nature of the story, the personal and broader elements of it all as she brought this passion project to screen.'Paying For It' is in select theatres across Canada now.

    43 min
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Where we sit down with industry professionals and talk about their latest projects, influences, the state of the industry and all things under the sun...

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  • Creator
    David Voigt
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2025
  • Episodes
    45
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    Explicit
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    © Copyright 2025 David Voigt
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