On The Screen

Feature: Emily Kai Bock

SCENE AND HEARD Emily Kai Bock knows how to get an entire scene talking. Photography by Matthew Tammaro It began in 2012. Emily’s friend Claire, a Canadian indie musician, needed to make a music video. Emily, who already had several music videos under her belt, willingly donated her services to create a concept and direct the video. It was a passion project and an opportunity to work with a good friend. The girls gathered who they could with what they …

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Profile: Cara Gee

Photographer / Steph Martyniuk Assistant / Michael Chiang Cara Gee: woman about town who’s making colours, waves and inspired (and inspiring) moves with her acting. Cara’s career has been a-changin’ in big ways for this Ontario-born actress. Named as one of Torontoist’s “People to Watch” in 2012, and honoured as a Top Ten Theatre Artist for Now Magazine 2011, Gee’s theatre roles have been notably diverse: a mentally challenged Ojibway woman; a porn star; a woman romantically interested in her …

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Profile: Jared Raab

Photographer / Jalani Morgan Assistants / Hansel Alanzo and Lorne Bradley Jared Raab’s filmography is vast and fascinating. He has been putting out experimental music videos for some of Canada’s quickest-growing talent – bands like Diamond Rings, Young Empires, OhBijou, Snailhouse, The Arkells and Born Ruffians. But he’s also got his hands deep into other areas of film production and editing. I sat down with him to talk about his work to date and upcoming releases. We also talked about …

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Feature: Charlie Carrick

A Simple Man When it comes to his acting career, TIFF Rising Star Charlie Carrick is nothing but himself. Photographer / Jalani Morgan | Stylist / Terri Dacquisto (Plutino Group) + Grooming / Bree Powell using M.A.C Cosmetics (Plutino Group) —- “When I was 11 or 12, my first football team had this manager, a guy called Harry Harrison,” 26-year-old English actor Charlie Carrick tells me, “During practice, he used to smoke, like, 80 cigarettes, sitting on this overturned milk …

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Profile: Jahmil French

Make Me Blink Jahmil French talks fearlessness, seizing opportunities and expressing himself as a multi-disciplinary artist. Photographer / Simon Mohos + Grooming / Tami El Sombati —- It’s difficult to make Jahmil French flinch. The 21-year-old Toronto native has an unnerving confidence that allows him to hold his own, no matter what form of art he is expressing himself through. The actor first appeared on television at the age of 16 in a guest appearance on CTV’s Flashpoint and then …

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Catch Up: Katie Boland

It has been one year, two months and several notable projects like The Master and Sex After Kids, since I sat down with Katie Boland in a Queen East coffee shop and to keep a long story short, she’s been busy. Currently working on a webseries titled Long Story, Short, an adaptation of her collection of personal essays, Boland is working alongside her mother, filmmaker Gail Harvey, to bring the story of a young woman during a rowdy summer full …

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