Culture interviews with conscience and warmth.
Face2Face with David Peck pairs generous introductions with thoughtful conversations about cinema, creativity, history, and social change. Recent episodes move from Canadian film culture and magic to Indigenous resistance, family trauma, political conscience, and the strange community of a movie theater.
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Face2Face with David Peck is a conversation-first interview show centered on artists, filmmakers, actors, writers, and people working with story as a form of public meaning. It moves slowly on purpose. Episodes often begin with a generous frame, a bit of welcome, and a sense that the guest is arriving into a live exchange rather than a prepared media stop. The show is especially at home around film. Recent conversations orbit National Canadian Film Day, the Toronto International Film Festival, Canadian authenticity, feature debuts, historical dramas, documentaries, and the communal charge of watching a story with other people. It treats screens as more than delivery systems. A discussion about watching Chinatown on a phone, sitting in a theater, or laughing in the same row becomes a way to ask what attention and community still mean. The show also has a recurring fascination with magic. Those episodes use magic to talk about discipline, vocation, marketing, wonder, and the strange pull of a craft that may not make practical sense but becomes impossible to abandon. The range can be wide. One episode may linger on a playful exchange with Steve Valentine, while another sits with Red Power Rising, Batoche, the Northwest resistance, and the violence carried in public memory. The tone stays humane when the subjects darken. In conversations around Truth and Treason and Calorie, the show follows moral courage, family trauma, political history, and the difficulty of admitting what has been hidden or inherited. It does not chase sharp soundbites. The questions tend to arrive through context, reflection, and close listening, which gives guests room to think aloud and revise themselves in real time. There is plenty of enthusiasm, but it is usually grounded in the work: a scene that lands, a film that opens a wound, a performance that makes private conflict visible. The show can feel intimate even when the subject is public. It is best for listeners who like cultural interviews that connect craft to conscience, memory, and social responsibility. It also rewards patience. The payoff is not speed; it is the sense of a conversation still unfolding after the microphones stop.
Made for: For listeners who like thoughtful arts and film conversations that take time to connect creative work with memory, ethics, family, history, and community. It especially suits people drawn to Canadian storytelling, festival cinema, and reflective interviews.
What sets it apart: Face2Face with David Peck stands apart by treating promotional conversations as moral and personal inquiries, not just career recaps. A film, magic act, or public project becomes a doorway into how stories shape people, communities, and historical memory.
Face2Face is hosted by change maker David Peck and is rooted in casual conversation and intelligent inspiration. David interviews film makers, actors, writers and artists of various kinds and he does it in a fun, thoughtful and entertaining way. Check out this weekly podcast where David honors and celebrates people who believe in the power of little things, the splash and ripple effect and who are rolling up their sleeves to make the world a better place. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
David Peck draws out the history, moral purpose, and practical choices that shape films, photographs, performances, and the people making them.
David Peck follows the ideas behind creative work, giving guests room to explain how images, performances, and stories take on meaning. Face2Face with David Peck is conversational rather than verdict-driven: Peck asks about framing and communal viewing with Colm Feore, while…
A magic trick becomes a marketing lesson before you can ask where Houdini hid the business plan.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A generous conversation about Canadian film that finds shared attention wherever the screen happens to be.
National Canadian Film Day becomes an invitation to treat Canadian stories as something shared, and David Peck's conversation with a critically acclaimed actor follows that idea into a looser question: where does a film really belong?
A thoughtful Face to Face conversation about magic as work, history, and a way to read the world.
David Peck welcomes David Benn, introduced as a magician, consultant, art critic, and author, for a conversation about what magic can teach when it is treated as work.
Batoche and the language of resistance anchor a careful conversation about how history is named.
Face to Face shifts from Batoche Historical Park in Saskatchewan to the language used to frame the place, and that turn gives the episode its weight.
A film conversation about the private cost of discovering you have stood on the wrong side of history.
Face to Face is strongest when it settles into a film conversation about a marriage carrying the cost of moral knowledge. David Peck's conversation with Matt Whitaker and Rupert Evans centers on a scene where a husband and wife, aware they have supported the wrong side of…
A careful conversation about the way political history and family trauma press into each other in Calorie.
Calorie comes through as a film about family first, with political history entering the home through private tension, trauma, memory, and questions of authenticity.
Houdini's showmanship becomes a lens on problem solving, marketing, and the gap between real and perceived risk.
Magic is framed less as trickery than as a way to think through problems. Performance leads into questions about how people set goals, test ideas, and judge possible solutions, with Houdini's suspended straitjacket stunt serving as the clearest example of spectacle doing several…
Ernest Cole’s search for photographic freedom meets the reality of segregation in more than one world.
Ernest Cole’s hunger for photographic freedom runs up against the racial categories forced onto him. The conversation frames him as young, already celebrated, and widely published, then follows his wish to move through the world with the freedom he associated with…
Catholic books, prayer, and lived witness.
Catholic conversations with a generous heart.
Catholic answers for complicated faithful lives.
Traditional Catholic commentary with doctrinal edge.
Catholic prayer with scriptural backbone.
David Peck interviews filmmaker Raoul Peck about his documentary 'Ernest Cole: Lost and Found,' which explores the life and rediscovered archive of South African photographer Ernest Cole.
This episode features an interview with filmmaker Nadine Pecqueniza about her documentary 'Last of the Right Whales,' exploring conservation efforts, community impacts, and legislative changes related to whale fishing and marine cohabitation.
This episode of Face to Face features an interview with author Jo Brannini, discussing topics like wildfires, social media, empathy, and storytelling, while exploring broader themes of change and community.
Magician and collector David Ben discusses donating his 50-year magic collection to Indiana University's Lilly Library.
Avi Nesher tells David Peck that Our Loves is about human experience, not a historical account of October 7.
An estimated 80–85% of the Criterion Closet visitors at TIFF were under 30, including some who bought 4K discs before owning a player.
National Canadian Film Day is framed around 2,000 free screenings in 49 countries, and Colm Feore says the point is to get people together around "our story." Feore argues Canadian films often excel at "insightful, intelligent, carefully conceived, thoughtful storytelling," even as he names Hollywood directors like Michael Mann, Sidney Lumet, Clint Eastwood, and John Woo.
David Peck welcomes David Benn into a live conversation.
David Peck hosts Face to Face, a place for stories that shape us.
This episode features an interview with Steve Valentine, a multi-talented magician, writer, producer, director, and actor, exploring themes of magic, creativity, and the power of the subconscious.
This episode of Face to Face features an interview with George Strombolopoulos about his show Made New, which reflects on Canadian authenticity through storytelling.
This episode features an interview with director Brian Fuller about his feature debut film 'Dust Bunny' at the Toronto International Film Festival, discussing its Midnight Madness premiere and his experience.
David Peck welcomes Matt Whitaker and Rupert Evans to talk about Truth and Treason.
Eisha Marjara discusses "Calorie" on Face to Face with David Peck, tying Air India Flight 182 to the 1984 Golden Temple attack in Amritsar and to a second-generation Sikh family in Montreal.
This episode explores the conflict between nuns and the Vatican, examining themes of faith, power, and resistance within the Catholic Church.
This episode features an interview with Raoul Peck discussing Ernest Cole's photography and its impact on social change.