Filmmaker conversations with festival heart.
Moving Radio gives filmmakers room to explain what their films are, why they made them, and where audiences can see them. Its conversations lean toward process, screenings, community context, and the personal stakes behind independent work.
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Moving Radio is a film-interview show with a clear affection for independent cinema and the festival ecosystems that keep it visible. It spends a lot of time with filmmakers close to the work: directors, writers, producers, editors, and collaborators who can explain how a project moved from idea to screen. The pace is patient. Episodes often begin by naming the film, the festival, the cinema, and the post-screening conversation, giving the listener a practical map before the deeper interview begins. That structure makes the show feel useful as well as curious. Recent conversations move across a wide range of film worlds. Foster Child is framed through Indigenous family reconnection, documentary craft, re-release, and the power of seeing the film with an audience years later. Little Doors and Earth to Colby bring attention to artists trying to describe what their films became through years of writing, shooting, and editing. The Bearded Girl opens into belonging, difference, self-acceptance, and the long process of becoming comfortable with oneself. Young Female Playwright brings in questions around personal material, authorship, tragedy, and gender-based violence. Forbidden University turns toward persecution, Baha'i resilience, and the suppression of education in Iran. The genre side is just as present, with Friday the 69th and My Bloody Valentine giving horror, comedy, cult screenings, and slasher history their own space. The show is not built around sharp criticism or ranking films. It is more interested in letting makers describe the problem they were trying to solve, the feeling they were chasing, and the audience moment they hope will happen in the room. That makes Moving Radio especially strong when a film carries local, cultural, or personal weight. It can be loose and conversational, but the looseness works because guests are given time to find the real answer. The appeal is in the access: a listener hears not only what is screening, but why the screening matters to the people bringing the film there.
Made for: Moving Radio is for listeners who follow independent film, Canadian cinema, festival programming, cult screenings, and filmmaker Q&As. It will especially suit people who care more about process and context than quick reviews.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by anchoring interviews in real screenings, cinemas, festival appearances, and post-film conversations. It treats small-scale and community-rooted films with the same care it gives cult horror and established genre history.
Moving Radio focuses on Albertan, Canadian, and independent cinema. Join host/producer Christian Zyp and contributors Lindsey Campbell, Mark Davies & Lucas Anders monthly for entertaining interviews, film reviews, and anything else silver screen related.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Moving Radio turns filmmaker interviews into clear accounts of how independent screen work is conceived, funded, shaped and brought before local audiences.
Moving Radio gets close to the people making screen work, then stays long enough to hear how an idea survives contact with money, equipment and collaborators.
A wheelchair-rugby pitch and an Edmonton film set walk into the same genuinely curious interview.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A grounded conversation about Silver Screamers, where creativity, community, and a renewed love of filmmaking sit alongside a light horror edge.
Sean Cisterna talks through Silver Screamers, a low-budget horror documentary about a group of spirited senior citizens trying their hand at filmmaking.
A concise, process-focused conversation about disability history, audience-minded storytelling, and the team behind History in 60.
History in 60 comes across as a grounded look at disability history and related topics, with John making the case for an audience-first approach to the series.
A warm pitch for adaptive-sports storytelling, with practical details that make the project feel real.
Nick Thielen comes across as steady and optimistic in a conversation that centers Rise of the Reapers and wheelchair rugby. The episode also positions him as a filmmaker, stand-up comic, and wheelchair athlete, which gives the project a personal pull while still keeping the…
A warm film conversation that values process as much as the projects themselves.
Moving Radio spends its time with filmmaker Kyle Tobiasen, and the four FavaFest projects he discusses give the episode a clear shape: a music video, a narrative short, a mixed-media piece, and a challenge project. The strongest thread is process.
Friendly interviews from inside pop culture.
Fan-first interviews with genre creators.
Culture, conversation, and weekend momentum.
Creative work, traced back to its sources.
Awards season, read from inside the room.
Moving Radio interviews producer Coty Savard and subtitle editor Connor McNally about Gil Cardinal’s 1987 documentary Foster Child and its Cree syllabic re-release.
This episode features an interview with Jody Wilson, director and writer of the film 'The Bearded Girl,' discussing the film's themes of belonging, self-acceptance, and the creative journey behind it.
This episode features an interview with Anthony Oberbeck, writer and director of the film 'Little Doors', discussing its creation and upcoming premiere at the Calgary Underground Film Festival.
This episode features an interview with Rino Mioc, director and co-writer of the film 'Earth to Kobe', discussing its themes of paranormal exploration, artistic journey, and the character's defiance of cultural expectations.
This episode features an interview with Nazanin Knight, director of the film 'Forbidden University,' discussing the underground B.I.H.E.
Host Christian Zyp interviews filmmaker Pony Nicole Harroff about her film screening at the Calgary Underground Film Festival.
Host Christian Zyp interviews director Alex Montia about his micro-budget slasher comedy 'Friday the 69th' screening at the Calgary Underground Film Festival.
Host Christian Zyp interviews director George Mihalka about his classic slasher film My Bloody Valentine ahead of a 45th anniversary screening at the Calgary Underground Film Festival.
Host Christian Zyp interviews a director about their work featured at Northwest Film Fest, discussing filmmaking, picture cars, and the local film scene.
Christian welcomes Sean Cisterna back to Moving Radio for a conversation about Silver Screamers.
Host Lucas Anders interviews the director and producer of the documentary 'Never Get Busted' about a former narcotics officer who now teaches drug users how to conceal their stash.
John Lepke joins Moving Radio to talk about History in 60.
Moving Radio talks with Nick Thielen about Rise of the Reapers in a warm, loose conversation that still gets to the point.
Lucas Anders speaks with Kyle Tobiasen about the four projects heading to FavaFest.
Moving Radio host Lucas Sanders interviews Millen Kalra about Who is the Boy?, a debut short film created with Nick Lang from a planned seven-track visual album.
An interview with a filmmaker about an upcoming screening and Q&A for their film.
Host Christian Zyp interviews director Courtney Montour and skater Sherry Bonkus about the documentary 'Rising Through the Fray' featuring Team Indigenous Rising roller derby.
Host Christian Zyp interviews director Dominique about her short documentary 'Send and Receive' premiering at the Broadview International Film Festival.
Host Christian Zyp interviews director Claire Mullen about her documentary on storyteller Tony Cashman, premiering at Metro Cinema.
A year-end special episode of Moving Radio featuring curated interviews with directors of independent films, highlighting Canadian and Albertan cinema.
Host Christian Zyp interviews Tim Cook, who recently bought a movie theater in rural Alberta, discussing his background and the local cinema community.
Host Lucas Anders interviews filmmaker Tasha Hubbard about her film Metal Larks, which explores the legacy of the 60s scoop and Indigenous child removal.
Host Christian Zyp interviews filmmaker Sophia Bogdanovich about her film 'Measures for a Funeral' and its main character Audrey.
An interview with the creators of the documentary 'Never Get Busted' about a former narcotics officer who teaches drug users how to hide their stash.
Host Lucas Anders interviews director Teresa Ahlfeld and artist Cassidy Waring about their documentary 'Hearst Chasing', screening at the Calgary Underground Film Festival.
Host Christian Zyp interviews the creators of the documentary 'How Dark My Love' about its themes and screening at Cuff Docs.
Host Lucas Anders interviews Xander Robin, director of the documentary 'Python Hunt,' about his film and the Calgary Underground Film Festival.
Host Christian Zyp interviews the creators of the documentary Modern Horror about a sex worker's memoir.
Host Christian Zyp interviews filmmaker Christopher Greenslate about his short film Banana Head, featured at Yikes Film Festival.
Host Christian Zyp interviews filmmaker Dominique Keller about her documentary short 'Send and Receive' screening at a local film festival.
This episode features an interview with Luke Paron, writer/director/producer of the short film 'Arachnid', discussing its premise about a man's obsessive descent after witnessing a dance performance and its screening at the Yikes Film Festival.
This episode features an interview with Preston Ewasiuk and Neil Chase from Brimstone Pictures about their new feature film 'Contamination', including details on its premiere and screenings.
This episode features an interview with filmmaker Etta George House about their documentary 'Hey Pansy,' which explores anti-trans and anti-drag rhetoric in Alberta through a fictitious reporter character played by Andrea House, premiering at Metro Cinema.
This episode features an interview with filmmaker Anna Culkin about her documentary 'Women Who Dig,' which explores women farmers, feminism, and sustainable agriculture, based on Trina Moyles' book.
This episode features an interview with director Brandon Christensen about his films 'Body Cam' and 'Night of the Reaper' screening at Northwest Fear Fest.