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Arctic Air Season 2

Posted by Lisa Charleyboy on December 9, 2012 at 10:10 PM ~ Comments (0).

When Arctic Air initially aired on CBC it was the largest audience to watch a premiere episode in a new drama in over 20 years. More so than even North of 60. I watched it. I wanted to like it. I really did. Somehow I found myself slightly disengaged. I tried again on the second episode and still couldn’t get into it. Perhaps I had really high expectations since Adam Beach was on just about every billboard and bus stop in Toronto last January. Last month I took another shot at Arctic Air as it’s on Netflix Canada (you can watch … Continued

imagineNATIVE Internship

Posted by Lisa Charleyboy on November 2, 2012 at 6:42 PM ~ Comments (2).

Categories: Film + TV

When I worked at imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival back in 2008, I never imagined that 4 years later I’d be coming back to cover the festival for CBC. But that’s just the simple twist of fate that happened for the 13th annual festival that happened a few weeks ago. I submitted my application for the CBC imagineNATIVE Internship and was selected to create the official CBC Arts & Entertainment content during the festival. During my internship, I created four posts for CBC A&E online, interviewed Producer Lisa Meeches, Actor Tamara Podemski, and Executive Director Jason Ryle. I also … Continued