Wallbreakers Podcast

In this fifth episode, I speak with Ottawa-based visual artist and filmmaker Aicha Lasfar.Aicha’s French-Canadian and Muslim culture illustrates her background in visual art and pyrography.This has led her to the world of filmmaking, where she explores her creative identity through this visual medium and was given a microgrant by Digi60 for BIPOC and Francophone filmmakers.In this episode, Aisha shares her experiences with womanhood and how we can maximize personal experiences in shaping one's technical visual film style.

In this episode, we speak with Ottawa based documentary filmmaker, Patrick Kabeya.As a Congolese Canadian who grew up in apartheid Africa, Patrick's creative identity roots from portraying Congolese colonial and political history and Pan-African historical figures in his documentaries.He has gained recognition for six short documentary films and two feature length documentaries, including “Congo": A Political Tragedy” and “From Patrice to Lumumba”.As a professional and Documentary film, Patrick shares his insights on being the masters of our own stories.

In this third episode of Wallbreakers, we chat with King Kimbit, a jack of all trades in spoken word, singing and music production.As a daughter of a Vietnamese immigrant family, King prides herself in her musical artistry that roots in personal stories and social consciousness.Other than her wins and participation in spoken word and poetry events in multiple cities, King facilitates spaces advocating arts education for people to explore one's creative expression.We talk with King about this further, and about finding one's individual voice.

In this episode, we chat with Fitch Jean and Weggon Allen, executives of Ottawa based film production company Lenz Films.Fitch Jean is a filmmaker, director and producer, and Weggon Allen is an executive producer and entrepreneur.With Lenz Films, both Fitch and Weggon dedicate their careers to storytelling and the Ottawa filmmaking scene. In this episode, I chat with them about what it takes for young emerging creatives to begin their creative odyssey.

In this episode, we chat with Ottawa filmmakers Kishan Sondagar & Hussain Dawwas.Kishan Sondagar is a director at the Greasy Fix Media, a professional videography and photography business. And has received two awards for his film “The Middle Eight” from the 2023 Digi60 Filmmakers’ Festival. Hussain Dawwas also received two awards as an emerging filmmaker for his entry into the festival, “Watch What You Have”.Together we kick off the podcast by talking about the fears and struggles we tackle as emerging creatives.