Gerry Flahive's guest appearances

Gerry Flahive

Face2Face with David Peck

Junk Filter

Butch Cassidy

Sean Campbell

Michael Mann

Ricky Gervais

Sammy Davis Jr

Jerry Lewis

Pamela Hawley

Richard Bell

Gabe Polsky

Louis Theroux

Alex Ross

Liz Forkin Bohannon

Werner Herzog

Scott Joplin

Aaron James

OwlTail

Writer and former NFB senior producer Gerry Flahive joins the podcast to discuss moviegoing in Toronto in the 1970s, at the dawn of the multiplex age. Gerry worked as a teenage usher at the new Imperial Six cinema, under the precise command of cinema manager Phil Traynor, the inspiration for Gerry’s alternate Twitter persona Bert Xanadu, who tweets from the year 1973 where he is both the reigning mayor of Toronto and the manager of the Imperial Six. Bert’s tweets and essays have been collected in Gerry’s new book I Own This Town: The Mayor Bert Xanadu Xanthology. Gerry and I talk about the many movie theatres, from cavernous palaces to alternate film spaces to grindhouses that used to exist on Yonge Street, the eclectic programming and architecture of the Imperial Six, and the local film culture that led to the development of cinema multiplexes and the Toronto International Film Festival. Patrons of the Junk Filter podcast receive at least two additional exclusive episodes a month: some of our notable previous guests include Jared Yates Sexton, David Roth, Will Sloan, Bryan Quinby, Sooz Kempner, and Jacob Bacharach. More to come! Sign up at https://www.patreon.com/junkfilter Follow Gerry Flahive and Mayor Bert Xanadu on Twitter. I Own This Town: The Mayor Bert Xanadu Xanthology by Gerry Flahive is now available at the Spacing store in Toronto and other fine bookstores. Also available as an e-book at Amazon. Famous Players Theatres “Next Attraction” snipe, mid-1970s Famous Players Theatres “Gift Books” snipe, 1972 Trailer for Emperor of the North (Robert Aldrich, 1973) Trailer for The Harrad Experiment (Ted Post, 1973)

Writer and former NFB senior producer Gerry Flahive joins the podcast to discuss moviegoing in Toronto in the 1970s, at the dawn of the multiplex age. Gerry worked as a teenage usher at the new Imperial Six cinema, under the precise command of cinema manager Phil Traynor, the inspiration for Gerry’s alternate Twitter persona Bert Xanadu, who tweets from the year 1973 where he is both the reigning mayor of Toronto and the manager of the Imperial Six. Bert’s tweets and essays have been collected in Gerry’s new book I Own This Town: The Mayor Bert Xanadu Xanthology. Gerry and I talk about the many movie theatres, from cavernous palaces to alternate film spaces to grindhouses that used to exist on Yonge Street, the eclectic programming and architecture of the Imperial Six, and the local film culture that led to the development of cinema multiplexes and the Toronto International Film Festival. Patrons of the Junk Filter podcast receive at least two additional exclusive episodes a month: some of our notable previous guests include Jared Yates Sexton, David Roth, Will Sloan, Bryan Quinby, Sooz Kempner, and Jacob Bacharach. More to come! Sign up at <a href="https://www.patreon.com/junkfilter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/junkfilter</a> Follow <a href="https://twitter.com/gflahive" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gerry Flahive</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/moviemayor" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mayor Bert Xanadu</a> on Twitter. <a href="https://spacingstore.ca/products/i-own-this-town-the-mayor-bert-xanadu-xanthology" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">I Own This Town: The Mayor Bert Xanadu Xanthology</a> by Gerry Flahive is now available at the Spacing store in Toronto and other fine bookstores. Also available as an e-book at <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Own-This-Town-Xanadu-Xanthology-ebook/dp/B09W7TRCLD" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amazon</a>. Famous Players Theatres “<a href="https://youtu.be/5gnJnuaBK-A" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Next Attraction</a>” snipe, mid-1970s Famous Players Theatres “<a href="https://youtu.be/4fgx-w6zoVM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gift Books</a>” snipe, 1972 Trailer for <a href="https://youtu.be/5jn-ZS7g8xs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Emperor of the North</a> (Robert Aldrich, 1973) Trailer for <a href="https://youtu.be/WT8imYMud-8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Harrad Experiment</a> (Ted Post, 1973)

88: The Imperial Six (with Gerry Flahive)

Gerry Flahive and Face2Face host David Peck talk about secrets, story, the “D” word, why he’s a 2001 fanatic and how a “real life” can be intimidating.BiographyGerry Flahive is a Toronto-based writer, producer and creative consultant at his media arts company, Modern Story. Until May 2014, Flahive was Senior Producer at the National Film Board of Canada, which he joined in 1981. He has done creative and storytelling consulting, strategic planning, course development and speechwriting for clients, including the Toronto Maple Leafs, Cirque de Soleil, Telefilm Canada, MaRS, TVOntario, Humber College and Giants of Africa. His productions have won many international awards including 2 Emmy Awards, a World Press Photo Award and a Peabody Award for HIGHRISE (highrise.nfb.ca), a global interactive documentary. He produced &amp; co-produced more than 80 documentary projects on a wide range of subjects. Major projects include the international co-production PARIS 1919, the ground-breaking Filmmaker-in-Residence multi-media project at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, the NFB-Canadian Film Centre Feature Documentary Program, and short films for the Governor-General’s Performing Arts Awards, working with such recipients as Bryan Adams and Rush. In the early 1990's, as Senior Communications Manager, he managed NFB involvement in the Oscars and the Sundance Film Festival, as well as corporate communications and corporate branding. Flahive is a frequent contributor to the Globe and Mail and has been published in Time, The New York Times and The Walrus, and many media industry publications, and is a National Magazine Award nominee for humour. He is a member of the boards of the Pages Unbound literary festival, the Toronto Irish Film Festival and the Seneca College Documentary Film Institute, and was on the Advisory Board for the MIT Open Documentary Lab report "Interactive Documentary and Digital Journalism".  He has been a guest speaker, presenter and mentor at many international events and institutions, including MIT, the I-Docs Lab in Switzerland, the MEDIMED Documentary conference in Barcelona, and the New York Film Festival.----------For more information about my  podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit my site.With thanks to producer Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gerry Flahive and Face2Face host David Peck talk about secrets, story, the “D” word, why he’s a 2001 fanatic and how a “real life” can be intimidating.BiographyGerry Flahive is a Toronto-based writer, producer and creative consultant at his media arts company, Modern Story. Until May 2014, Flahive was Senior Producer at the National Film Board of Canada, which he joined in 1981. He has done creative and storytelling consulting, strategic planning, course development and speechwriting for clients, including the Toronto Maple Leafs, Cirque de Soleil, Telefilm Canada, MaRS, TVOntario, Humber College and Giants of Africa. His productions have won many international awards including 2 Emmy Awards, a World Press Photo Award and a Peabody Award for HIGHRISE (<a href="http://highrise.nfb.ca/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">highrise.nfb.ca</a>), a global interactive documentary. He produced &amp; co-produced more than 80 documentary projects on a wide range of subjects. Major projects include the international co-production PARIS 1919, the ground-breaking Filmmaker-in-Residence multi-media project at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, the NFB-Canadian Film Centre Feature Documentary Program, and short films for the Governor-General’s Performing Arts Awards, working with such recipients as Bryan Adams and Rush. In the early 1990's, as Senior Communications Manager, he managed NFB involvement in the Oscars and the Sundance Film Festival, as well as corporate communications and corporate branding. Flahive is a frequent contributor to the Globe and Mail and has been published in Time, The New York Times and The Walrus, and many media industry publications, and is a National Magazine Award nominee for humour. He is a member of the boards of the Pages Unbound literary festival, the Toronto Irish Film Festival and the Seneca College Documentary Film Institute, and was on the Advisory Board for the MIT Open Documentary Lab report "Interactive Documentary and Digital Journalism".  He has been a guest speaker, presenter and mentor at many international events and institutions, including MIT, the I-Docs Lab in Switzerland, the MEDIMED Documentary conference in Barcelona, and the New York Film Festival.----------For more information about my <a href="For%20more%20information%20about%20my%20podcasting,%20writing%20and%20public%20speaking%20please%20visit%20davidpecklive.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"> podcasting, writing and public speaking</a> please visit my site.With thanks to producer Josh Snethlage and <a href="http://mixedmediasound.ca/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Mixed Media Sound</a>. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.