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Leo’s Legacy Looking back at over 20 years of talent in BC’s film and television industry and the legendary Leo Awards

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Page Six Video Killed the ‘Radio’ Star It aired at 12:01 a.m. on August 1, 1981 - and things would never be the same.

The song “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles, was the first-ever music video played on a brand new channel called MTV (Music Television).

Little did we realize that we had forever changed the world.

The lyrics rang out like a bad omen as us ‘kids’ went crazy watching it live on television. It was history in the making. The future was here.

Video killed the radio star Video killed the radio star In my mind and in my car We can’t rewind we’ve gone too far Pictures came and broke your heart Put the blame on VCR The words really didn’t matter. Neither did the song. A new era was here. No longer did we just have to listen to music. We could see it happening right before our eyes on the screen.

But in this new MTV world, you now didn’t just have to sound good - you had to look good too. So fake pretty faces began to replace real genuine voices.

And technology was brought in to make it sound even better. Didn’t even matter if you couldn’t sing. You could fake it and still win awards (remember Grammy winners Milli Vanilli). And when that wasn’t enough, production and movie people were brought in to take everything to the next level (remember Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ video - wow). This was definitely better than radio.

It was so much fun we didn’t care. As ‘kids’ we were addicted, and there was no turning back.

Today we face a similar situation. Social media, smartphones and digital video cameras, capable of broadcasting live on the internet in real-time, are in the hands of almost every kid today. And as for fakes, they’re everywhere. But who cares. It’s entertaining, and people are having fun. We have, yet again, changed the world forever.

Much like MTV, camera phones started out innocently enough as a simple device harmlessly marketed to ‘kids’. Taking naughty pictures was now a possibility because no film needed to be developed. Then technology made it better and more sophisticated. Then we added video capability - and connected it all to the internet. What could possibly go wrong?

Today, social sharing services like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube have replaced not only MTV, but TV in general. Networks are rapidly restructuring to keep up. Even the once trusted nightly news has all but abandoned responsible reporting to show you the latest ‘citizen video’ uploaded to the internet today. Needless to say, video seems to have killed a lot more than the radio star.

Night after night we turn on our ‘channels’ to tune in the latest hits. But the feel-good images of the 80s have been replaced by something quite indescribable. A lot of it is still fake, but overall - it is all too real. Sometimes it’s funny. Sometimes it’s sad. Sometimes the overwhelming violence shows us something we’d rather not see. As the song says, the pictures came and broke our heart.

The world has a lot of information to share right now. But how do we wade through a wasteland flooded with fakes, forgeries and doubtful imagery some of which, like the music videos mentioned above, have been highly produced and enhanced by the kind of technology that would make your head

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spin faster than an old turntable. Then there’s the stuff shown completely out of context. What took place before that incident? What about after?

News channels, who were once charged as society’s watchdogs against misinformation, are now turning to social media videos for nightly content.

Plagued by falling ratings and eroding public trust, these same news outlets are now mostly owned by multimedia telecom giants, each of whom could be said to have an agenda and a political interest at stake. Newspapers, radio and television broadcasters in Canada are now also begging for millions in taxpayer bailout money - which should make you stop and think. The CBC accepted over $1.5 billion in 2019 alone. And where you once found a balanced story that told both sides, you now often find only opinion and pontification. Everyone is playing to the crowd. It’s a faulty system full of shifty dogma.

Sadly, news reporters, politicians and world leaders alike are some of the worst violators. They’re taking to social media in droves in an attempt to aggrandize themselves, all whilst participating in everything from hero worship to personal opinion and social activism. Just for the record - that’s not really their jobs. Society should not be ruled by fake social media or scam accounts looking for ‘likes’, hits, ratings, or worst of all - votes.

So, who is responsible - and how do we make it stop? The answer might be a simple one because, like most things, the real control probably lies in our very own hands.

Time to put down the devices. Change the channel. Listen to a different song.

Time to stop and think. And time to demand better - especially from our politicians, tech leaders, news outlets - and each other.

The things we teach our children today are more important than ever before.

As part of the MTV generation, I remember how easily we were influenced and manipulated. We were young, eager to belong, and wanted to change the world. We thought we were smart, ‘woke’, brave and invincible - not unlike young people today.

But unlike young people today, we were much more protected. We didn’t have free and unsupervised access to devices that could so easily connect us to the adult world of internet porn, graphic violence, human cruelty, extremism or radical ideas. Unlike today’s target audience, the worst thing we saw was Madonna in a bra singing “Like a Virgin”.

Still, time marches on, and things change. Yet as I watch a world on fire, and anger raging in the streets, I can’t help but feel a little sad. Have we done right by the youth of today? Are they being targeted, or worse yet, recruited? Have we handed them the keys to a better world, or a weapon by which they will bring about their own destruction? What does the future hold for our future generation?

The leaders of tomorrow deserve our guidance today. But right now they’re probably just kids staring innocently at the screen, wondering what they’re watching - and maybe falling under the wrong influence. Without proper context, they can get lost. Without proper protection, they can get hurt. They need to know that violence, hate and destruction are never the right answer.

We must try for more understanding, patience and peace. And like the song says, we can’t rewind - we’ve come too far. But how far is too far? When it comes to our future, let’s hope we can find a far far better way than this.

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The Leo Awards Legacy An ‘In Conversation’ podcast feature story with Leo Awards President, Walter Daroshin - By Catherine (Cat) Barr / cbarr@westvancouver.com CAT: Hello. We’re speaking with Walter Daroshin today. A very famous face in Vancouver who deals with many famous faces in his role as president of the Leo Awards. The Leo Awards are one of Vancouver’s most spectacular, or dare I say, Canada’s most spectacular events.

Walter, tell us what started the Leo Awards?

WD: Well, hello Catherine, to you and your listeners. The Leos were born 23-24 years ago, really as a response to what we saw happening within the industry. The film and television community here became much more adept and prolific at what it did. It became much more polished, and we’re producing programming that stood up against anything that we saw anywhere on the horizon. There was a small group of us that got together and talked about these things, but we decided that it would be time to consider celebrating the artistic achievements of this community.

CAT: Now, you mentioned there were key players. Sonny Wong, of course, is one of the pivotal players in this endeavour.

WD: Yeah, well Sonny and I had been partners in a variety of projects going back almost 35 years. And Sonny’s expertise was in the event management business. In those early days, there were a number of people that came in and out of our circle - and our board, which is public, is stocked with people that are leaders within the industry.

CAT: There are people from everywhere - from the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Foundation in British Columbia to ACTRA to Creative BC. So you really managed to pull together a community in producing the Leo Awards?

WD: Well yes! Right from day one, we needed support from the “industry”, and that included every union, every guild, every funding agency. And then backwards into the actual production community, all of the primary and major producers of the work - so it really did require a buy-in.

And at that point in time, it felt as though the work that was happening here wasn’t being necessarily acknowledged as much as, for example, the community in Toronto, And so really, you know, our reaction was more of a response to that. We said it’s wonderful to have a national program. It’s important to support a national agenda. However, as with many other jurisdictions, we felt it was time to inaugurate our own [in BC] as well.

CAT: For those who’ve never been to the Leo Awards - I’ve written about them for years, and I’ve attended them for years - and I get so excited, and you know why? It is BC’s Oscar awards. It involves glamorous red carpets, people in outfits and dresses. It involves live music on the stage. It has presenters. It has speeches. It has funny moments. It’s a really big, glamorous, exciting night. Tell us some of the thinking behind this.

WD: Well, I’ll correct you in that regard. People often use the word Oscars as a comparison but to be to be fair, we’re much more like the Golden Globes. And what I mean by that is we don’t present in an auditorium with people seated side by side. We’re in hotel ballrooms.

There’s food involved. There’s wine on the table. There’s champagne.

We host three nights each year. There is a red carpet, as you mentioned, and there’s excitement. (Continued on next page . . .)

Actors Amanda Tapping, best known for her role as Samantha Carter in the Stargate franchise, and Tyler Labine, who co-starred with Melissa McCarthy in the Hollywood hit The Boss, present at the 2010 Leos.

Comedian/actor Peter Kelamis, who had them rolling in the aisles as host of the 2018 Leos, poses with the always glamorous Johannah Newmarch.

Actor Matt Frewer, who many remember from his role as Max Headroom in the 80s, presents on stage with the beautiful Elyse Levesque in 2010.

Aliyah O’Brien walks the red carpet with Aleks Paunovic in 2016. And yes, that was Aleks acting like an ape in Hollywood’s 2017 hit film War for the Planet of the Apes.

They only got more famous from here.

Identical twin brothers Drew Scott and Jonathan Scott, of Property Brothers fame, are now mega stars - but they’re Vancouver born and bred, and Leo award winners.

Ruling the red carpet in 2017 are actors Adrian Holmes, left and Viv Leacock. Both men have long resumes with appearances in both big screen movies and television.

It’s back to back, to back appearances at the Leos for local favourites Michael Eklund, left, and Mackenzie Gray (seen here in 2012), who always add character to the red carpet arrivals.

They’re Leo’s favourite couple by far.

Comedic duo, and husband and wife team Nancy Robertson and Brent Butt, of Corner Gas fame, rocked the house in 2018.

Actor John Cassini, left, of Intelligence and Robson Arms fame, is seen here with Philip Granger, of Ghostwars and Batwoman fame, at the 2018 Leo Awards.

The epitone of beauty and glamour, actors Sonya Salomaa, left, and Jacqueline Samuda (at the 2010 Leos) prove that it also takes talent and brains to make it big.

A walk down memory lane from the 2009 Leo Awards with Gabrielle Rose, from left, Babz Chula, Walter Daroshin and Anne Wheeler.

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Stuntwoman Tamara Daroshin has grownup around the Leo Awards, while actor Steve Bacic has always been a Leo’s leading man.

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We celebrate 14 separate program genres from motion picture, television, movie, dramatic series - all the way down to student production music videos. The human beings that inhabit these silos of production don’t always necessarily meet. There’s no reason for them to get together. And that was also one of the inspirations behind the idea of creating our own program is to bring all of these disparate groups together in celebration of a common purpose, acknowledging that we’re pretty good at what we do.

CAT: It is fun, and I do agree that the Golden Globes is a much better comparison. It is really fun for us to see not only familiar faces and famous faces, but to see industry faces. I don’t think there’s been a time yet, where I’ve sat at a table and not heard the best conversations around the tables.

People have new scripts they’re talking about. And I love hearing the humility and humbleness that comes with being a Canadian, and being a British Columbian, and just how good we are at what we do.

A might roar from actor Dan Payne in 2017 when took home the Leo Award for Best Lead Performance Male in a Television Movies for his role in A Time To Dance.

WD: Yeah, well, you know, we have become the third-largest production centre in North America.

And it’s built primarily on the service sector. And what I mean by that is we “make” the films. So the programs, the TV movies, for example, that you mentioned, they may very well be financed in the United States, they may very well be owned by American companies, and they may very well be broadcast on American television stations - yet they come to us to make them, and we’ve become very, very good at that.

We’re known as much for our expertise in making the programs as we are in developing and having that independent sector. And we have some very quiet leaders among us as again, not only recognizable people, but people who have a body of work going back beyond 20 years - people that have been groundbreaking in their work that has been adopted.

CAT: So how do you get a Leo award?

WD: Well, the first thing you have to do is you have to enter the program. You have to determine which categories you’d like to enter. So that’s the first step - simply entering. We’ve averaged about 1,500 entries a year.

They’re Leo’s first family for over 20 years - from left, Tamara Daroshin, Walter Daroshin, Tina Thorndycraft and Misha Daroshin.

And so then we gather industry professionals and people to adjudicate. They screen all of the material. They’re mostly what I like to call cinematic polymaths. We don’t have branch style adjudication. We don’t have just actors adjudicating acting or directors adjudicating directing.

We have a group of individuals who have a wide variety of experiences, and they determine what they feel is best realized. And then, of course, we go to ballots and send all of the materials to our accountants, and they are determined through tabulation. And what the results are. And then we throw a party and people awards. There you go.

CAT: Wow. That’s amazing.

WD: Well, it’s a process, and you may not agree with it, but I can absolutely guarantee you that there’s a considerable amount of consciousness and attention paid to every aspect of what we do.

An incredible amount of work goes into this, and we get to see the sparkly results at the end of it.

CAT: And that, of course, is my favourite part. And for the public, we do love seeing all the famous faces on the stage. For instance, Brent Butt and his wife Nancy Robertson, of Corner Gas fame, are well known Leo Award winners and hosts. John Cassini, Steve Bacic, Sonya Salomaa - all names we know from made for tv movies and more. Drew and Johnathan Scott, The Property Brothers they’ve walked the red carpet. And many more.

From 2017 - Paul McGillion poses with more Leo royalty in producer Sonny Wong. Sonny and business partner Walter Daroshin (above) are credited as two of the founders of the Leo Awrds.

WD: There’s so many. We really do try and celebrate our own community, and they’re all absolutely wonderful.

CAT: Correct me again if I’m wrong. But I heard that this year’s nominations also included Robert Downey Jr. and Iggy Pop. Tell us about that.

WD: This year, there were two individuals in particular whose names jumped out at me when I saw the nominations list. And one, of course, was Robert Downey Jr, who was an executive producer on a documentary series that’s focused on artificial intelligence - and the other one program actually won the Leo for the same category documentary series. The program series was called Punk, and one of the producers was Iggy Pop. So yes, Iggy Pop is going to be awarded a Leo Award this year.

CAT: So Iggy is going to have one of those spectacular statues sitting on his mantle. Wow! Now that’s Derik Murray that produces that series, isn’t it? We’ve featured him in our magazines before.

It takes two baby! No Leos are complete without these two sweethearts. Actors/ twins Joyce and Jacqueline Robbins are sensational, especially in the short film Mina and Minerva.

File photos used with permission: Wendy D Photo, Diane Smithers, Norm Lee, Phillip Chin, Steph Schumann, Alistair Eagle, Catherine Barr

WD: So yes, I am Heath Ledger. I am Chris Farley. Facing Ali. There are quite a few of them that have been produced over the years. Derik is very prolific.

CAT: Tell us about this year. The 2020 Leo Awards, like everybody else, adjustments had to be made. But the show must go on. Tell us how you did it in 2020 with the virtual award ceremony?

Kristin Kreuk, Smallville’s Lana Lang, and Lou Diamond Phillips, of LaBamba and Young Guns movie fame, present during the 2010 Leo Awards.

WD: Well, we were fortunate in that there were three significant awards programs that were taking place prior to ours. We had already made the decision, given the circumstances of the COVID the pandemic that we were going to have to go virtual. We weren’t able to put 800 people in a room together so that that decision was made. And then we were able to witness the events unfolding - at the Canadian Screen Awards, which is Canada’s national program, the Rocky Awards, which is based in Alberta (that has an international flavour to it as well), and the Daytime Emmy Awards, which is a big, US-based program. We were able to watch and screen those three programs in advance of confirming how we were going to structure ours.

They were all wonderfully done. Very highly, highly polished professional, as you can imagine. But the one thing that we noticed was there was a bit of a lack of the human component. Everything was pre-recorded. What was missing was the live element. And so what we decided to do was to offer that opportunity for our award recipients to stand by in a [virtual] wait room during our programming. If their name was called, they would be able to “Zoom” in to the program and say whatever they wanted to say.

CAT: So you got that anticipation element. And you got that surprise announcement. And you managed to build that in. How wonderful.

WD: Yeah, it was scary. I have to admit, because there’s no boundaries. We only had one F-bomb over three nights [laughing]. So never you never know what’s going to happen when you go live.

But it did work.

She sings, she dances, she’s got talent to spare. Beverley Elliott is a delight to behold, especially when she opens the big show with one of her famous parody songs.

In the moment, it was probably traumatic for the individual. But in hindsight, I find that these are humorous. People were getting their awards, and they had forgotten to unmute themselves so we couldn’t hear what they were saying. So a lot of the technical issues that we experienced were on the other end. We were so concerned with our end that we forgot that these are human beings who were maybe doing this for the first time.

CAT: That just adds to the charm of all of this. And I think that the charm is an element that the Leo Awards have a natural built-in ability to communicate. Walter, the last two minutes belong to you.

What holds for next year’s Leo Awards?

WD: That’s a very difficult question, too. We just don’t know. I suppose we’re entering into September. By this point, there would have been a number of productions completed and wrapped.

So when it comes to the November timeframe, when we traditionally have our call for entries, we’re not quite sure what to expect. What is it we’re going to actually be celebrating next year?

Tantoo Cardinal, who also is a Member of the Order of Canada, may best be known for her role in Dances with Wolves, but her work extends far beyond that of the Hollywood screen.

I believe very strongly in what we do, I believe that celebrating the work and acknowledging the artistic achievement within our community is an equal measure important to the economic aspect of what we do. You know, we often say, ‘Oh, $3.6 billion and 55,000 people employed’, - and that’s true and wonderful, and we should applaud that. But my focus has always been on the artistic and the creative aspects of the industry. And that’s all I can kind of do is just hold on to that and move forward with it.

CAT: Well, as we’ve said before, and we’ll say forever - the show must go on. And thanks to brilliant people like Walter Daroshin and your team, it will. Well, that’s a wrap with Walter Daroshin, President, Leo Awards. Thank you so much for chatting with us today. We hope you’ll stay in touch - and save as a smile.

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Dr. Bonnie Henry Photo Credit: Government of BC / Flicker

Not since talk show legend Jack Webster made “9 am - precisely!” his signature catchphrase have British Columbians so diligently kept a broadcast appointment to hear another British Columbian.

The 3 pm briefings by Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry were daily in spring, during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. The two-thirds health lecture, onethird news conference (with Health Minister Adrian Dix) was reduced to twice a week in summer.

How much do you really know about the Doc with the Fluevog shoes?

HENRY IS A WINE AFICIONADO In 2006, she co-founded the Clos du Soleil winery in Keremeos with a group that included her then-husband Spencer Massie of the Sixpence Group. Henry and Massie met in the Royal Canadian Navy.

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There’s the famous pink Fluevog “fundraiser” shoes - but there’s also other items on the menu. There’s a Bonnie Henry Blonde Ale from Marten Brewing Co. in Vernon. The Burgoo eateries boast a Bonnie Henry cocktail featuring prosecco, lavender, lemon and, what else, her winery’s Clos du Soleil Pinot Blanc over ice. Meanwhile, closer to her James Bay home, Victoria’s The Ruby restaurant includes the Dr. Bonnie Benny (eggs benedict, crab cakes on a bagel with tomato and hollandaise).

IN THE NAVY Henry’s career has come full circle. She had posts in Pakistan and Uganda for the World Health Organization and Toronto Public Health. But her first major gig after med school at Dalhousie University in Halifax was 30 years ago at CFB Esquimalt. Duties included being the medical officer aboard HMCS Annapolis, HMCS Provider and HMCS Regina. “As a medical officer, my job was 90% boredom and 10% panic,” she told the base’s Lookout Newspaper.

You’d never know it from all her face-time this year, but Henry admitted to this big regret in the B.C. Medical Journal in 2018: “Not being a better communicator to my patients, colleagues, family, and friends.”

OLYMPICS LEGACY The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics were held during the H1N1 pandemic and Henry was part of the medical team while at the B.C. Centre for Disease Control. A decade later, she remains tuned-in to mega-events as a member of the World Health Organization’s mass gatherings expert group that includes International Olympic Committee medical and scientific director Richard Budgett and FIFA medical director Andrew Massey.

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Congrats to Jonathon Hutchinson, left, and Alden Au, right, on their recent belt promotions as awarded by Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) black belt instructor and MMA filmaker Stuart Cooper, centre, at Diaz Combat Sports. Safe sports training is important for all our athletes.

Sticking it out in the heat in West Vancouver for his 14-day isolation was movie star Ryan Phillippe who had no bones about posting to Instagram about how much he loved his rental home, but was wishing for some air conditioning to go with his Kokanee. #repost @ryanphillippe

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Being diagnosed with Parkinson’s can be devastating - but helping raise hope and funds with the Porridge for Parkinson’s North Shore is all part of the fight for Carlota Lee, left, event chair Bjorn Moller and Rochelle Moller. If you missed out on your chance, you can still donate at www.pacificparkinsons.org

Helping deliver over 500 gift boxes and bowls for the socially safe and virtual Porridge for Parkinson’s North Shore fundraiser are delivery crew volunteers Michele Huebner and Leah O’Neill. Great work everyone!

Love will find a way, even during a pandemic.

Vancouver Canucks legend and NHL celebrity netminder ‘Captain Kirk’ McLean won the hand of Genevieve Duford during a beautiful private ceremony with family last month.

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Michelle Capobianco, CEO Pancreatic Cancer Canada, left, seen here with sponsor Garry Zlotnik, of ZLC Financial and Cyndi Ankenman, is delighted to receive a cheque for $130,000 from the Brian Jessel BMW Cabriolet on behalf of the national organization.

Devina Zalesky, President of Allwest Insurance, is part of the cheque presentation celebration to Pancreatic Cancer Canada alongside Jim Murray, CEO Brian Jessel BMW. The gala was cancelled this year due to Covid-19 but nonetheless managed to raise $130,000 for this very worthwhile cause.

Brian Jessel (President of Brian Jessel BMW) speaks at a scaled-down, socially distanced version of the cheque celebration at his dealership. Even Covid-19 couldn’t stop the fight against pancreatic cancer. Congrats!

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Helping raise money for pancreatic cancer at the Cabriolet cheque presentation are sponsors Delmira Sumner and Boyd Sumner, VP of Enterprise Holdings.

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01 OptiBike www.optibike.com Be the king of the hill on this off-road beast.

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Very cool, very rare. A true Nike classic that is typically a special order if you can find it. Featuring a hand warmer and soft, durable fabric that will last a long time. The small, yet obvious swoosh on the front is the finishing touch. Be comfortable this season and make a statement doing it. $119 11 Thule Urban Glide 2 Stroller www.sail.ca An all-terrain stroller with a sleek, lightweight design, making it perfect for urban exploration or strolling on your favourite path. Easy to maneuver, thanks to the swivel front wheels that lock in place for jogging. Hey, it’s a jungle out there, the best equipment can certainly make a difference for you and your passenger. $580

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The Arts Club will return to live theatre, with compliance and distancing measure, with No Child at the BMO Theatre Centre. No Child is a oneperson play that transports the audience to the underfunded Malcolm X High School in the Bronx.

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September - November 8 The Polygon Gallery is pleased to present Third Realm, a group show of contemporary art from across East and Southeast Asia, marking the first new exhibition at the Gallery since its re-opening with Covid-19 safety restrictions. Third Realm showcases a crucial period of artistic production from 2004 to 2019 through photography, video, drawing, and installation by seminal contemporary art figures.

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