Redefining the Counter Culture

Interview: Katie Carpenter

Interview with House of Cards & The Haunting of Hill House Star ---Katie Carpenter.

Interview: Harry Locke IV

Film Director HARRY LOCKE - director (The Wolverine, Gotham),

City of Gold stars VERNON WELLS - star (Commando, Mad Max 2)

Interview: Katreese Barnes

Music Director, Composer, Producer, Emmy Award Winner & Saturday Night Live Alum, Katreese Barnes.

Interview: Dylan Avery

Dylan Avery, writer-director of the well-known 9/11 documentary LOOSE CHANGE, is back with a film just as confronting and powerful - BLACK AND BLUE, the story of police brutality, racial issues and social justice in America.

interview: Grant Fuhr

Upstream Flix is partnering again with Award winning producer Adam Scorgie (Ice Guardians, The Culture High, Inmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo) in conjunction with Oilers Entertainment Group VP Don Metz and Co-Producer Shane Fennessey for Making Coco: The Grant Fuhr Story.  Upstream Flix plan to release the film in late 2018.

Don Metz directs this captivating cinematic chronicle on one of the most celebrated, yet enigmatic goalies in the history of the NHL. The feature has been announced as the closing Gala film at the Calgary International Film Festival. 

Featured contributors in the documentary include Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier, Martin Brodeur, Brett Hull, Chris Pronger and many more of the NHL’s royalty.

Fuhr, along with a number of his teammates, will provide a never-before-seen exclusive look into the high-flying Oilers dynasty of the 80’s, what made them so successful, and the infamous challenges that they faced. All-time rivals will speak to what it was like playing against the greatest goalie on the greatest team in the NHL’s 100-year history. Those closest to Grant will take the audience on a journey behind the mask to understand who the mixed-race superstar truly is. 

Barely 19, Grant ‘Coco’ Fuhr became starting goalie for the most exciting team in NHL history. In his mid-30’s, he played 76 consecutive and 79 total games in an 82-game season to set two league records, then followed that ironman performance by playing 73 the following season on a completely rebuilt knee. During the decade and a half between, he employed his acrobatic style and cat-like reflexes to backstop five Stanley Cup champions and two Canada Cup winners, cementing a reputation as the ultimate “money goalie”. He also got himself demoted to the minors for calling the hometown fans jerks, announced his retirement at the age of 26 in an attempt to force a famously hard-nosed general manager to renegotiate a long-term contract, and was suspended for an entire NHL season for conduct deemed “dishonourable and against the welfare of the league” for substance use, only to return and redeem himself as one of the game’s true greats. 

“I think he’s the best goaltender in the history of the NHL.” - Wayne Gretzky

Interview: Kate Linder

Kate Linder received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on April 10, 2008 and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Y&R co-creator Lee Phillip Bell and castmate Jeanne Cooper spoke at her well-attended ceremony.  Kate had roles in the feature films Hysteria (2012) and Erased (2013), Miss Meadows (2014), Garry Marshall's Mother's Day (2016) and The Charnel House. Linder wrapped several more upcoming features including Charlie Matthau's Book of Leah, Stereotypically You, Voice from the Stone and her latest, Dead Love.

If you're Kate Linder, you don't quit your job as a United Airlines flight attendant because you’re cast for a one-day, one-line role on The Young and the Restless. Linder has done both jobs simultaneously for the 36 years she’s been on the #1 rated soap opera (that’s #1 every single week for 32 years) in daytime television -- with the resulting confusion among passengers creating hilarious anecdotes. The passenger/fan response has been overwhelming and incredulous. Fortunately, she’s been working only the first-class section for decades and unlike Linder, none of her co-workers there have graced the covers of soap opera magazines. She was preparing for take-off on a flight when the late Johnny Grant called to inform her she had been selected for a Star on the Walk of Fame. Linder is also active with the USO, visiting troops in the US, in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Korea and Guantanamo Bay. In late ’05, Linder was elected Governor of the Daytime Programming Peer Group of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (yup, the folks who put on the Emmys), she was reelected in ’07 for a second two-year stint. She is currently an active and longtime board member for SAG-AFTRA.

 

Linder, as Esther Valentine (so named because Linder was married on Valentine’s Day), confidante/ housekeeper to the soap’s wealthy and powerful matron, Katherine Chancellor (portrayed by the late Jeanne Cooper) has often been called upon to add a touch of humor to the show. Her character has been perennially unlucky in love and her two brief marriages were to con men only after the Chancellor fortune.  She and her boss were twice kidnapped in pursuit of the same fortune.  

Kate is an eternal optimist and tireless worker for many charities and was named celebrity spokesperson for The ALS Association in early 2005. Her late brother-in-law was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) in December, 2004 and Kate has gone to Washington, DC each May to lobby for more funds to fight this disease with no cure. In 2006, Linder won the organization’s All-Star Award for her passionate service to the cause and won their Packman Award in 2007 and their One Starry Night Award in 2016.  Kate travels around the country to participate in and encourage other volunteers at the ALS Association’s fundraisers, Walk to Defeat ALS, and in their fundraising dinners for local chapters. She’s also active with many AIDS charities and the Los Angeles Mission. In addition, Linder hosts three annual charity teas with a rotating group of her castmates, one for Canucks for Kids each July in Vancouver and another two in Toronto and Calgary for March of Dimes Canada’s Conductive Education® (CE) program for children and adults with neuro-motor disabilities, Linder is the celebrity ambassador for the latter program.

Virgin Blacktop: A New York Skate Odyssey

Interview With Filmmaker Charlie Samuels.

Documentary Spotlight: Trapped In a Culture

In this riveting interview, Walter speaks with Filmmaker Lelia Wills on her newest documentary; Trapped In a Culture. The Documentary shines a light on the child sexual abuse allegations against Afrika Bambaataa and the Zulu Nation.

Interview: Rosemary Hochschild,

SUPERGIRL actress Rosemary Hochschild, plays 'Vita' on the hit CW series. Hochschild, a veteran actress whose credits include DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN with Madonna, is promoting her starring role in the new Tarantino-esque crime drama THE QUEEN OF HOLLYWOOD BLVD, which hits theaters and VOD this month.

On SUPERGIRL, Hochschild plays Vita, a dark priestess and member of the Worldkiller Coven. She joined Selena and Ayala to resurrect Reign and terraform Earth into "New Krypton."

Hochschild stars in real-life son Orson Oblowitz's new film THE QUEEN OF HOLLYWOOD BLVD, playing the lead role of a club owner in trouble with the mob.

Interview: Comedian Michael Scott

A candid interview with Actor & Comedian Michael Scott on his newest web series, plus the culture of comedy in today's heated political climate.