Season Finale: Rachel Talalay

The YVR Screen Scene Podcast

Rachel Talalay is a film and television director and a producer. That’s how her Wikipedia entry opens, and while accurate, it fails to capture just how punk rock Rachel is, how entertaining her work is, and the myriad of emotions that work conjures up in people. Rachel’s work spans many genres, from horror films like Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, to the seminal comic book film Tank Girl, to the dramatic film On The Farm, about the women who were preyed upon by serial killer Robert Pickton on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, to A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting, a spirited family film about a babysitter who embarks on a dangerous mission to save a child who has been abducted by monsters. Rachel has also directed episodes of some of the most entertaining television series of the 21st century, including Sherlock, Riverdale, The Flash, Supergirl, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and seven episodes of Doctor Who, including “Heaven Sent,” one of the most beautiful and critically episodes in the series’ history. In the season finale of the YVR Screen Scene Podcast, we get to know the remarkable artist behind some of our favourite works of art, and give her the origin story treatment befitting any one of the shows she’s directed. Episode sponsor: Fish Flight Entertainment