EOTP 010 | Interview with Floyd Kane - Empathize Others: The Podcast

11/25/21 • 61 min

Interview with Floyd Kane - Augy sits down to film/TV writer & producer Floyd Kane. Floyd is garnering the attention of many in the television landscape as his legal drama "Diggstown" is receiving critical acclaim on both CBC and Fox networks. With his usual focus on community conversations, Augy listens as Floyd chronicles his deep connection to the historic African Nova Scotian community of East Preston, his experiences at the infamous Cole Harbour high school, his less than positive introduction to the work world in Nova Scotia and his steady rise to the top of the Canadian screenwriting community. As the discussion grows, listeners will start to see Floyd's passion for representing his community in an authentic (and untold) manner on-screen. To end this fantastic episode, Floyd describes the thoughts that went into his ground-breaking university scholarship that he set up to support up & coming ANS writers in a uniquely community-oriented fashion.
Diggstown on CBC:
https://www.cbc.ca/diggstown/
Floyd Kane on IMDB:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1710548/
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Empathize Others: The Podcast - EOTP 010 | Interview with Floyd Kane - Empathize Others: The Podcast

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EOTP 010 Interview with Floyd Kane
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[00:00:00] Augy: Welcome back to the podcast today, I'm fired up about the guests that we have and we have great guests, but today is a superstar guest. And if you're watching TV and streaming shows right now, especially when it comes to dramas, there was a show on CBC and on Fox network that is hot, hot, hot, and that is Diggstown.
And so today I'm so pleased to talk to the creator and writer for Diggstown, but also someone who's from Nova Scoti