Part 01 – Movie People

From Cool Runnings to The Revenant and Brokeback Mountain to The Last of Us––Cinematic starpower didn’t just happen to Alberta. So how did we get here?

In Part 1, Liam and Ingrid chat with author Mary Graham about her seminal work A Stunning Backdrop (2022), which outlines Alberta’s storied film history from 1917–1960. This new work contextualizes and sheds light on the province’s distant beginnings, star power and the contributions of Alberta’s Indigenous Peoples, whose mutually-beneficial relationship with Hollywood helped usher in a new age of economic and creative possibilities for the province.