Episode Forty-Six: Jason Bourque

Episode Forty-Six: Jason Bourque

Sabrina Furminger
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Jason Bourque is the Indiana Jones of the Vancouver film and television industry. He’s a filmmaking adventurer who has traveled far and wide to bring his breathtaking stories to the big screen. Jason spent four months in Doha, Qatar filming Medinah, the world’s first Arabic and English science fiction series, and traveled to Mumbai, India to film several key scenes for Drone, his 2017 subversive political drama that starred Sean Bean and Patrick Sabongui.

Jason didn’t go quite as far for Black Fly, his 2014 thriller about a pair of brothers, one of whom happens to be a serial killer, but it was no less atmospheric – and being an in-demand director of television movies, he’s had to bring his director’s toolkit to all manner of exterior locations all over the Lower Mainland. Jason is also a busy producer who has several projects cooking at the moment, including Godrey, an independent starring Cleopatra Coleman, Nick Thune, and Iliza Shlesinger, and not one but two Telefilm features, including one directed by friend of the podcast Shannon Kohli.

In this compelling interview, Jason talks about blowing up a car in India and staging a murder in the GVRD, the issues faced by Canadian directors who want to direct on American productions, the dangers of having an argument within Jason’s earshot, and what it was like to grow up next door to a serial killer. 

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