Episode 359: In The Seats With...Maxwell McCabe-Lokos and 'Stanleyville'

Sometimes we've got to embrace the absurd...On this episode we're taking a trip to 'Stanleyville' and talking with co-writer and director Maxwell McCabe-Lokos.Stanleyville is the story of a dissatisfied woman who abandons her career and her family when she gets the chance to compete in a bizarre and dangerously flawed contest. The prize: a brand new habanero-orange compact SUV.Think of the cinema of Luis Bunuel mixed with the Stanford Prison Experiment and a dash of Squid Game and you've got 'Stanleyville' which is a fine piece of Canadian filmmaking which we got to see at Fantasia last year and is now coming soon to audiences everywhere including a screening at the Revue Cinema here in downtown Toronto tomorrow night with a special Q&A hosted by yours truly.We got the unique pleasure of sitting down with Maxwell to talk about the origins of the story, the challenges of filmmaking (especially during the pandemic) and the question on all of our minds....why was the SUV habenero-orange....