Filmmaker Brandy Yanchyk is busy planning the next steps for her production company Brandy Y Productions Inc. which will include corporate work. This is one avenue that has been very successful lately. Of course Brandy will be making more travel series like Seeing Canada as soon as she can! This photo is of Brandy Yanchyk strategizing with Kymberley Hill from the brand storytelling company Paper Road in Banff. This mentorship is being offered to Brandy Yanchyk by the Banff World Media Festival & Strategy as part of the #BANFFSpark program. Brandy Yanchyk was chosen as Cohort 2 of the BANFF Spark Accelerator for Women in the Business of Media. It's an important new initiative to help increase the representation of women entrepreneurs in the media sector. #investinwomen #womeninmedia #banff2021 #SchoolofBrandy

"Breaking Loneliness" is a documentary about people finding ways to escape loneliness and social isolation.

This Friday, November 13th #BreakingLoneliness will be airing on AMI-tv at 8pm ET across Canada. Tune in.

Loneliness is a social epidemic that is impacting all age groups around the world. Although most of us are connected on social media, we have never felt more alone. Many of us find ourselves isolated from our communities and feeling lonely.

In this new documentary, Breaking Loneliness, we follow four people; Indigenous Peer Support Worker John Chief Moon, 2SLGBTQ+ Liaison and Peer Support Worker Jace Laing-Schroeder, volunteer Tom Greyson and ESL teacher Julie Kraychy — who have worked to overcome their own loneliness and social isolation and are now helping others to battle theirs.

Read all about Brandy Yanchyk's new documentary Attachments of Life in the Edmonton Journal today! There's a full page story all about it. Click here to read the article online.

#AttachmentsofLife is coming online on CBC GEM tomorrow and on #CBC TV at 7pm on October 31st in Alberta and BC.

Thank you Leduc County for organizing the online screening of filmmaker Brandy Yanchyk’s documentary Breaking Loneliness on October 15th, 2020. It was so wonderful to connect virtually with people from rural Leduc County, New Sarepta, Calmar, Thorsby and Warburg in Alberta. Thank you Drive Happiness for participating.

“Can Our Belongings Dictate Our Lives?”

Filmmaker Brandy Yanchyk had a chat with Russell Bowers of Daybreak Alberta about her new documentary Attachments of Life. Have a listen.

You can watch the new documentary on CBC GEM on October 30th and on CBC TV at 7pm on October 31st in Alberta and BC. #AttachmentsOfLife

“A new documentary airs starting October 30 on CBC and it's about how our belongings can alter our life and the decisions we make. It's called "Attachments of Life" and in it, you'll meet Howard, who collects Rolls Royces, Peggy who's a hoarder, Lesa who lost everything in a house fire and flood, as well as Marni & Kevin, who sold off everything to live in a tiny house. Edmonton film-maker, Brandy Yanchyk, found these 4 Alberta stories and collected them into this new film that debuts on the CBC Gem. The director spoke with Russell from her home.” - https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-95-daybreak-alberta/clip/15804920-can-our-belongings-dictate-our-lives

On September 30th it is Orange Shirt Day and we honour the Indigenous children who were sent away to residential schools in Canada and learn more about the history of those schools.
In September 2020, Brandy Yanchyk was asked to film two survivors who spoke about their experiences in the documentary “Every Child Matters: Reconciliation Through Education” created for the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.
Brandy filmed survivors Phil Fontaine in Calgary and Chief Wilton Littlechild in Maskwacis.
To learn more about the full broadcast of this program please visit this link: https://education.nctr.ca
You can also watch the two videos online here anytime:
Every Child Matters: Truth - Act One
https://youtu.be/SFTHHtRy8Do
Every Child Matters: Reconciliation - Act Two
https://youtu.be/kbbb5-Xp1Ys