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Author: Dakota Arsenault

Dakota Arsenault is the creator, host, producer and editor of Contra Zoom Pod. His favourite movies include The Life Aquatic, 12 Angry Men, Rafifi and Portrait of a Lady on Fire. He first started the podcast back in April of 2015 and has produced well over 300 episodes. Dakota is also a co-founder of the Cascadian Film and Television Critics Association.

223: 2023 Oscar Nomination Reactions

January 25, 2023

With the Oscar nominations announced just yesterday, Rachel and Dakota react to who is up for the industries highest honours. We discuss the lack…

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Guest Appearance: The Oscars Death Race Podcast [S2023E06] – Predicting Oscar Nominations with ContraZoomPod (+BAFTA Results)

January 20, 2023

Dakota joined The Oscars Death Race Podcast to predict the nominees for the 2023 Academy Awards. Host Paulo Bautista also goes over the BAFTA…

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Bonus Episode: AODR Festival Interview with Benjamin Belloir of Beautiful Stranger

January 16, 2023

On this bonus episode, I am sharing my interview with Benjamin Belloir, director of the new film Beautiful Stranger for the Academy of Death…

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222: Top Stories From 2022

January 10, 2023

We are back from our holiday break and it’s time to starting looking back on the year 2022! We discuss some of the biggest…

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Guest Appearance: The Criterion Shelf – A Tribute To Sony Pictures Classics

December 27, 2022

Every month Bil Antoniou curates an article picking a collection from The Criterion Channel and sorts its contents into categories – Must-See, Worthy, For…

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Guest Appearance: Technically a Conversation Episode 77 – A Christmas Séance

December 26, 2022

Dakota joined Technically a Conversation on their holiday teleplay where Dakota got to do some voice acting. On this special episode of Technically A…

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221: The Letterboxd Game

December 20, 2022

It’s our last show of 2022! Last year we decided to have some fun by playing a fun little game, you can check out…

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Blog: Contra Zoom Pod’s Greatest Films of All Time Poll

December 12, 2022

With the release of Sight & Sound’s latest Greatest Films of All Time poll that just came out, we decided to make one of…

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220: Contra Zoom Pod’s Greatest Films of all Time

December 12, 2022

It’s finally here! With the release of the British Film Institute’s Sight and Sound Great Films of all Time poll came out on December…

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219: A24 Retrospective – The Captive

December 6, 2022

We continue our series going through the entire catalog of A24’s films. On this episode we are looking at 2014’s The Captive directed by…

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