All Roads Leads To Magic City follows struggling Canadian actor Amanda Cordner as she interviews top earning performers and entrepreneurs to ask if she should become a Magic City stripper to build an empire.
Based on the documentary series in development.
The art of clowning and stripping Ft. Manuel Rodriguez-Saenz | Ep. 11
Amanda Cordner speaks with actor and writer Manuel Rodriguez-Saenz, a therapeutic clown and actor, about using storytelling to navigate multiple artistic careers and finding humor in unexpected places.
21 Nov 2024
Your wealth is your network Ft. Monica Mustelier | Ep. 10
Amanda Cordner speaks with director Monica Mustelier about making art on your own terms, funding artists, and embracing sensuality and comedy in her latest episode of All Roads Lead To Magic City.
15 Nov 2024
Art will always find a way to you Ft. Berend McKenzie | Ep. 9
Amanda Cordner speaks to writer and actor Berend McKenzie about the stories behind their critically acclaimed plays, Amanda and Berend’s shared love-hate relationship with Alberta, being made to feel like an outlier in your community, how Amanda’s role on ‘Sort Of’ inspired Berend, their advice to artists with broken illusions of opportunity in the entertainment industry, and how art will always find a way to you if you have an artist’s heart.
Amanda: instagram.com/theamandacordner (instagram.com/theamandacordner)
Berend: instagram.com/berendmckenzie (https://www.instagram.com/berendmckenzie/)
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Executive Produced by Amanda Cordner
Produced and Directed by Clark Park Films and Monica Mustelier
Produced by Stephanie Cowan
Edited by Luana Hesse
7 Nov 2024
Does beauty matter to commercial success? Ft. Allana Davis | Ep. 8
Amanda Cordner speaks to entrepreneur and skin therapist Allana Davis about how she overcomes lack mindset and imposter syndrome, double standards of beauty for women of colour, how some heads of departments of hair and makeup working in television don’t even know how to style Black hair, Allana’s advice to young people working in beauty spaces, how selfishness can be a revolutionary form of caring for yourself and those around you, and the way their mutual friend (and director of this show!) Monica influences both Allana and Amanda to push through their insecurities.
Amanda: instagram.com/theamandacordner (instagram.com/theamandacordner)
Allana: instagram.com/allanadavisstudio (instagram.com/allanadavisstudio)
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Clark Park Films: instagram.com/clarkparkfilms (instagram.com/clarkparkfilms)
Executive Produced by Amanda Cordner
Produced and Directed by Clark Park Films and Monica Mustelier
Produced by Stephanie Cowan
Edited by Luana Hesse
30 Oct 2024
Development hell can be nice Ft. Lisa Benedetto | All Roads Lead To Magic City with Amanda Cordner Ep. 7
Amanda Cordner speaks to producer Lisa Benedetto about producing before she even knew what it was, stripping to Natasha Bedingfield, how we’re all multi-hyphenates, Canadian shows getting canceled before they find their stride, how Magic City must have a trainee program, Amanda’s stressful experience at the Canadian Screen Awards, and how overnight success is not real.
Amanda: instagram.com/theamandacordner (instagram.com/theamandacordner )
Lisa Benedetto: instagram.com/lillisab (instagram.com/lillisab)
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Clark Park Films: instagram.com/clarkparkfilms (instagram.com/clarkparkfilms)
Executive Produced by Amanda Cordner
Produced and Directed by Clark Park Films and Monica Mustelier
Produced by Stephanie Cowan
Edited by Luana Hesse
24 Oct 2024
I can’t rest on my laurels Ft. Vicki Kim | All Roads Lead To Magic City with Amanda Cordner Ep. 6
Amanda Cordner speaks to actor and writer Vicki Kim about how she harnessed her anger into cathartic standup comedy, the delusion of momentum, searching for complex roles, time spent preparing for auditions, how easy it is to look silly while pole dancing, balancing unpaid work for the sake of making art, and why auditioning for Magic City sounds easier than making it in the Canadian film industry.
Amanda: instagram.com/theamandacordner
Vicki Kim: instagram.com/thevickikim
Follow us: linktr.ee/allroadsleadtomagiccity
Clark Park Films: instagram.com/clarkparkfilms
Executive Produced by Amanda Cordner
Produced and Directed by Clark Park Films and Monica Mustelier
Produced and Edited by Stephanie Cowan
Edited by Luana Hesse
17 Oct 2024
You can be nice and still promote yourself Ft. Amira de Vera | All Roads Lead To Magic City with Amanda Cordner Ep. 5
Amanda Cordner speaks to experienced publicist Amira de Vera about the Canadian star system, how Amira overcame insecurity in her expertise while growing her business, how to kill the mindset that your work isn’t worthy enough to promote, and if Amira thinks that Amanda’s journey to become a Magic City stripper would cause a PR crisis.
Amanda: instagram.com/theamandacordner (instagram.com/theamandacordner)
Amira De Vera: instagram.com/amiradevera (instagram.com/amiradevera)
Follow us: linktr.ee/allroadsleadtomagiccity (linktr.ee/allroadsleadtomagiccity)
Clark Park Films: instagram.com/clarkparkfilms (instagram.com/clarkparkfilms)
Executive Produced by Amanda Cordner
Produced and Directed by Clark Park Films and Monica Mustelier
Produced by Stephanie Cowan
Edited by Stephanie Cowan and Luana Hesse
10 Oct 2024
I’m meant to be an artist Ft. Lisa Michelle Cornelius | All Roads Lead To Magic City with Amanda Cordner Ep. 4
Amanda Cordner speaks with multifaceted performing artist and actor Lisa Michelle Cornelius about the calling to be an artist, disrespectful casting processes, Queen Cardi B’s philosophy on owning who you are, the life-changing experience of being one of multiple Black women as leads, the ceiling of success for Canadian actors, and why Lisa Michelle doesn’t think Amanda’s road to the Magic City stage would ruin her acting career.
Amanda: instagram.com/theamandacordner (instagram.com/theamandacordner )
Lisa Michelle: instagram.com/yeslisamichelle (instagram.com/yeslisamichelle)
Follow us: linktr.ee/allroadsleadtomagiccity (linktr.ee/allroadsleadtomagiccity)
Clark Park Films: instagram.com/clarkparkfilms (instagram.com/clarkparkfilms)
3 Oct 2024
Garbage bags full of money Ft. Jay Francis | All Roads Lead To Magic City with Amanda Cordner Ep. 3
Amanda Cordner speaks with entrepreneur and expert financial advisor Jay Francis about everything from Jay’s personal experience at Magic City to what artists and creators should really be investing in, ways Amanda can bring her future wealth back into Canada, the metaphorical significance of the literal low ceilings in Toronto strip clubs, digging into the root of Amanda’s financial anxieties, the push for Canadian actors to touch ground in the U.S. to make it big, and how Michael “Magic” Barney could ever stop Amanda’s grand journey to the stage.
Amanda: instagram.com/theamandacordner (https://www.instagram.com/theamandacordner/)
Follow us: linktr.ee/allroadsleadtomagiccity (https://linktr.ee/allroadsleadtomagiccity)
Clark Park Films: instagram.com/clarkparkfilms (https://www.instagram.com/clarkparkfilms)
26 Sept 2024
We’re all dancing for daddy Ft. Nicole Guthrie | All Roads Lead To Magic City with Amanda Cordner Ep. 2
Amanda Cordner talks with the innovative entrepreneur and makeup artist Nicole Guthrie to dissect her beauty empire, the differences (or lack thereof?) between acting and stripping, and how even in corporate jobs we’re all dancing for daddy.
Amanda: IG (https://www.instagram.com/theamandacordner/)
Nicole: IG (https://www.instagram.com/iamnicoleg/)
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19 Sept 2024
Why queer and racialized artists have to create their own stories Ft. Bilal Baig | All Roads Lead To Magic City with Amanda Cordner Ep. 1
Amanda Cordner sits down with her ‘Sort Of’ co-star Bilal Baig to chat about the scarcity of chances for trans and racialized actors, the importance of chilling, what drives Bilal’s inner storyteller, and their experience at Magic City that revealed Amanda’s yellow brick road.
Bilal: instagram.com/sortofbilal (instagram.com/sortofbilal/)
Amanda: instagram.com/theamandacordner (https://www.instagram.com/theamandacordner/)
Follow us: linktr.ee/allroadsleadtomagiccity (http://linktr.ee/allroadsleadtomagiccity)
Clark Park Films: instagram.com/clarkparkfilms (http://instagram.com/clarkparkfilms)
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