The big picture in movie-making right now is split-screen in focus: Massive movie deals being made at a record-level-attendee Cannes film festival and the ongoing Hollywood writers’ strike. Cut to Nova Scotia, though, and the scene is different: High season for the film and TV industry is rolling onwards, with film crews across the province […]
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Have you seen the new mural on Agricola Street?
Some people send a suitcase or two in advance of a cross-country move, but not Jasmin Amoako. Forget checked luggage, never mind a carry-on: When the artist swapped Ontario for Nova Scotia in 2022 (she’s a master’s student at NSCAD), she sent ahead plans for one of the most eye-catching new public art installations on […]
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Director Thom Fitzgerald makes a new movie, Fawzia Mirza’s directorial feature wraps and more local film and TV news
Temperatures keep heating up in Halifax as summer’s arrival looms, but one corner that’s already red-hot? The city’s film and TV sector, which is riding an ever-rising wave according to statistics from the province (“The film industry contributed about $180.8 million to Nova Scotia’s economy in 2021-22 up from about $78 million in 2019-20 and […]
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The Screen Nova Scotia awards crowned its 2022-2023 winners
On Saturday night, the who’s who of local film poured into Casino Nova Scotia’s Schooner Room, a sold-out crowd of industry insiders ready to see what Nova Scotian films would be crowned by Screen Nova Scotia’s annual awards. Here’s a recap of who won what: Best Feature Film went to Ashley McKenzie’s second feature, Queens […]
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Halifax producer Terry Greenlaw has new film, Wildhood director Bretten Hannam funds new movie, and more in this week’s film news
Another week, another call for “action” on film sets across the city as shooting season heats up. As the local film and TV sector continues to grow—in a press release from last May, the province says “the film industry contributed about $180.8 million to Nova Scotia’s economy in 2021-22”—Team Coast is keeping tabs on new […]
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What does the Hollywood writers’ strike mean for Nova Scotia film?
The first Hollywood work stoppage in 16 years—the film and TV industry’s first strike since 2007—has brought many productions to a halt, and even late-night shows like Saturday Night Live have gone dark. As the Writers Guild of America—which represents 11,500 TV and film writers, according to The New York Times—goes up against major Hollywood […]
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Art from the Amazon and the Arctic arrives at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Even though the third floor of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia’s north building is closed to the public, a cacophony of noise fills the space. Competing chanting from two nearby video installations cross over one another, while the adjoining hallway’s vermillion-red walls are loud enough to register over both. Around the corner, a dozen […]
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Halifax has Broadway fever. Thankfully, Neptune’s here to help satisfy our craving.
It’d be a stretch, really, to say that director Jeremy Webb has lived the real-life version of his latest play, Neptune’s season-closing musical Billy Elliot, the story of a young ballet dancer in 1980s England going against his parents and peers to chase his dream. But it’s no reach at all to say Webb can […]
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Comedy saved my life. Seriously.
While a sense of triumph usually waits until the end of a performance, there’ll be a quiet, thrumming victory felt from the moment comedian Alva Sparkles takes the stage at Yuk Yuk’s on May 10. As host and MC of The Best Medicine—a show she created that’s giving all proceeds to the Mental Health Foundation […]
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Trailer Park Boys wrap and pawnshop guy comes back in this week’s film news
Another week, another call for “action” on film sets across the city as shooting season heats up. As the local film and TV sector continues to grow—in a press release from last May, the province says “the film industry contributed about $180.8 million to Nova Scotia’s economy in 2021-22”—Team Coast is keeping tabs on new […]
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Scene and heard: What’s being filmed, streamed and screened in Nova Scotia right now
When it comes to #NSFilmJobs, business is definitely booming—or at least, so says the province: “The film industry contributed about $180.8 million to Nova Scotia’s economy in 2021-22 up from about $78 million in 2019-20 and $91.6 million in 2020-21,” a release from last June stated. Now, as another banner year in the industry unfurls, […]
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Shakespeare By The Sea announces 30th summer season
When curtain time finally arrives for Shakespeare By The Sea’s opening night performance of Romeo and Juliet (one of two shows that comprise the veteran theatre company’s 2023 summer season, which is also its 30th), associate artistic director and play director Drew Douris-O’Hara will be ready, primed, equipped, toes already waiting behind the metaphorical start […]