It’s peak season for the film industry in Nova Scotia, with hundreds of sets calling “action” all over the province. Team Coast is keeping track of the ever-growing biz (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”) with weekly updates […]
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Live theatre, art exhibits, comedy, literary, spoken word – The Coast guide to Halifax and Dartmouth, NS . The downtown, local arts scene – plays, writers, actors, artists and performers. Painting, sculpture, photography, stand-up, stage.
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UPDATED: Shelburne area wildfires cause closure of Black Loyalist Heritage Centre
The unprecedented wildfires in Nova Scotia continue today, with the burning in Shelburne County now being called one of the biggest wildfires in the province’s history, as Global news reports. As a reported 17,602 hectares of a wooded area in the province’s southwestern pocket continues to blaze, about 5,000 people have been evacuated. Amongst the […]
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Two Dora-winning playwrights are making a musical about Frenchy’s, the iconic chain of Nova Scotian thrift stores
Update: Since originally filing this story, I heard from a Mr. Dale Fawthrop telling me about the original musical about Frenchy’s he and Ruth Cormier Nichols staged circa 2010 in Amherst. (It was a love story between a shopper and stockiest that, tbh, feels like the sort of thing Kate Hudson would star in, had […]
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Telefilm funds Devour and Halifax Black Film Fest, director Fawaz Al-Matrouk making next flick in Nova Scotia, and more local film and TV news
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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Everything you need to know about the 2023 Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival
An antidote to the run-of-the-mill movie multiplex; the thing that’ll make your Letterboxd (the Goodreads of movies) profile 10 times cooler; a bunch of outside-the-box films so boundary-pushing we’re already craving popcorn: The Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival is a flick freak’s dream come true, showing features and shorts from around the world and across the […]
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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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Everyseeker 2023 announces first names for festival lineup
Everyseeker—the wild, weird, boundary-pushing music and art festival that always punches above its weight—announced a list of names that’ll be performing at this year’s event in a newsletter it sent out this week. While show details for the fest—which is slated to run from June 14-18—are still TBD, we’re excited at the sight of some […]
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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 […]
