When the Berlin International Film Festival opens tomorrow, Nova Scotia will be there. Cape Breton writer-director Ashley McKenzie’s new movie, Queens of the Qing Dynasty, is making its world premier at Berlinale 2022, screening several times over the course of the February 10-20 festival. Queens is in BIFF’s “encounters” section, which is “a platform aiming […]
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Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival announces 2018 lineup
The Atlantic Filmmakers’ Co-operative has announced the slate of films for its 12th installment of the Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival, this year running from June 6 to 9 in Neptune’s Scotiabank Theatre. Two features from Cape Breton filmmakers are on the lineup: Jacquelyn Mills‘ doc about her grandmother, In the Waves, screens June 7. Winston DeGiobbi‘s […]
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Congrats to 2017’s finalists for the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award
Yesterday, the three finalists for the largest annual award to any work of art in Nova Scotia—the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award—were announced. The award was established by the Honourable Myra Freeman in 2005, and is meant to recognize “the excellence of a particular work of art or design from any media.” […]
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Stick to your guns, filmmakers
Of all the art forms, film requires the most people and the most money. You can start and end a single day and have a finished song or drawing or painting. But films need many more people and you have to feed those people and if some of them are in unions then you have […]
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Cape Breton feature Werewolf to premiere at TIFF
A feature film by Cape Breton filmmaker Ashley McKenzie, and producer Nelson MacDonald will make its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the fest announced this morning. Werewolf, is McKenzie’s first feature and was shot entirely in and around New Waterford, the filmmakers’ hometown. MacDonald, Werewolf’s producer says he and McKenzie wanted […]
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Still thinking about Rhonda’s Party
With shorts, the filmmakers deliberately size down their films. They are not necessarily being downsized by someone or something else. From the Atlantic Shorts III program, which screened on the first Monday night of the festival, one film in particular demonstrated the big impression a small film can make. Rhonda’s Party, the seven-minute movie from […]