Donna Davies

Halifax based filmmaker Donna Davies’ new documentary on CBC-TV’s Land and Sea wouldn’t have been possible without some moonshine. Not necessarily the ingestion of it, but interviews from a previous documentary involving the trade on her native PEI. A search for interview subjects brought her to the town of Souris and its ferry port to the Magdalen Islands, five hours off the coast, under Quebec jurisdiction. Recent years have shown a surge in population in the remote area. “A lot of people were going away to places like Montreal or Toronto, but the quality of life was so great on