Gold Winner Jonathan Torrens Silver Winner Susan Kent Bronze Winner Koumbie Jonathan Torrens’ biggest gigs in the past year weren’t actually televised, unless you had a particular Eastlink subscription: A sharp and funny return to hosting the East Coast Music Awards, which he’ll do again in his home province of Prince Edward Island next year; […]
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Best Filmmaker
Gold Winner Andrea Dorfman Silver Winner Koumbie Bronze Winner Josh Owen It’s been a busy year for Andrea Dorfman: Her searing NFB documentary The Girls of Meru, about child defilement in Africa, debuted at the Atlantic International Film Festival just as her latest feature, Spinster—the reason for all those Chelsea Peretti sightings—wrapped shooting. “I love […]
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Three Haligonian productions nab Telefilm feature funding
Three Nova Scotia production teams have been awarded funding for their debut feature films in Telefilm’s annual Talent to Watch program. Heather Young, whose short Milk premiered at TIFF and is still ripping up the festival circuit, and producer Martha Cooley will make Murmur. Taylor Olson will direct an adaptation of Catherine Banks‘ play Bone Cage with […]
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Made for TV with Cinema 902
Cinema 902 Saturdays on Eastlink TV, 11pm repeating Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday Often you have to wait for a film festival or one-off screening to catch locally made movies, but Cinema 902‘s been offering up a slate of Halifax-created features since January. And beginning at the top of this month, the program—airing on Eastlink TV at […]
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In the room where it happened
The Zuppa Theatre Co. has made plays set locally before—Penny Dreadful takes place in a Nova Scotia mansion circa 1863; How Small, How Far Away happens in the north end in 2010—but At This Hour: The Deposition of Harbour Pilot Francis Mackey takes a different approach: It’s a piece of verbatim theatre that will be performed in the room […]
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Slut provides a jumping off point for larger discussions
Slut August 24-26 Sir James Dunn Theatre, 6101 University Ave free What is a “slut?” That’s a question that’s been on the minds of over a dozen Halifax women who are bringing Katie Capiello’s play, Slut to the stage, presented by LunaSea Theatre Company. It follows 16-year-old Joey del Marco’s deposition in her sexual assault […]
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Emerging Lens Cultural Film Festival re-emerges
7th Annual Emerging Lens Cultural Film Festival April 19-22 various locations free The Emerging Lens Cultural Film Festival has come a long way since its first year, co-founders Tara Taylor and Shelley Fashan remember. “We had one day and one sponsor in our first year,” Taylor says with a chuckle. The festival focuses on diverse, […]