The provincial government is putting a total of $23 million into the local film industry, premier Tim Houston announced today. Eight million of the funds will support a soundstage that, according to a press release from the province, “will increase the industry’s capacity, create more jobs and allow productions to continue year-round.” The remaining $15 […]
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maggie jayne’s fashion on film
The Clever Hand screening Friday, March 15, 8pm Atlantic Filmmakers’ Co-Operative 5663 Cornwallis Street It all started a little over a year ago, when Maggie MacCormick—the designer behind the colourful, clean-lined fashion label maggie jayne—and a bunch of her pals gathered on the beach for a music video shoot. “It was just so fun to […]
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Welcome to Diggstown
Diggstown Wednesdays at 9pm on CBC TV Streaming on CBC Gem M arcie Diggs is grieving. Her favourite aunt—the one who taught her how to surf, showed her how to find salvation in the sea—has taken her own life and Marcie is flailing emotionally and—in certain eyes—professionally, ditching lucrative corporate law for legal aid in […]
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25 for 25: episode 2015
Filmmaker, artist and all-around multihyphenate Cory Bowles is with us reflecting back on when the province killed Nova Scotia’s film tax credit. Then we phone up Megan Leslie to find out why Halifax’s former Member of Parliament left behind politics and the city after 2015’s federal election. All this, plus the city is rendered immobile […]
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AIFF 2018: Thom Fitzgerald’s very busy week doesn’t end when Splinters opens the festival
Splinters Thursday, September 13, 7pm Rebecca Cohn Auditorium, 6101 University Avenue $50 finfestival.ca Thom Fitzgerald is having a busy week. Earlier he was in Toronto for the premiere of his new feature, Splinters, at TIFF. On Thursday night the film opens FIN: The Atlantic International Film Festival. And Friday is the first day of shooting […]
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AIFF 2018: Love, Scott brings a hate crime to light
Love, Scott Monday, September 17, 6:30pm Cineplex Park Lane, 5657 Spring Garden Road $22.50 finfestival.ca Scott Jones’ life changed on the night of October 13, 2013, almost five years ago. The openly gay musician was attacked on a New Glasgow street by Shane Matheson, a teenager with a knife. The incident put Jones in hospital […]
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Fringe 2018: Door Play
Thu Sep 6-Fri Sep 7, 8pm The Pit, University of King’s College 6350 Coburg Road, pwyc “I heard this podcast and they have an episode all about how doors are really forgettable—a good door should be entirely forgettable,” says Zach Greenham. “Anytime there’s a door and you have to figure out how it works—that’s a bad […]
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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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Film review: Black Cop
Black Cop Opens Friday, June 1 Cineplex Park Lane 5657 Spring Garden Road Black Cop was shot in Halifax, but you’d only know that if you already lived here. Cory Bowles’ directorial debut, expanded from his 2015 short, looks and feels as if it could be anywhere in North America, and that’s just what he […]
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Your 2018 Screen Nova Scotia Award winners
The annual Screen Nova Scotia Awards were handed out at the Casino last night, with Cory Bowles‘ Black Cop, opening in Halifax June 1, winning Best Feature and the recently renewed Pure nabbing Best Television Series. The late actor John Dunsworth‘s family was on hand to help announce the John Dunsworth Screen Actor’s Fund, in support […]
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The Child Remains: Canadian Horror Story
The Child Remains Opens Friday, April 27 Cineplex Park Lane, 5657 Spring Garden Road The Ideal Maternity Home in East Chester operated from the 1920s through the 1940s, offering babies for sale and housing the unwed women who bore them. If the babies weren’t white and healthy—”unsaleable”—they were starved or buried alive in the surrounding […]
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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 […]