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The Dreams of Jinkie Drover
As far back as she can remember, twenty-eight-year-old Jinkie Drover has been living in Portugal with her Aunt Frances, a hard drinking, heavy smoking and profane sixty-year-old writer. Living in modest comfort in this land of gentle winds and warm waters, Jinkie's life would seem to be idyllic. But for years she has been suffering dark and sensual dreams of another time - a forgotten place. Across the Atlantic, there is the barren island of Newfoundland, where a thousand mist enshrouded coves are visited by blue grey islands of ice floating on leaden waters. And within the cradle of one small cove lie the memories of a tormented child, Jinkie Drover. Returning to this island, Jinkie and Frances confront the passions of their past and resolve to secure their future. Sensually textured with the shiftings of seasons and situations, searching between the layers of reality and recollection, mysterious and malefic are The Dreams of Jinkie Drover.
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George and Rue
Macabre and gothic, "George and Rue" is the story of two brothers who commit a horribly bungled robbery in Fredericton in January 1949, ride around in their dead victim's cab for two days with his body in the trunk, face a racist hanging judge in May 1949, and plunge to their deaths from the gallows in July 1949. The two young black male protagonists are pure products of the Depression and World War Two (George served in the Canadian Merchant Marine). The accidental committal of murder-by-hammer-in-the-back-of-the-skull was precipitated, in George's case, by his desire to get money to pay for the delivery of his newborn baby boy and, in Rue's case, by his desire to simply get his clothes out of the cleaners. Both young men had records for petty thievery (nothing worse), though they were also schooled in bank-robbing techniques by the hard-rock Québécois lover of their mother. Written by George Elliott Clarke and invested with his trade- mark poetic vision, this darkly humorous and strangely eerie tale of lives gone awry promises to resonate with suspense.
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The Jack Tales
Children's fables that came to Newfoundland from the old country, The Jack Tales can be as ridiculously grotesque as ancient Mummering rituals and as absurd and challenging as the somewhat more recent, Samuel Beckett. Having passed through generations in isolated out-ports along Newfoundland's Atlantic coast, these ever-evolving tales center around an innocent named Jack and his fantastic, magical adventures.
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Tomorrow Will Be Sunday
Set in the 1940's and based on the classic Newfoundland novel by Harold Horwood, this feature film will explore the sexual and intellectual awakenings of a precocious adolescent living in an isolated Newfoundland out-port. |
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