Jack Meets The Cat
One night, in a rickety old Newfoundland fishing port, villagers young and old alike, sit mesmerized as old Uncle Val spins a wild-eyed yarn about a simple lad named Jack who sets out to seek his fortune and after many hilarious encounters returns with a bag of gold and a beautiful princess who was once a cat. A film for the whole family – including the cat.
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Egg
A romantic comedy that tells the tale of a young American veterinarian who accidentally lands on a remote island off the Canadian coast where he is mistaken by the islanders as their long awaited family doctor. An original script by Jane Alexander. (Co-production with Pumpkinhouse Productions of New York.)
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Comrades
The compelling story of a love triangle between three youths that begins in western Canada’s dust-bowl of the 1930's and reaches its deadly climax on the battlefields of Spain’s infamously bloody Civil War. (international co-production)
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The Dreams Of Jinkie Drover
When confronted in a bar by an intense young woman from Canada, twenty-five-year-old Jinkie Drover’s apparently ordinary life is suddenly turned upside down. An original screenplay about women and the women they love, this romantic story is revealed over distance and memory, from the beautiful old-world city of Lisbon, Portugal to a distant fog-bound Newfoundland village called ‘Comfort Cove’.
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Shelter
A bold experimental drama about Canadian youth living on the street - to be written and performed by homeless youth.
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Love Hurts
Bumping into each other again after five years, Peggy and David, are a couple of out-of-control twenty-somethings whose world has been confounded by economic depression, alcohol, drugs and a distant war. With nothing to lose, they decide to run away from everything, especially their past. But after a series of strange but apparently meaningless encounters they are blindsided when they accidentally stumble upon, of all things, their future. A tragi-comedic love story set in post-industrial Cape Breton, Canada.
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Bear
Based on the controversial Governor General Award winning novel by Marion Engel, this gothic telling of a middle-aged woman’s journey into the Canadian wilderness and her profound, life changing encounter with a bear, challenges one of our society’s last taboos.
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What You Need
Against his better judgement, homebody handi-man Terrence “Buddy” Whelper is swept into the vortex that is Dorene LaTisha Perney, who may or may not be Rene, who may or may not be a stripper, and who may or may not be a murderess, as he helps her to achieve her dream of becoming a back up singer to a famous country star. A romantic comedy based on the Giller nominated novel by of the same name by Eliza Clark (in partnership with StrømHaus Productions). |
