2005 - Newfoundland and Labrador Film Development Corporation

Table of Contents
Message from the Chair
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Corporate Profile
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In Development
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Recent Production
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Sponsored Projects
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Feature Films
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TV Series
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Documentaries
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Animation/Drama
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Financial Statements
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Board of Directors
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Staff Members
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Film Pro Report
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Newfoundland and Labrador
Film Development Corporation
Message from the Chair
Dear Industry Professionals:
Despite a challenging year for the Canadian film and television industry in 2004-05, the
Newfoundland and Labrador Film Development Corporation sustained its momentum with
the increased support of the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador. Our production
year included the documentaries, “Stealing Mary,” “Hard Rock and Water,” and “Traces”
and the television pilot “Hatching, Matching and Dispatching”. As well, the Atlantic Studios
Cooperative, the largest sound stage in Atlantic Canada, was successfully utilized to
produce the television series, “Life with Derek”.
Productions such as these and others, as well as the NLFDC’s Equity and Tax Credit Programs,
our unique provincial locations and our state of the art sound stage facility in Corner Brook
all bode well for the future of our industry. Noteworthy too, is next fiscal year’s line up which
promises to be a record year with two television series as well as another pilot, a feature film
and a movie of the week.
Internationally, the NLFDC continued its partnership in selected markets with other Canadian
provincial funding agencies, Telefilm Canada, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Industry
Canada for the purpose of increasing visibility, fostering co-productions and facilitating export
sales. As a result, Newfoundland and Labrador’s film and television producers continue to
forge partnerships worldwide.
There is every reason to have confidence in the viable and prosperous future of the
Newfoundland and Labrador film industry. We have locations, we have talent, we now
have the production equipment, a sound stage, and post-production capacity. We have
substantially developed local skilled labour and mature production companies now exist.
The future looks extremely bright.
As Chair, I am happy to present our annual report, Film Review 2005. The NLFDC is
accountable for the actual results reported; it is quite clear that the Corporation is carefully
following the goals and objectives of its Strategic Plan.
Once again, many thanks to our Board of Directors and staff of the NLFDC for their dedication
and hard work over the past year.
Norm Whalen
Chair, Board of Directors (NLFDC)
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The mandate of the Newfoundland and Labrador Film Development Corporation (NLFDC) is to foster
and promote the development and growth of the film and video industry in Newfoundland and Labrador
and to increase the national and international visibility of Newfoundland and Labrador as a location.
This mandate is achieved by pursuing several key objectives. They are:
• To support, assist and develop the growth of the private sector film
and video industry using sound business principles in the areas of
funding marketing, promotion and infrastructure development
• To promote the province within the worldwide film and video industry
as a location for film, video, television and commercial productions
• To serve as a focal point of liaison between industry and all levels
and sectors of government in support of industry development
• To ensure that appropriate pools of investment and equity capital
are available to assist in the growth of the indigenous industry
The NLFDC administers two main programs: the Equity Investment Program (EIP) and the Newfoundland
and Labrador Film and Video Industry Tax Credit. The programs are designed to assist and promote the
development of the indigenous film and video industry in Newfoundland and Labrador. The eligibility criteria
are designed to ensure maximum employment and growth in the Newfoundland and Labrador film and
video industry.
Equity Investment Program
To support Newfoundland and Labrador based production, the NLFDC provides production assistance
in the form of equity investment to eligible producers for the financing of productions. Equity investment
is a financial contribution by the NLFDC that shall be repaid from earned income revenue resulting from the
production. The NLFDC will normally provide a maximum contribution of 20% of the total production budget.
Film and Video Industry Tax Credit
The NLFDC also administers a fully refundable corporate income tax credit for the Newfoundland and Labrador
Department of Finance. The program encourages the development, training and hiring of Newfoundland film
personnel in all disciplines. The credit is based on a calculation of eligible labour limited to the lesser of 25%
of the total eligible budget or 40% of the total eligible labour expenditures.
History
The Provincial Government established the Newfoundland and Labrador Film Development Corporation in
1997. A seven-member Board of Directors appointed for a three-year term by the Provincial Government
directs the affairs of the Corporation. Five are voting members, while the remaining two are non-voting
ex-officio members.
In the past the Corporation’s operating and marketing activities were funded by two Federal/Provincial
agreements. The Economic Renewal Agreement (ERA) covered marketing expenditures, while the
Comprehensive Economic Development Agreement (CEDA) covered operating expenditures. The Atlantic
Canada Opportunities Agency and the Department of Development and Rural Renewal administered both
Agreements. At present, funding for the Corporation is handled solely by CEDA.
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Jean Claude Roy
Springwater Productions
Surfing in Newfoundland
Morag Productions
Jean Claude Roy is your classic twenty-five year overnight
success. He has painted over 5,000 paintings so far and as
his reputation becomes larger, demand for his paintings also
grows. He is an artist who cares for nothing but painting. He
paints every day and in the tradition of the Group of Seven often
completes a painting a day. He always paints outdoors, come rain
or sun, snow or wind. It is the outdoors trait and an unorthodox
approach that makes his work real, vibrant, appealing and unique.
When a swarthy Italian, Surfer Dude arrives in an isolated coastal
town in rural Newfoundland and begins to ride the big waves that
break there, the locals are perplexed.
Already some of his paintings have been published in a book called
Soliel du Nord & Brouillard d’ Anse (Somogy editions d’art-Paris). This
book highlights his work and gives a person who is unfamiliar with
his paintings an idea of how dramatically appealing his artwork is.
Surfing in Newfoundland?
The Dude covertly sabotages his own antique pick up truck,
“stranding” himself for six weeks. In that time, he changes himself
and the community forever. The dude is a smuggler, waiting for a
hundred kilo “drop off” of….something.
But there’s a problem. The drop off is cancelled. Instead, there will
be a transfer of the goods at sea. The dude must befriend a local
fisherman, and get that person in on the deal. The charismatic
dude pulls out all the stops to achieve his epic goals in this sexy,
action packed comedy full of human twists and turns.
The year 2004 commemorated 400 years of the French presence
in Newfoundland and Labrador. One major celebration was the
opening of a new arts/interpretation center in Conche, formerly
a part of the French Shore in Newfoundland. Jean Claude Roy
was in invited to be the first artist in residence and as such will
be holding an art exhibition, teaching classes for children and
adults, and demonstrating how he approaches landscape painting.
Who is The Dude? What is he really doing here? And in the end,
who’s using who?
Crackie
Kickham East Productions
In negotiations for Canada-Ireland
CRACKIE is a story about a relationship between a young woman
and a dog, the cyclical nature of abuse, and unconventional
familial love.
MITSY is a fourth generation illegitimate child living in a small
community in Newfoundland on the Port au Port Peninsula.
Her mother GWENDOLINE never told anyone who Mitsy’s father
was and left her to be raised by BRIDE, her grandmother, when
Mitsy was two. Bride’s horrible reputation as a prostitute for
servicemen on the American base and her abrupt and cold nature
cast ugly shadows on Mitsy’s childhood. Isolated from society,
she grew up to be extraordinarily introverted and insecure.
MITSY craves a better family than she’s got, which only consists of
her hateful, scavenging grandmother. She dreams of being with her
real mom, sleeps with an older guy, even gets a dog. So fixated on
winning over those who reject her, she fails to appreciate the one
who never has. You don’t always fit in the place you belong.
Crackie won the Writers Guild of Canada 2004 Jim Burt
Screenwriting Prize. Created to continue the work of the late
Jim Burt in recognizing and nurturing new screenwriting talent
with a strong sense of identity, the Prize is presented annually
at the Canadian Screenwriting Awards.
Love and Savagery
Morag Productions, co-production
with Parkex Pictures (Montreal).
co-production with Subotica (Ireland).
Love and Savagery is a love story. In 1942 Michael McCarthy
and his friend Wilfred, having spent a short time in Scotland
with the Forestry Unit for the war effort, arrive in Ireland for a
short visit before returning home to Newfoundland.
It is here he meets Cathleen, a beautiful young woman who
breaths the landscape in her own way and is an ear for Michael’s
own emotional landscape, which he visits through the language
of poetry and ancient limestone.
However, for Cathleen’s protective uncle, who has raised her after
the death of her family at a young age, a meddling foreigner such
as Michael, no matter what his background and lineage, was not
about to disrupt what he believes was Divinely planned.
Love and Savagery is a story of two people caught in the right
and wrong place in the right and wrong time, it is a story of
emotional and physical landscape, it is the story of language,
a language that both Michael and Cathleen taste on the edge
of their tongues when the dampness of loneliness attaches itself
to mouths and breasts…a language that only God and time are
truly comfortable with.
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Disaster at Sea
Morag Productions
The USS Franklin, a secret state of the art nuclear submarine
is on its maiden voyage off the icy coast of Newfoundland.
A crew member, bribed by a giant computing firm to spoilt
the smooth running of their competitors systems onboard,
unwittingly unleashes a computer virus into the submarine’s
central computer, closing down its functionality.
Suspecting a Navy led systems test, the captain and crew
work calmly and diligently to rectify the problem.
But, in a panic since the loss of contact, the US Navy is
desperately searching for their multi billion-dollar investment.
The sub is fitted with a “cyanide over-ride” system that is
designed to completely self-destruct if the submarine is
inactive for 48 hours.
As the blissfully unaware city prepares for the St. John’s Day
celebrations, the US Navy and their unlikely ally are in an
increasingly desperate race against time to relocate the sub
before it, and a large part of the Eastern Newfoundland Coast,
are obliterated.
The Sergeant’s Son
Rink Rat Productions
The Sergeant’s Son is about Sean O’Reilly, a young man of 26,
who is raised by his uncle William. After 19 years of thinking he
had been orphaned at a young age, Sean finds out his mother is
still alive. He embarks on a journey to discover what happened
to his life all those years ago, but discovers things about his
Uncle William that is not capable of dealing with. Sean will have
to break down the walls constructed in him to pursue his past,
but in searching for the one parent he thought he lost, he is in
danger of losing his uncle, the only parent he has ever known.
Legends and Lore
of the North Atlantic
Pope Production
Newfoundland and Maritime history is a deep, rich vein of folklore
and eerie epic tales-both the supernatural and unbelievably true,
all waiting to be tapped. The culture of storytelling here, the
ongoing tradition of legends as entertainment, means these
stories, and the characters to tell them, are plentiful and
accessible for television production.
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As a series, Legends and Lore of the North Atlantic will cast a
wide net to find the most fascinating stories from our limitless
pool. Legends and Lore will concentrate on telling good yarns that
are bizarre, epic, perplexing, riddling, haunting, unbelievable-and
always fascinating.
Stories will range from paranormal tales-such as the many
haunted lighthouses that dot the Atlantic coast-to the unsolved
and tragic, like the mysterious and sudden disappearance of
The Southern Cross.
Atlantic Sound
Pope Productions
Atlantic Sound is an imaginative, quirky, fish-out-of-water drama.
A straight-laced urbanite – with a legendary father he doesn’t
want to live up to – must navigate the confusing antics of the
tight-knit oddballs of his childhood home.
A cute, bumbling, and endearingly earnest accountant, Matthew
Cummins, 34, is making his way in the buttoned-down corporate
world of Dublin. Suddenly, he is gob smacked out of his selfimposed Old World exile by his estranged father’s last will
and testament.
The estate is surprisingly large – Matthew will be a wealthy man
– but there’s a catch. And from the grave Jack Cummins disrupts
his son’s life one last time.
Tempting Providence
Pope Productions
In 1921 Myra Grimsley signed a two-year contract, and boarded
a steam ship from London, England to St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Her charge: to serve as the sole health care provider for three
hundred miles of sparsely settled and greatly ailing coast of
Newfoundland’s Great Northern Peninsula. By the time her
contract can out two years later, Myra was married to local
Angus Bennett, and had given birth to their first child, Grace.
Part biography, part cultural history, part love story, Tempting
Providence is a drama about a young British nurse who only
signed on for 2 years, and the local man for whom she stayed
for 70.
Rabbittown
Kickham East Productions
Hey Day
Hey Day Productions
Odelette Bishop-Payne gets dumped by her dickhead husband,
and like a tornado, she returns to her old neighbourhood and back
into the lives of Harriet, her hairdresser mother and Louanne, her
best friend, a psychic stylist who has been struggling to stay
sober and Odelette- free.
The final days of WWII are turbulent ones for 16-year-old Terry
Follett – a sharp young man who busses tables at the airport
hotel in Gander, Newfoundland. Boasted the world’s longest
runway and poised on the Eastern tip of the continent, Gander
provided an unlikely outpost for starts like Gene Tierney, Bob Hope
and others who were often fogged while en-route to their USO
tours overseas.
Watch closely as these gals bouffant, primp, curl and tangle their
way through a mesmerized town and enrapture a slew of misfits
along the way.
Happiness is being one step ahead of your best friend.
Down to the Dirt
Newfound Films Inc.
Meet Keith and Natasha – two headstrong and charismatic
individuals sifting through the rubble of their slow dying
relationship. Set concurrently in St. John’s and Halifax, obsession
is the key in this roller-coaster account of romance and deceit.
Jam packed with tales of shoplifting, abortion, self-mutilation,
inflatable lovers, dead cats, career delusions and budding
alcoholism, Down to the Dirt is a driven black comedy of
new Newfoundland, containing no salt fish and no ugly sticks.
Down to the Dirt is an adaptation of the highly acclaimed
first novel by Joel Hynes, soon to be re-released by Harper
Collins Canada.
Accordion Voices
Lazybank Productions
From the Arctic to the Andes, from the Pyrenees to the Himalayas
and beyond, the ACCORDION has traveled the world and found
a home in the popular music of people everywhere.
When his mother becomes gravely ill and the family house is
quarantined, it is Terry’s brilliant imagination that carries him
through on a bouncy, poignant journey of love and longing.
Terry fights his fear of loss by holding onto his infatuation with
the vivacious Mary Dwyer (some ten years his senior) and his
encounters with the show business legends at the hotel. As Terry
and his father wait the verdict of his mother’s health, he summons
up happy memories and hopes from the world of the hotel that
self-created romance with Mary blossoms as Bob Hope, big
bands, bombers and babes alight his mind. With a war outside
and death upstairs, youth straddles adulthood while conjured
love and laughter are the antidote to ward off fear.
Ferry Command
Sky Bridge Productions Ltd
This is a terrific story about people driven by passion and purpose,
risking everything for a war on the other side of the ocean, caught
up in a great adventure that changed the course of history. It is a
great Canadian story that is almost unknown in this country.
From the tenacity and daring of a handful of civilians, the Ferry
Command became a vital force that helped turn the tide of the
war. This is their story.
ACCORDION VOICES retraces the extraordinary migrations of
this fabled instrument and celebrates the magic of its music.
Part road movie, part concert film, ACCORDION VOICES travels
from Newfoundland to Texas, from Pangnirtung to Poland, bringing
together performances of world class musicians, representing a
remarkable richness of musical styles, from Conjunto to Klezmer,
from Classical to Jazz, from traditional folk music to Rock and Roll.
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Lots
By Pope Productions, Inc.
The last unrenovated Victorian pile on Cromwell Street has just
been bought and to the great relief of the yuppie neighbors, by
an architect, one Kitty Devereaux. But Patrick Joyce at number
16 has seen Ms. Devereaux in his capacity as a lawyer for the
City of St. John’s (she once proposed farming an empty lot
downtown) and suspects everyone may be in for a surprise.
Indeed, when it becomes known that the counter-intuitive
carrot-topped Kitty plans to redo her house, not in period
perfect clapboard but in modernist sheets of copper, a battle
ensues between the “self appointed taste police” and the new
kid on the block. The conflict can only end up at City Hall. Patrick
will have to decide whether he is going to fight for his friends,
neighbors and fiancée Lynn (she lives right next door) or the
interloper with whom he has fallen in love.
Man Overboard
By Pope Productions, Inc.
Aaron Fraser is a man running from trouble and heartbreak,
leaving Toronto behind to hole up in an abandoned church in
the tiny Newfoundland outport of Crants Cove, wanting nothing
more than to be left alone. When Ruth Farrell, a single mother
of a “troubled” child, convinces Aaron to hire her unemployed
ne’er-do-well brother, Lloyd, to help renovate the church, everyone
gets more than they bargained for. Against his better judgement,
Aaron falls for Ruth. But as the two become romantically involved,
Aaron’s secretiveness about his past leads Lloyd to harbour growing
suspicions. There are the scars Aaron refuses to talk about. And
he seems to know more about the cove and its people than he
should, including the details of a bizarre community secret that has
been kept under wraps for the last twenty years. Slowly it becomes
clear to everyone in Crants Cove that this stranger is not exactly
who he appears to be. The fear and anger that the truth about
Aaron provokes within the community threatens the unlikely
love between he and Ruth, and possibly his life.
Laughtershock
By Fire Crown Films
Laughtershock is based on the tried and true characters,
circus skills, costumes, props and themes developed
over the twenty-year career of Newfoundland’s foremost
Children’s entertainer, Beni Malone.
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The fabulous jumbled workshop of Benito Zuma, an inventive
circus clown, is the setting for this whimsical, action-packed
children’s show. Benito’s greatest inspiration comes from his
ten year old niece, Zoe, who helps him build fantastical circus
props. They recycle everyday objects into incredible home
made inventions: old bikes become unicycles, tin cans become
dance shoes, water cooler bottles become giant juggling jugs
and everything under the sun could become part of the fleets
of robots that populate Benito’s usual universe. Benito also
creates an endless variety of clown characters and shares
his circus skills of stilt walking, unicycling, juggling and, of
course, lots of clowning around with Zoe and her friends.
The Breaks
By Rink Rat Productions, Inc.
This engaging half-hour dramatic comedy series is made up of
on-going story lines, family dynamics and the extreme behavior
of people in a heightened state of dissolution. Each episode of
“The Breaks” follows the main characters, Margo, Gwen, Lydia
and Joy on a journey to triumph over exhausting people and or
circumstances in their lives. In order to solve their problems
the women seek answers; spiritual, psychological, supernatural
or otherwise.
Episodes are sometimes driven by outrageous acts between
separating spouses or advice people receive in times of crisis.
We watch as the women attempt to work with the wisdom
they receive with a combination of poignant and hilarious results.
The Elsie Holloway Story
By Fire Crown Films
The Elsie Holloway Story will explore the life and photographic work
of a major photographer. The film will capture an exciting era when
photography was a new phenomenon around the globe. The Elsie
Holloway Story will share a history of development of photography
from the early era of ‘painting in photos’ (1840’s) to the one that
would give rise to the moving pictures that created films.
The archives in St. John’s, NL hold rare and wonderful 19th century
photographs. The world event of Amelia Earhart’s trans-Atlantic
flight from Harbour Grace was documented by Elsie. Yet her work
has never been recognized, let alone celebrated. This film will
explore Holloway’s work at home in St. John’s Newfoundland
and in London, England.
Romancing the Labrador
By Pope Productions, Inc.
St. John’s West (Phase II)
By Newfound Films, Inc.
To modern day adventurers, Labrador is a trackless, pristine,
primeval wilderness; yet, the treks they painstakingly plan out
have been commonplace journeys of trade and travel for the native
people of Labrador since time immemorial. Native men, women
and children routinely voyaged the same routes that adventurers
traveled during their so-called “heroic” exploits of exploration.
Set in the world of Canadian politics, this one-hour drama
follows the rocky road of a federal election campaign in the
riding of St. John’s West. The story focuses on how the lives
of three characters are forever changed by the dying campaign
they find themselves a part of. Love, politics, facing one’s
demons and forgiveness are all key ingredients of this story.
The journey takes us across both Labrador and the mindset of
the adventurer. No judgements are offered about such visions
of the north. The complex ways that people of different cultural
backgrounds imagine a place are revealed so that, in the end,
we are reminded that below the surface of representations of
adventure narratives and glossy tourism literature lie other
realities worthy of attention.
As the campaign dies a slow death, the characters will discover
in their own way that love and life are often born out of loss
and defeat.
Duckworth
By Augusta Productions, Inc.
Duckworth is a gritty half-hour comedy series about a modern
day but old and beleaguered, overworked, cash-strapped
family storefront law firm in the heart of the legal community
of downtown St. John’s.
Thomas O’Mara, the patriarch of O’Mara, Linegar, O’Mara, has
just died leaving the firm to some of the most likely and unlikely
characters, including his lovely, dedicated and overworked 34 year
old daughter Clare, one of the best corporate lawyers in town.
Clare tries desperately to keep the firm on track. Another part
of the firm goes to his law partner, the slick, ambulance chasing,
“play boy wanna be” Johnny Linegar, criminal defense lawyer who
surprises his opponents with his hidden intelligence and can rely
on his “friends” to help turn a case around. Johnny is a volume
man, he gets the cases in.
Duckworth will take us from the hi-jinx of the courtroom, to the
finagling in the registry, to the local pub. It will play out on the
streets of St. John’s, the circuit court in the outports with the
requisite cups of tea in the parlour, to wakes and funerals where
Johnny “pays respect” always in search of more business. The
cases and clients will be based on some of the “real” cases from
the dockets of the old courthouse. They will be bizarre, hilarious,
touching, outrageous but always authentic and with a bit of heart.
Because after all who’s legal matter isn’t of the utmost importance
to them? All of this is combined with the ongoing drama of the
lives of the crowd up at O’Mara, Linegar, O’Mara.
Reaching Finisterre (Phase II)
By Pangur Ban Productions, Inc.
Reaching Finisterre is the story of Ellie Madden. Drawn with
lusty strokes on a broad canvass, it travels form the cobblestones
of St. John’s in the nineteen-twenties to occupied Paris of
World War II, from suburban middle-class Halifax of the
nineteen-sixties to the rekindled fires of Northern Ireland, from
spiritual enlightenment of the Santiago de Compostela Camino
in the eighties to the dawn of a new millennium. One woman’s
journey through the twentieth century, Reaching Finisterre is
a war story, a love story, the story of a life.
Secrets Whispered
Up Sky Down Films
This film set in St. John’s, Newfoundland in the summer of 1978
captures a time of innocence and discovery in the lives of two main
characters, Gordie McAllister and Jimmy Birmingham. Although they
are very close friends and live in the same neighborhood, the two
young boys are of very different backgrounds. They are bonded by
the untold secrets creeping into their lives from the adult world,
which they are trying to understand while they also try to be boys
having fun at the same time.
Gordie and Jimmy are faced with so many things that summer
that it is hard to remember how simple things were before it.
A certain innocence is lost but a new understanding is gained.
Gordie sees how big problems can be resolved, making the little
things not so important and Jimmy sees that there is something
good in everything bad, even if it takes a long while and a lot of
searching to find.
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Nanobodz
Nanobody Productions Inc.
On a dusty shelf of a workroom/laboratory, a plasma-ball lamp
sits quietly buzzing away, long forgotten and ignored. Somewhere
deep inside the vacuumed inner space of electrified inert gas,
at a quantum level, 5 creatures, out of necessity, have become
frontiers-folk on a bizarre new terrain. Strangers until now, our
“first family” of Nanobodz bond through their struggles to build
themselves a secure future in this weird wilderness. At the
start, the needs are basic; food, shelter and harmony but with
each episode, another character or group of characters are
zapped down to populate their growing community. What
seems manageable at first, before long becomes a complicated
infrastructure of conflict and compromise. With so many opinions
and needs, it’s hard to satisfy all without disappointing some.
Much love will be needed from our first 5 to accommodate
all the fantastical guests that continue to arrive yet never leave.
Nanobodz is a 3d animated weekly serial that solicits ideas from
its 8-13 year old (target) audience that are incorporated into the
personality and development of this fledging sub-atomic society.
Young Triffie’s Been Made Away With
(Phase ll) by Rink Rat Productions
It’s 1947 and in a tiny Newfoundland community a young girl is
found murdered. While the local pastor preaches fire and brimstone,
sheep are mysteriously mutilated. The Ranger is summoned to
investigate and the whole community is turned inside out.
Human Amusements
by Imagex (Nfld) Inc.
Based on the novel by Wayne Johnston, this feature film is
a bittersweet comedy of a television family’s gradual rise to
celebrity in Toronto during the sixties and seventies.
Tickle Bight
by Pope Productions Inc.
Friday morning, waking up in the quiet Atlantic outport of Tickle
Bight, we quickly realize that this town is unlike most. Strange exotic
characters and a well-organized secrecy flavor an atmosphere of
“What’s up Doc?” Community CEO of charisma, Nina Shea, leaves
for the weekend heading into the capital city to meet up with Trina,
her antithetical kid sister. Trina and her husband’s meal ticket, the
religious program God on Our Side, has just been canceled and
Trina has no joy joy joy down in her heart. After a night of impotent
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socializing at the monthly government bash, the hangover news
is that Tickle Bight’s business is now everybody’s. Saturday
morning’s paper spells it out in black and white; government
sponsored pornography is being made in a sleepy outport. The fish
plant is now a porn plant. An uproar ensues. The whole country is
descending on Tickle Bight and Nina is caught in the middle of it all.
Prophet Sharing (Phase ll)
by Curzon Village Productions Inc.
This one-hour documentary will explore, through the eyes of
the host (a young dynamic, actor/social activist, recently turned
television producer/host), the life of Sir William Ford Coaker.
It will attempt to discover if Coaker is a true Newfoundland hero
in need of resurrection (or an anti-heroic/self-serving villain in need
of crucifixion). At the same time, the host will be reflecting upon
and questioning his own ideals, values and identity.
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
(Phase II) by Jim Byrd Productions Inc.
Set against the rampant beauty and the desolate landscape of
Newfoundland, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams links the history of
Newfoundland with the journey of the protagonist Joe Smallwood,
the ambitious young man who would become the province’s first
Premier, and Sheleigh Fielding, a reporter and satirist whose secrets
reveal her as powerfully engaging. In their hometown of St. John’s,
in New York where Fielding holes up with a typewriter, cigarettes
and a bottle of Scotch, Smallwood and Fielding torment and intrigue
one another. The earnest Smallwood and the tart-tongued Fielding
harbour a bittersweet love, a squelched passion in company with
the shame and fury of the mystery of an anonymous letter of their
school days. The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is funny and
heartbreakingly sad, teemed with vivid spectacularly flawed
sympathetic characters and breathtakingly beautiful virtuoso
pieces of the foreboding character of Newfoundland.
Atlantic Blue
by Dark Flowers Productions, Inc.
This movie of the week, is the true story of some of the men
and women involved in, and directly affected by, the sinking
of the world’s largest oil drilling rig off the coast of Newfoundland,
on February 15, 1982. The location of the sinking, the fact that the
rig was the largest of its kind, a new design, and was described
as “unsinkable” all combine to give the story a mythical element
much like the story of the Titanic.
Above and Beyond (Phase IIl)
by Pope Productions Inc.
The Boughwolfen (Phase II)
by Kickham East Productions, Inc.
Above and Beyond is a family television series based on the true
story of Gander, an isolated air base in central Newfoundland that
became a critical link to Europe during WWII. The mini-series will
take us through the inaugural year of the Gander Base, starting with
the first formation flight of seven Hudson Bombers to Europe in the
fall of 1940. It will close in the fall of 1941 with the establishment of
the Americans at the Base. We will see Gander hitting its stride - a
state of the art international Base and home to hundreds of military
and civilian personnel. Three themes - doubt, determination, and
accomplishment - run beneath the storyline, reflecting the political
resistance to the Gander idea, the tenacity of those who thought it
could work, and the extraordinary imagination and perseverance it
took to make it happen.
It is the summer of 1953 in the small mill town of Corner Brook,
Newfoundland. The children of Buckingham Road are dreaming
of the heroes of radio and American baseball. The adults are
worn out with wishing - they wonder where their time went.
This community is no stranger to tragedy, hardened by loss of its
people by tuberculosis or the sea. When tragedy strikes twelve
year old Jerry Murphy close to home it complicates his already
difficult transition in to adulthood. In this summer of baseball
and boughwolfens, of tragedy and betrayal, Jerry finds his path
to adulthood only when he has lost everything else. As he puts
the events of this pivotal summer behind him, he must leave
his childhood as well.
Away
by Jim Byrd Productions Inc.
Away is based on the highly regarded novel of the same name
by the well-known Canadian writer, Jane Urquhart. From her home
on Lake Ontario, Esther O’Malley Robertson gazes out the window
for the last time before her house is swallowed by encroaching
industry and tells the story of her family, from their departure from
Northern Ireland in the 1840’s, through their years in Canada.
Doctor Olds of Twillingate (Phase IIl)
by Morag Productions, Inc.
Morag Productions is developing a made-for-television movie
with CBC based on the biography entitled DOCTOR OLDS OF
TWILLINGATE. Random Passage writer Des Walsh and director
John N. Smith reunite to tell the story of Dr. John Olds, a wealthy
American doctor from Connecticut, who graduates tops in his class
from Johns Hopkins University in the 1930s and decides to spend
the rest of his life in a small fishing settlement in Newfoundland.
Dr. Olds is not your typical good country doctor. Olds is a brilliant
surgeon and passionately committed to his patients, but he is
a flawed man. His heavy drinking and immoral conduct lead him
into a pitched battle between the hospital officials and the people
of Twillingate.
Water of Life (Phase II)
by Jim Byrd Productions
A romantic comedy set on the south coast of Newfoundland.
A community devastated by the loss of the fishery turns to rum
running. The mountie sent to deal with this falls in love with the
daughter of the community leader who is “running the rum”.
The Jack Tales (Phase IIl)
by NL Motion Picture Plant
Having passed through generations in isolated outports along
Newfoundland’s Atlantic coast; the ever-evolving Jack Tales,
children’s fables that came to Newfoundland from the old country,
centre around an innocent named Jack and his fantastic, magical
adventures. In adapting these stories to the screen, the producers
will create a deliberately rough-hewn, multi-layered mix of ancient
and modern, amazing and amusing - in the manner of the film
version of Popeye or of Time Bandits. Set in Newfoundland,
this film will appeal to children and adults alike.
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Tomorrow Will be Sunday
by NL Motion Picture Plant
A Show About Cancer
by Augusta Productions, Inc.
Tomorrow Will be Sunday, based on the novel of the same name
by Harold Horwood, chronicles life in the fictional fishing village of
Caplin Bight in the early 1930’s. Its themes of loss of innocence
and striving for identity are powerfully evoked through the story
of the intellectual growth of the son of a fisherman, Eli Pallisher.
Eli finds himself in increasing conflict with the traditional ways of
outport life and the enlightened view of the local schoolteacher.
The repercussions of this conflict, as well as Eli’s experiencing
of sensual love, and his awakening sense of compassion are
portrayed with rare power and beauty.
A Show About Cancer is a half-hour weekly prime time television
program aimed at a broad-based adult audience. The show will
feature personal stories of people living and dying with cancer and
how they and the people they love cope. It’s for people living with
cancer; people who know or love someone with cancer; people
who are afraid of cancer; people who are curious about cancer;
people who work with cancer; people who are pissed off because
of the rise in cancer. It will be funny, serious, respectful, irreverent,
relevant, topical, probing, mystical, magical, and soothing.
Media Jam (Phase II)
by Pope Productions, Inc.
Mediajamtv.com is a youth run media organization dedicated
to providing Canadian youth with an active media voice and a
community of peers. In an attempt to fill the void of interesting
intelligent media aimed at youth, we began a project that would
bring professional training and experience in the media industries
to talented young Canadians while they create a new media product
for consumption by their peers. Mediajamtv.com is creating an
online jam space in which to create media for television and
web - this is the concept of jamming. Through our jamming web
application, distinct segments with two components, video and
web, both exploring the one idea, are developed. The end product is
magazine style episodes of television and web. Each episode
is comprised of several of the unique segments and will be
posted on Mediajamtv.com and aired on CBC Television.
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The Adventures of Cookie Clow
by Kickham East Productions
Based on the short film script Strangled in A Small Town, this
black comedy will explore the relationships between three main
characters: Cookie Clow, Grace, and Indigo. Cookie moves back
to her hometown, finds work as a hairdresser, bonds with her
newfound family (Grace and Indigo) and goes up against the dirty
little town that shunned her. From the time Cookie was “run out
of town on a rail” at the tender age of fifteen for conceiving a
child out of wedlock, she has been a victim many times. Beaten
out of the house by her husband, Cookie decides to return
home to the town she’d left behind years ago.
Heaven By The Sea
by Plain Sight Productions, Inc.
On the stormy night of February 18th, 1942, three American Naval
warships lose their way and tragically crash into the steep, icy
cliffs of Newfoundland. Over the course of the next 24 hours, the
crews desperately struggle against unbelievable circumstances to
save themselves from a bitter death in the cold Atlantic. Fighting
tempestuous seas, the frigid wind and the hostile landscape that
is the southwest coast of the island, hundreds of men will die.
Homegrown
Director
BILL COULTAS
Producers
BILL COULTAS,
CLE NEWHOOK
Script
BILL COULTAS
Photography
KEVIN HANLON & GERRY
Cast
WILF NICHOLLS, DEBBIE PRESTON,
& TIM MURRAY
Location
EASTERN AND WESTERN
NEWFOUNDLAND
Format
PANASONIC DVC PRO
Running Time
DAVIS
Editor
MIKE WALSH & MIKE CROTTY
Music
SANDY MORRIS & FRANK MAHER
29:50
Production Company
SPRINGWATER PRODUCTIONS INC. .
Release Date
JANUARY 23, 2005
A 13 week television series that will concern itself with the gardening challenges specifically inherent to Newfoundlanders and Labradorians.
Life with Derek (Season I)
Director
RON MURPHY
Exec. Producer
Producers
Script
SCOTT GARVIE & PAUL POPE
DAPHNE BALLON
Photography
Editor
MILAN PODSEDLY
PETER LIGHT, VESNA SVILANOVIC
Composer
Cast
CHRISTINA JENNINGS
GARY KOFTINOFF
ASHLEY LEGGAT (CASEY), MICHAEL
SEATER (DEREK), JOHN RALSTON ( GEORGE),
ARIEL WALLER ( MARTI), KIT WEYMAN ( SAM),
JOY TANNER ( NORA ), DANIEL MAGDER ( EDWIN ),
JORDAN TODOSEY ( LIZZIE), SHADIA SIMMONS
(EMILY ) & ARNOLD PINNOCL ( PAUL )
Location
Format
CORNER BROOK, NEWFOUNDLAND
DIGITAL BETA
“Life with Derek” is about family, a family by marriage, but
a family nonetheless: a group of entirely different kids of
various ages who have next to nothing in common except
a shared living space and two besotted parents who have
made a unilateral decision to join forces.
Running Time 13 HALF HOUR EPISODES
Production Company
SHAFTESBURY FILMS INC & POPE PRODUCTIONS
Release Date
FALL/WINTER 2005
On the surface, “Life with Derek” is about one skirmish
after another between two demented teenagers who both
want control. But really it is about family members testing
each other and learning how far to go, it’s about having a
sense of humour about the territorial struggles every family
endures when sharing isn’t an option but a survival skill.
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Hatching, Matching
& Dispatching (Pilot)
Director
HENRY SAWER-FONER
Exec. Producers
JOHN BRUNTON,
BARBARA BOWLBY, MARY WALSH &
MARY SEXTON
Producer
MARY SEXTON
Supervising Producer
MARK MCINNIS
Script
MARY WALSH, MARK MCKINNEY,
SHAUN MAJUMDER, SHERRY WHITE,
SUSAN KENT, JONATHAN HARRIS,
JOEL HYNES, RICK BOLAND &
ADRIANA MAGGS.
Location
PETTY HARBOUR, & TORBAY,
NEWFOUNDLAND
Format
MARY WALSH, ED MACDONALD
Photography
Cast
MILAN PODSEDLY
Editor
TODD FOSTER
Music
ALLAN DOYLE & RON HYNES
DIGITAL BETACAM
Running Time
1 HOUR
Production Company
2M INNOVATIVE INC. AND
INSIGHT – HATCHING, MATCHING &
DISPATCHING LTD.
Release Date
JANUARY 2005
Hatching, Matching and Dispatching, set in the late 70’s, follows the fortunes of the Furey family of Cat’s Cove, owners and operators of
Furey’s Funeral Parlour, Ambulance Services, Wedding Hall, Garage and Old Folk’s Home… and their daily dealings with the lovesick, the
plain sick, the old, the infirm, the newborn, the automotively challanged, the bereaved, the heartbroken, the dead and the dead drunk.
Their stories are our stories and the themes expressed through the comedy are universal: life, death, love and family.
Girl Culture
Director
VICTORIA KING
Producers
GEETA SONDHI, ANNETTE
CLARKE, VICTORIA KING
Script
VICTORIA KING
Photography
ELLIE YONOVA
Editor
TERRE NASH
Music
TBA
Cast
Location
Format
ST. JOHN’S
X-D CAM - OPTI DISK
Running Time
42 MINUTES
Production Company
GIRL CULTURE PRODUCTIONS INC.
IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH THE NFB .
Release Date
APRIL, 2006
N/A
The moment is electric… girls on the cusp of adolescence leaving
behind the freedom of girlhood for the shaky self-consciousness
of their teens. Over a year, Girl Culture tracks the changing world
of three St. John’s girls against the foil of economic class and
cultural differences.
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Hard Rock and Water
(aka Destinies Apart)
Director
BARBARA DORAN
Producer
Script
LYNNE WILSON
BARBARA DORAN
Photography
MIKE BOLAND
Editor
HOWARD GOLDBERG
Music
LORI CLARKE, SANDY MORRIS
Location
NEWFOUNDLAND, ICELAND,
DENMARK
Format
XD CAM
Running Time
56 MINUTES
Production Company
MORAG PRODUCTIONS INC.
Release Date
JUNE 13, 2005
Cast
LISA MOORE, MARY WALSH,
BRIAN TOBIN, DES WALSH, VIGDIS
FINNBOGADOTTIR, SIGFUS JONSON
In the middle of the Atlantic sit two islands. Born out of rock, seldom nourished by the sun, like two willful brothers they hold fast
against the battering North Atlantic. They are Iceland and Newfoundland.
Hark Rock and Water follows Newfoundland writer Lisa Moore on a quest to discover the essence of nationhood. Sixty years ago
Iceland and Newfoundland were desperately poor places. In a bold move, Iceland separated from Denmark in 1944. Five years later
Newfoundland voluntarily gave up its nationhood and joined Canada. Both countries at a crossroads chose very different routes and
landed in very different places.
Traces of Red:
The Face of the Beothuk
Director
TIM WOLOCHATIUK
Producer
MARIAN FRANCES WHITE,
CHRISTOPHER GAGOSZ
Exec. Producer
JENNICE RIPLEY
Script
JEFF STURGE,
CHRISTOPHER GAGOSZ
Cast
JERRY EVANS, JANE MAGGS
Location
ST. JOHN’S, NEWFOUNDLAND
AND TORONTO WITH SCOTLAND FORENSIC
SCIENTISTS
Format
HD
Running Time
48 MINUTES
Additional Writing
Production Company
MARIAN FRANCES WHITE, BENI MALONE
Editor
JOHN WHITICAR
A FIRE CROWN INC. AND WINDUP
FILMWORKS PRODUCTION IN
CONJUNCTION WITH TRACES OF RED INC.
AND STEALING MARY FILMS ONTARIO INC.
Music
SANDY MORRIS
Release Date
Photography
JOHN CRAWFORD
SEPTEMBER 2005
Traces of Red (working title Stealing Mary) is the story of North
America’s first recorded genocide, the demise of the Beothuk
Indians of Newfoundland. In a CSI format we trace the capture of
Demasduit and focus on the evidence surrounding the crime that
coincided with her capture.
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Traces
Director
Producer
DAVID QUINTON
DAVID QUINTON
Associate Producer
Script
DAVID QUINTON
Photography
Editor
Music
KEN PITTMAN
DAVID QUINTON
CYRIL REID
SANDY MORRIS AND
LES GABIERS D’ARTIMON
Cast
N/A
Location
WEST COAST, NORTHERN
PENINSULA AND BAIE VERTE PENINSULA
Format
DIGITAL BETA
Running Time 22 MINUTES
Production Company
EDGE OF THE EARTH PRODUCTIONS
Release Date
SEPTEMBER 1, 2005
CBC ATLANTIC REGION
For hundreds of years fisherman from Britainy, Normandy and the
Basques country have fished the Western and Northern shores of
Newfoundland. It was a migratory fishery, and settlement was
forbidden in this English colony. Yet some decided to defy the
authorities and begin life anew in this untamed frontier.
On “Traces,” the descendents of French fishermen who jumped
ship long ago tell their stories and celebrate their French heritage.
Boys On The Fringe
Director
DEANNE FOLEY
Exec. Producer
Producer
Script
TIFFANY MARTIN
DEANNE FOLEY/TERRE NASH
Photography
Editor
PAUL POPE
NIGEL MARKHAM
TERRE NASH
Composer
LORI CLARKE
Cast
JEROME SABLE, ELI BATALION
Location
MONTREAL, TORONTO, NEW
YORK, EDINBURGH
Format
DVCAM
Running Time
1-HOUR
Production Company
ALPHA PRODUCTIONS INC.
Release Date
AUGUST 23RD, 2005
Boys On the Fringe follows the young, hot theatre duo, Jerome
Sable and Eli Batalion as they try to make it on the international
theatre scene, having already conquered Canada with their
fringe hit, Job: The Hip Hop Musical. Earning the reputation of
the hard-working men in hip-hop theatre, Boys On the Fringe is a
story of ambition, loyalty, passion, and idiocy behind the theatre
curtain.
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George Street TV
(Season ll)
Director
GREG MALONE
Producer
KENT BROWN
Script
GREG MALONE,
KENT BROWN, DONALD GOOBIE
Photography
NICK SEXTON,
D’JANGO MALONE
Editor
PAT DUNN
Music
STEVE EDWARDS
Cast
GREG MALONE,
KENT BROWN, DONALD GOOBIE
Location
ST. JOHN’S, NL AND
SELECTED CANADIAN CITIES
Format
MINI DV/BETA SP DELIVERY
Running Time
6 ½ HOUR EPISODES
Production Company
GEORGE STREET TV PRODUCTIONS INC.
Release Date
OCTOBER 2005,
THE COMEDY NETWORK
George Street TV is a national party hosted weekly by two easy,
fun loving Newfoundlanders, Donny and Kent. Greg Malone’s
dynamic writing and direction drives the action.
George Street TV is a TV comedy variety show that takes its name
from George Street, St. John’s, Newfoundland, an oasis of action
on Canada’s east coast. George Street is not just a street but a
way of living. From the signature lime green couch the boys reach
out to the street, the country and the world beyond, taking the
Newfoundland party experience with them wherever they go.
Pleasant Street
Director
Producer
Script
GERRY ROGERS
GERRY ROGERS
GERRY ROGERS
Photography
Location
Format
ST. JOHN’S, NEWFOUNDLAND
DVCAM
Running Time
67 MINUTES
PEGGY NORMAN
AND NIGEL MARKHAM
Production Company
Editor
Release Date
TERRE NASH
AUGUSTA PRODUCTIONS INC. .
SEPTEMBER 2004
Pleasant Street is a documentary that follows the lives of Ken and Leida as they struggle to fit in all they want to do,
love all the people they want to love and fight to stay alive just that much longer. Both of them are funny, heroic, afraid,
creative and wanting to open their hearts and lives to the camera. It helps them. They get something out of it too.
Cancer is the antithesis of life and making something creative is like an act of defiance in the face of it.
Pleasant Street is an intensely intimate and dramatic documentary that chronicles the pain, confusion, anger, surprises
and joy in the lives of Leida and Ken set in the context of the daily life of their street in downtown St. John’s.
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Bloomsday Cabaret
Director
Producer
Script
ROSEMARY HOUSE
ROSEMARY HOUSE
ROSEMARY HOUSE
Photography
Editor
Cast
NIGEL MARKHAM
LYLY FORTIN
BRYAN HENNESSEY,
MARY LOU FALLIS,
SHERRY WHITE,
MICHAEL GRODEN
Location
DUBLIN, IRELAND
AND ST. JOHN’S, NL
Format
DIGITAL BETA
Running Time
47.50 (TV VERSION)
66.30 (FEATURE VERSION)
Production Company
ROCK ISLAND PRODUCTIONS INC. .
Release Date
JUNE 2004
Music Director
GRAHAM HENDERSON
June 16, 2004 is the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday, the day that Leopold Bloom, Ulysses’ famous everyman, set out on his odyssey
through the streets of Dublin. Bloomsday Cabaret is an exciting and original new film about music in James Joyce’s life and in his
writing. James Joyce lived in song as others live in air. He had a fine tenor voice and never stopped hoping for a professional singing
career; his wife Nora famously said: “Jim should have stuck to music instead of bothering with writing”. Popular song was his passion
and he put music into the very heart and soul of his characters. There are over 1500 musical references in his work and some episodes
in Ulysses have an almost constant background of music.
In the film a group of Canadian Joyceans and performers visit Dublin on a musical mission. They meet up with a group of Irish
musicians to document and discover songs from Joyce’s life and writing and then return to St. John’s in Newfoundland to stage an
elaborate cabaret of Joycean music. Moulin Rouge meets Bloomsday as Leopold Bloom’s adage is made true: “Music is everywhere”.
Going The Distance
Directors
DEANNE FOLEY,
VICTORIA KING, JANE ADEY,
DAVID OZIER, DAVID FINCH,
LEON ANTHONY
Producer
Script
PAUL POPE
CONCEPT - DEANNE FOLEY
NARRATION - DORIAN ROWE
Editor
DORIAN ROWE,
EDWARD TANASYCHUCK, BEN SMITH
Music
Cast
LORI CLARKE
NARRATOR - LISA PORTER
Location
CANADA, U.S. AND U.K.
Format
DV CAM
Running Time
13 EPISODES
(23:04 EACH)
Photography
ELLIE YANOVA,
LEON ANTHONY, NIGEL MARKHAM,
KEITH BURGESS, MICHAEL SCHAFFEL,
BILL KERRIGAN, DAVID OZIER,
MARK EDWARDS, MICHAEL WEES,
AMIT BHATTACHARYA, DEANNE FOLEY,
IAN K. HINKLE, JOHN HILLIS
Production Company
POPE PRODUCTIONS INC./GOING THE
DISTANCE INC.
Release Date
MARCH 2004
Going the Distance is a thirteen episode documentary that
follows the diverse lives of couples in long distance relationships
as they struggle with the ups and downs, and the less than
regular ins and outs of new style 21st century love.
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Raising Rover
Director
WENDY ROWLAND
Producers
ANNETTE CLARKE
& LINDA FITZPATRICK
Script
EDWARD RICHE
Photography
Editor
ELLIE YONOVA
ANGELA BAKER
Format
DIGITAL BETA
Music JEFF JOHNSTON
Running Time
51:25 MINUTES
Production Company
RUBY LINE PRODUCTIONS INC.
Release Date
JULY 2004
Location
NEWFOUNDLAND,
TORONTO AND NEW YORK
Over half of all dog owners in North America are more attached to their pets than they are to another
person. The status of the modern dog has changed from family pet to family member. Raising Rover
explores this urban phenomenon in a provocative manner through interviews, statistics and revealing
footage of doggy indulgence and human extravagance. This engaging look at the billion-dollar dog
industry and the rise in the social status of our dogs proves... it’s a great time to be canine!
Hospital City
Director
Producer
Script
ROSEMARY HOUSE
MARY SEXTON
ROSEMARY HOUSE
Photography
NIGEL MARKHAM
Editor
LYLY FORTIN
Music
DUANE ANDREWS
Location
Format
ST. JOHN’S, NEWFOUNDLAND
DIGITAL BETA
Running Time
50 MINUTES
Production Company
DARK FLOWERS PRODUCTIONS INC.
Release Date
MARCH 2004
Shot at the Health Sciences Centre in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Hospital City reveals the workings
of a contemporary health care facility. Accompanied by hospital staff, we travel through labs,
pharmacies, supply rooms, operating theatres, and patient rooms -- from the maternity ward to
the morgue.
Here, mundane tasks take on new meaning. Dusting an operating room, sterilizing equipment,
correctly reading the dance of cells across a computer screen, getting a victim of the bends into a
pressurized chamber as quickly as possible -- these jobs are a matter of life and death. Every day.
The thousands of people who work here, caring for 500 or so patients, say that despite the hours,
despite the cutbacks, there is no job they’d rather be doing.
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The King Hunt
Honestly
BY: NEWFOUND FILMS
BY: ART STAR PRODUCTIONS
Car Insurance and the
Divine Tragedy of Thought
Mary Power Documentary
Torn from the Sea
Anatomist in Situ
Ashore
BY: LORI CLARKE
BY: NEWFOUND FILMS
Pretty Big Dig
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BY: DAVE QUINTON
BY: ANNE TROAKE
BY: LOIS BROWN
BY: MICHELLE JACKSON
The Breadmaker
Director
ANITA MCGEE
Producers
ANITA MCGEE,
JENNICE RIPLEY
Script
SHERRY WHITE
Photography
Editor
Design
FRANÇOIS DAGENAIS
TBD
PATRICIA CHRISTIE
Cast
HONEY (SHERRY WHITE)
EDMUND (JONATHAN TORRENS)
HONEY’S DAD (RICK BOLAND)
Location
Format
ST. JOHN’S, NF
MINI DV - 35 MM
Running Time
90 MINUTES
Production Company
KICKHAM EAST PRO. INC.
Release Date
SEPTEMBER, 2002
Honey Reddigan is a celebrity at the Sweet Bea baking factory where she works. She just published her first romance novel.
Carmen the Bee Keeper’s Lover, Carmen Delroy, Honey’s fictional heroine, is independent, sexy, perfect, universally admired
and wanted by every man. Carmen is everything Honey ain’t. In walks Edmund Goobie - a charming, commitment-phobic local
TV personality. They begin a hot affair that quickly approaches relationship status. But happily-ever-after is not in the cards for
this quirky couple. The affair comes to an abrupt end when they purchase a bread maker together and realize that they want
different things. The monumental fight over this household appliance forces Honey to change her life. She quits drinking, goes
on a writing binge to complete her new novel, The Bread Maker, and incorporates Carmen’s self-sufficient traits into her own life.
Making Love in St. Pierre
Director
Producer
JOHN VATCHER
JOHN VATCHER
Art Director DEBBIE VATCHER
Associate Producer
BARRY
Cast
NICOLE UNDERHAY,
ALLEN HAWCO
Location
Format
ST. PIERRE
30MM
CAMERON
Running Time
Script
Production Company
KEN PITTMAN
Dirctor of Photography
JOHN VATCHER
Editor
90 MINUTES
PIERRE FILS/PLAIN SIGHT PICTURES
Release Date
FALL 2003
DAVID WOODROW
The time is winter, 1993. The place is a small fishing village in
Newfoundland. Sebastian, a handsome, hardworking fisherman in his
early thirties, is in a slump of bitterness and despair. The previous spring,
the Government had shut down the cod fishery on the Atlantic Coast,
putting Sebastian and anyone involved in the fishery out of a job. One
day, to rekindle their strained relationship, Sebastian’s girlfriend, Jenny,
suggests a trip to Halifax. However, a twist of events finds the couple
headed, not to Halifax, but to the French island of St. Pierre, off the
Newfoundland coast. No sooner are they on the French island than they
become entangled with another couple, Marie and Michael. What
ensues puts Sebastian and Jenny’s relationship to the test, and prompts
Sebastian to make a decision that alters his life.
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The Shipping News
Director
LASSE HALLSTRÖM
Script
Location
ROBERT NELSON JACOBS, LAURA
JONES, RON BASS, BETH HENLEY
Format
Photography
MIRAMAX FILMS
Editor
Design
OLIVER STAPLETON
ANDREW MONDSHEIN
DAVID GROPMAN
Release Date
DECEMBER, 2001
(LIMITED RELEASE) JANUARY, 2002 (WIDE)
KEVIN SPACEY, JULIANNE MOORE,
CATE BLANCHETT, DAME JUDI DENCH,
SCOTT GLENN, RHYS IFANS, PETE
POSTLETHWAITE, JASON BEHR,
KATHERINE MOENNING & GORDON PINSENT
At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing
wife meets her just desserts. He retreats with his daughter to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland
coast, where a rich cast of local characters all play a part in Quoyle’s struggle to reclaim his life. As three generations
of his family cobble up new lives, Quoyle confronts his private demons - and the unpredictable forces of nature and
society - and begins to see the possibility of love without pain or misery.
The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary American family.
Director
MATTIA KARELL
Producers
CARLO LICONTI,
MARY SEXTON
Script
MATTIA KARELL
Photography
Editor
Design
Music
BOB ELSWIT
BARRY FARRELL
PAM HALL
DAVID FLEURY
Cast
KEIFER SUTHERLAND, KYRA
SEDGEWICK, STOCKARD CHANNING
Location
NEW ENGLAND,
NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
Format
D BETA
Running Time
TBC - 98 MINUTES
Production Company
RED DOOR FILMS INC .
Release Date
MARCH, 2002
An estranged brother and sister reunite when he takes ill.
They re-examine their youth and rediscover the bonds of family.
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35 MM
Production Company
Cast
Behind the Red Door
TRINITY BIGHT AREA, NFLD
The Pasta King
of the Caribbean
Director
SHARON CAVANAGH
Producer
SHARON CAVANAGH,
ANITA MCGEE
Script
SHARON CAVANAGH
Photography
ALBERT HENNEN
Editor
DEREK NORMAN
Music
PAUL STEFFLER
Cast
Location
Format
ST. JOHN’S
SUPER 16MM
Running Time
77 MINUTES
Production Company
PASTA KING
PRODUCTIONS
Release Date
AUGUST, 1998
BERNI STAPLETON, MIKE JONES
Jackie is a married woman whose husband has disappeared. As she deals with questions as to his whereabouts, her brotherin-law, Miles, arrives ostensibly to take up the reins of his brother’s former life. What ensues is a pitched battle of mind games,
machinations and manipulations as the relationship between the two changes, deepens and becomes dangerously potent.
Rare Birds
Director
Producer
Script
STURLA GUNNARSSON
PAUL POPE
ED RICHE
Photography
JAN KIESSER
Editor
JEFF WARREN
Design
PAM HALL
Music
JONATHAN GOLDSMITH
Cast
WILLIAM HURT, ANDY JONES,
MOLLY PARKER
Location
Format
ST. JOHN’S
35 MM
Running Time
95 MINUTES
Production Company
RARE BIRDS PRODUCTION INC.
Release Date
APRIL, 2002
Dave Purcell is ready to call it quits on his marriage and his
restaurant, The Auk. His wife has left for a job at a “right leaning”
Washington, DC think-tank and the restaurant, like the ill-fated
bird for which it was named, has never really taken off. All seems
lost until Dave’s neighbour, Alphonse Murphy, proposes a mad,
yet ingenious scheme to save The Auk. They will announce the
presence of an extremely rare duck, attracting bird watchers
from the world over. Soon, the restaurant is crawling with
well-heeled gastronomes, vain celebrities and bellicose politicos.
Phonse has been up to some other tricks, including the salvage
of some cocaine and the secret manufacture of a “recreational
submarine vehicle”, the revelation of which threatens to expose
the duck hoax.
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Anchor Zone
Director
Producer
Script
KEN PITTMAN
KEN PITTMAN
T. H. HATTE
Photography
MIKE JONES
Editor
HELÉN GIRARD,
MICHAEL MUNN
Design
Music
PAM HALL
SANDY MORRIS
Cast
MARK CRITCH, NICOLE
STOFFMAN, MICHAEL LUKE, PHEILM
MARTIN, ANDREW YOUNGHUSBAND,
HENRY CZERNY
Location
Format
ST. JOHN’S
35 MM
Running Time
85 MINUTES
Production Company
RED OCHRE
PRODUCTIONS
In this trip to the future, a bankrupt, crumbling seaport has been taken over by a single giant corporation. Robin
is an ambitious sixteen-year-old graduate of the corporation’s elite training school who runs away to hunt for the
father she hasn’t seen since she was a baby. Ultimately she confronts scientist Dr. Lawson and his experiments
to increase intelligence in young people.
Extraordinary Visitor
Director
JOHN DOYLE
Producers
Cast
RAOUL BHANJA, ANDY JONES,
MARY WALSH
PAUL POPE,
JENNICE RIPLEY
Location
Script
Format
JOHN DOYLE
Photography
BRIAN HEBB
Editor
LARA MAZUR
Design
PAM HALL
Music
ERIC CADESKY, NICK DYER
ST. JOHN’S
35 MM
Running Time
85 MINUTES
Production Company
FILM EAST INC.
Release Date
FEBRUARY, 1999
It is 1999 on the eve of the New Millennium and the Blessed Virgin
appears to the Pope and tells him that God has decided to destroy
humanity. But, being the mother of mercy, she has interceded and has
decided to send Saint John the Baptist to earth to look for a sign of hope.
He comes to St. John’s because it is the land of simple fisher folk.
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Misery Harbour
Director
Producer
NILS GAUP
SIGVE ENDRESEN
Script
SIGVE ENDRESEN,
KENNY SAUNDERS
Photography
Cast
NIKOLAJ COSTER WALDAU,
ANNEKE VON DER LIPPE, STUART
GRAHAM, GRAHAM GREEN, BJONN
FLOBERG, HYWEL BENNETT, MARGOT
FINLEY, STIG HOFFMEYER, LARS GORAN
PERSSON, MATS HELIN
ERLING THURMANN-ANDERSON
Location
Editor
Format
BARRY VINCE
Design
KARL JULIUSSON
Music
JOACHIM HOLBEK
ST. JOHN’S, GANDER
35 MM FEATURE
Running Time
100 MINUTES
Production Company
RED OCHRE PRODUCTIONS
Release Date
AUGUST, 2000
Misery Harbour portrays the adventures of a teenage boy in the
early 1900s who boards a schooner in Oslo harbour and sets sail
for Newfoundland. His voyage is a steady stream of mistreatment
and narrow escapes. Near Fogo Island he jumps ship and swims
ashore where he spends the next phase of his life. Later, having
become a famous writer, he tries to make sense of the dramatic
events of his entry into manhood.
Violet
Director
Producer
Script
ROSEMARY HOUSE
MARY SEXTON
ROSEMARY HOUSE
Photography
NIGEL MARKHAM
Editor
TREVOR AMBROSE
Design
STEPHEN OSLER
Music
PAUL STEFFLER
Cast
MARY WALSH, PETER
MACNEILL, ANDREW YOUNGHUSBAND,
SUSAN KENT, BARRY NEWHOOK, JODY
RICHARDSON, RAOUL BHANJA
Location
Format
ST. JOHN’S
35 MM
Running Time
105 MINUTES
Production Company
DARK
FLOWERS PRODUCTIONS INC .
Release Date
AUGUST, 2000
When Violet O’Brien’s brother dies suddenly at the age of 55, Violet feels the hand of fate
upon her. Both her parents died at that age and Violet is about to enter the lethal year herself.
She goes into an existential tailspin as her fractured family gathers round, or circles round in
the case of her crazy cousin Lynda. Violet has a lot to live for, including a hot romance with
farm manager Rusty. But it’s a dangerous world, as Violet is about to find out.
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The Divine Ryans
Director
STEPHEN REYNOLDS
Producer
CHRISTOPHER
ZIMMER, ROBERT PETRIE
Script
WAYNE JOHNSTON
Photography
ALWYN KUMS T
Editor
JEFF WARREN
Design
JIM PHILLIPS
Music
DENIS CAREY,
DAVE KEARY, RAY FEAN
Set in St. John’s, this film is about sex, religion, love and hockey. The story line
concerns Draper Doyle, age 9, who sets out to solve the mystery surrounding
the death of his father and with the help of his strange Uncle Reg, seeks to
free himself, his mother and sister from the grasp of the Ryan family history.
The Danger Tree
Director
JOHN MCGREEVY
Producer
JANICE TUFFORD,
MARILYN A. BELEC
Script
DAVID MACFARLANE
Photography, Cinematography
NIGEL MARKHAM
Editor
JOHN MCGREEVY
Music
JOHN MCCARTHY
Cast
DAVID MCFARLANE
Location
Format
NEWFOUNDLAND
TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY
Running Time
50 MINUTES
Production Company
NATIONAL FILM
BOARD, GENERIC PRODUCTIONS INC., NFLD
MOTION PICTURES INC.
Memory and history mingle in this moving account of one family’s journey
through WWI and the events leading up to Newfoundland’s confederation
with Canada.
David MacFarlane narrates this story of his great grandparents, Josiah and
Louisa Goodyear, and their seven children, who, at the turn of the century left
behind the hardships of the cod fishery along the northeast coast and moved
to Grand Falls, a boom town founded around a brand new paper mill. When
Newfoundland decides to contribute an entire regiment to the war effort, five
Goodyear sons go off to fight in Europe. Their story is paralleled with that of
the country of Newfoundland, which risked and lost more than it could afford
in contributing to the war effort.
Imaginative narration, still photographs, archival and recent footage
interweave to form a moving portrait of an almost forgotten period.
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Cast
PETE POSTLETHWAITE,
WENDEL MELDRUM, MARY WALSH,
ROBERT JOY, RICK BOLAND, JORDAN HARVEY
Location
Format
ST. JOHN’S, HALIFAX
35 MM
Running Time
106 MINUTES
Production Company
PETRIVISION
COMMUNICATIONS
Release Date
NOVEMBER, 1999
No Apologies
Director
Producer
Script
KEN PITTMAN
TERRY GREENLAW
KEN PITTMAN
Photography
Editor
Design
Music
LIONEL SIMMONS
WILLIAM D. MACGILLIVRAY
KEITH CURRIE
ALEXANDER TILLEY
Cast
BARRIE DUNN, BRYAN
HENNESSEY, MAISIE RILLIE, TONY QUINN,
KEN MERCER, MARY LEWIS, FRANCES
KNICKLE, FRANKIE O’FLAHERTY,
RICK MERCER
Location
Format
NEWFOUNDLAND
35 MM FEATURE
Running Time
89 MINUTES
Production Company
B.I.G. FILMS LTD.
No Apologies, a feature film set in Newfoundland, is an intense family drama driven by death, romance and politics. Mark,
a well-known filmmaker, has spent many of his 35 years away from Newfoundland, documenting deprivation and oppression
in the world. When he receives word that his father is dying, he returns to White Falls, a hard-pressed Newfoundland company
town, to be with his family – his mother, sister and two brothers.
As Mark deals with his father’s pain and his anger at the political forces he cannot control, he also draws closer to his older
brother, Matthew. They decide to fight back at the forces that have caused their father’s death, and affected the lives of those
who live and work in the poorest corner of one of the richest nations in the world.
The Bingo Robbers
Director
Cast
LOIS BROWNE, BARRY
NEWHOOK
LOIS BROWNE, BARRY NEWHOOK,
JANICE SPENCE, SHEILA REDMOND, PHIL
DINN, BERNIE STAPLETON, LIZ PICKARD,
BRYAN HENNESSEY, ANDY JONES, JODY
RICHARDSON
Photography
Location
Producer
LOIS BROWNE
DANA WARREN
Script
Editor
Design
Music
DEAN SKERRITT
DEREK NORMAN
GEOFF YOUNGHUSBAND
FUR PACKED ACTION
Format
ST. JOHN’S
BETA SP
Running Time
90 MINUTES
Production Company
BINGO
ROBBERS INC.
Release Date
SEPTEMBER, 2000
Tonight is the “24-hour all night bingo extravaganza”. Nancy
and Vallis, friends since childhood, musicians turned petty thieves,
are going to steal the jackpot. After a crazed night of attempted
robberies, foiled by their own desperately human need to talk and
argue incessantly about their lives and life in general, they find some
shred of personal integrity in their steadfast loyalty to each other.
As dawn approaches, they make away with the real jackpot - love.
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Town Beat
Producer
MARY SEXTON
Script
ED RICHE, MACK FURLONG,
STEVE PALMER
Photography
Design
Music
Cast
NIGEL MARKHAM
MARTY SEXTON
PAUL STEFFLER
A satirical television series about a man named Paul Moth who hosts Town Beat!, a
Location
Format
ST. JOHN’S
magazine style show on civic affairs and culture produced at Cable 62, the community
channel in the fictional town of Burgton, a medium sized, middle Canadian municipality
BETA SP
Running Time
22 MINUTES
Production Company
RINK RAT
known for its once great arts college and its extra maximum security prison. Paul
Moth is urbane, witty and opinionated though personable and diplomatic as befitting
PRODUCTIONS INC.
a host. Paul is “hip but humbled”, a bruised veteran of a checkered career in the
Release Date
entertainment industry that bottomed out in substance abuse and trouble with the
TBD
law. Paul’s rocky road to recovery (recounted in his published memoir of the same
MACK FURLONG
name) has been paved with market media jobs, Town Beat! being the latest.
Random Passage
Director
JOHN SMITH
Design
NORMAND SARRAZIN
Producers
Cast
CITÉ-AMÉRIQUE CINÉMA
TÉLÉVISION INC. - LORRAINE RICHARD,
LOUIS LAVERDI ÉRE
Location
SUBOPTICA ENTERTAINMENT TRISTAN ORPEN LYNCH, LESLIE KELLY
Running Time
Script
Production Company
PASSAGE FILMS INC. BARBARA DORAN, JENNICE RIPLEY
DES WALSH
Photography
Editor
PIERRE LETARTE
JEAN - PIERRE CEREGHETTI
AOIFE MCMAHON,
DEBORAH POLLITT, COLM MEANEY,
BRENDA DEVINE, JESSICA PARE,
MICHAEL SEPIEHA, MARY WALSH
OLD BONAVENTURE,
NEWFOUNDLAND AND IRELAND
8 X 1 HOUR SERIES
PASSAGE
FILMS INC., CITÉ - AMÉRIQUE AND
SUBOPTICA ENTERTAINMENT
Release Date
JANUARY, 2002
An epic tale of British and Irish immigrants making the trek to Newfoundland in the early part of the 19th century, with the focus
on the women’s journey from the workhouses in rural England to the squalor of St. John’s to the fictional outport of Cape Random.
Dooley Gardens
Director
GILES WALKER, HENRY
SAWER-FONER, GRAHAM CAMPBELL
Producer
MARY SEXTON
Script
ANDREW YOUNGHUSBAND,
ED RICHE, MARY SEXTON, ANDY JONES
Photography
Editor
Design
NIGEL MARKHAM
BRETT SULLIVAN, GLEN NEARY
STEPHEN OSLER
Cast
MARY WALSH, ANDY JONES,
ANDREW YOUNGHUSBAND,
NICOLE DEBOER, KEN CAMPBELL
Location
Format
ST. JOHN’S
BETA SP
Running Time
6 X 22 MINUTES
Production Company
RINK RAT PRODUCTIONS
Music
PAUL STEFFLER,
SANDY MORRIS
Set in the “oldest covered, artificial ice surface” in St. John’s,
the rink of last resort, this series follows the struggles, the
triumphs, and more often, the failures of the aged hockey rink’s
staff and its regular visitors.
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Steeplechasing
Director
KEN PITTMAN
Exec. Producer
BARRY COWLING
Producers
KEN PITTMAN,
BARRY COWLING
Script
GEOFF NOBLE,
SUSAN SHILLINGFORD
Photography
KEVIN HANLON
LLOYD PENNELL,
Editor
Cast
TBD
GEOFF NOBLE (HOST)
Location
Format
VARIOUS NFLD LOCATIONS
30 MIN X 6 TV SERIES
Running Time
42 MINUTES
Production Company
STEEPLE IV PRODUCTIONS INC.
Release Date
JANUARY, 2002
Steeplechasing is a 6 episode half-hour television series devoted
to exploring beautiful and diverse Newfoundland communities,
their people, music and their breathtaking churches.
Quest for the Sea
Director
Producer
DON YOUNG
JAMIE BROWN
Format
BETA CAM, MINI DV
Running Time
4 X 1HOUR
Co-Producers
PAUL POPE,
LYNNE SKROMEDA
Production Company
Script
Release Date
DON YOUNG
Photography
FRANTIC
FILMS/QUEST FOR THE SEA NL INC.
JANUARY 2003
DON YOUNG
Editor
DAVID MCGUNIGAL & DAN
CALDWELL
Location
NEWFOUNDLAND
Quest for the Sea is a 4x1-hour living history documentary series that follows
2 families as they return to a lost way of life in a remote fishing village in
Newfoundland. In simple wooden homes with only the tools, clothing, and
supplies of 1937, five adults and five children will live under a mercantile
system and need to rely on cod fishing for their sustenance and survival.
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Bloodlines
Director
WENDY ROWLAND
Producer
ANNETTE CLARKE
Script
WENDY ROWLAND
Photography
Editor
NIGEL MARKHAM
TBD
Location
Format
DIGITAL BETA
Running Time
50 MINUTES
Production Company
RUBY LINE PRODUCTIONS INC.
Release Date
FALL, 2002
NFLD AND ICELAND
Bloodlines takes us to two of the most desired locations for human
genetic research. Newfoundland and Iceland - both with economies
that cling to the coastline and a dwindling fishing industry - have
discovered a new natural resource, DNA. As Newfoundland races to
establish a province-wide ethics board, Iceland faces opposition to
legislation that has already been passed. Can Newfoundland protect
what is perhaps its most valuable resource and ensure that significant
benefits return to the people and the province? Has Iceland gone far
enough in protecting the rights of its citizens? What will be the
consequence of this new alliance between genetic research and
the private sector?
Bloodlines will follow this growing industry as the two
island populations struggle with complex legal and ethical issues
that position DNA as common heritage on the one hand and
incredibly valuable stock on the other.
Letters from Eliza
Director
DAVID QUINTON
Exec. Producer
Producer
JIM BYRD
DAVID QUINTON
Associate Producers
KEN PITTMAN,
ELIZABETH REYNOLDS
Script
DAVID QUINTON,
DONALD DOWNER
Photography
Editor
HOWARD PACK
DAVID QUINTON
Cast
DON DOWNER,
ELIZABETH REYNOLDS
Location
PHASE I ARGENTIA,
PHASE II NFLD
Format
BETA SP / MONO SOUND
Running Time
52 MINUTES
Production Company
EDGE OF THE EARTH PRODUCTIONS LTD.
Release Date
NOVEMBER, 2001
Eliza Lewis is 100 years old. When she was 13, she left home
on Fogo Island, Newfoundland and sailed to Patagonia on the
southern tip of Argentina. By letters for decades, she kept alive
her friendships, and to her great delight, on her 100th birthday
her loving grand-niece announces she’s off to Fogo to make sure
that Eliza’s friendships are confirmed in the flesh.
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White Thunder
Director
VICTORIA KING
Producers
Location
NEWFOUNDLAND &
LABRADOR, NEWPORT & NEW YORK CITY
ANNETTE CLARKE,
KENT MARTIN
Format
Script
Running Time
VICTORIA KING
Photography
Editor
NIGEL MARKHAM
TERRE NASH
DIGITAL BETA
50 MINUTES
Production Company
FACTORY LANE PRODUCTIONS INC.
Release Date
FEBRUARY, 2002
On March 15, 1931, just as night has fallen, a sixty-foot tower of flame
shoots up out of the ocean. The blast cuts the hard silence off the bleak
north-east coast of Newfoundland. Half burnt and fractured bodies dot the ice
floes surrounding what’s left of the SS Viking, a wooden-walled ship which had sailed the frozen arctic seas for over fifty years.
Anonymous citizens of an unknown country mourn the death of 24 of its sons and one young adopted son, Lewis Varick Frissell.
It was the era of Western expansionism in North America when the “north” signified empty space, abundant resources and endless
opportunity. It was the heyday of the hero and Frissell had all the right traits. A wealthy and well-connected New Yorker, he was
making a dramatic film about the sealers off Canada’s north-east coast.
Frissell’s body was never found and the disaster rocked a continent. The international entertainment world grieved alongside the
Newfoundland sealers who walked the ice flows to safety. The brilliantly photographed reality footage remains a remarkable legacy
to a people, an era and a controversial way of life.
White Thunder uses stunning archival film footage, journal accounts, character narrators, evocative current day footage of the site of
the disaster as well as interviews with survivors, family members and historians to provocatively reveal the imagination and spirit of
not one individual but a period in history when adventurism and exploration was at its peak.
The Invisible Machine
Electromagnetic Weapon or Natural Disaster?
Director
BARBARA DORAN /
JON WHALEN
Cast MARY LYNN BERNARD, ROGER
Producer
Location
LYNNE WILSON
Script
MAUNDER, DES WALSH
NEWFOUNDLAND, USA,
OTTAWA, TORONTO
BARBARA DORAN /
JON WHALEN
Format
Director of Photography
Running Time
NIGEL
MARKHAM, MIKE GRIPPEL, ELI YONOVA,
JAMIE LEWIS
BETA SP
46 MINUTES
Production Company
Editor
ANGELA BAKER
MORAG PRODUCTIONS / INVISIBLE
ENTERTAINMENT
Music
LORI CLARKE
Release Date
SEPTEMBER 2003
The Invisible Machine unravels the mystery of the Bell Island “boom” and in doing so, explores the expanding and frightening frontier of
electromagnetic science. While the US military experiments with electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapons or e-bombs, the question must
be asked: were the bizarre events on Bell Island, Newfoundland in 1978 related to early testing of these directed energy weapons and if
so, what are the consequences of unleashing this powerful force today?
Executive Producer: Barbara Doran, Producer: Lynne Wilson, Co-Producers: Jon Whalen and Lee Tizzard.
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Fool Proof
Director
Script
MARIAN F. WHITE
MARIAN F. WHITE
Producer
PAUL POPE / MARIAN F. WHITE
Location
ST. JOHN’S,
PETTY HARBOUR
Format
Director of Photography
Running Time 48 MINUTES.
JOHN VATCHER
Production Company
Editor
CODLESSCO LTD.
DORIAN ROWE
Music Supervisor
SANDY MORRIS
Release Date
Cast
BENI MALONE, ANAHAREO WHITEMALONE, ANDY JONES, KARIN ALDER
Fool Proof takes us on an international roller coaster ride as we explore the history and art of clowning. With professional clown
Beni Malone as ringmaster, this one hour documentary is a visual feast which celebrates the rich history and recent renaissance
of the most animated of performing arts. The journey comes full circle when Malone is joined on stage by his aerialist daughter,
Anahareo. Fool Proof combines rare archival footage with fascinating real life stories, to create a springboard into the
world phenomena of circus arts.
Mummers & Masks
Director
PETER BLOW
Producers
PETER BLOW,
CHRIS BROOKES
Script
CHRIS BROOKES
Photography
Editor
Cast
NIGEL MARKHAM
GLEN NEARY
Location
Format
NFLD, DEVON, PHILADELPHIA
BETA SP
Running Time
60 MINUTES
Production Company
BATTERY INCLUDED/LINDUM FILMS
Release Date
APRIL, 2002
DOCUMENTARY
Mummers and Masks is a one-hour documentary Christmas Special
that explores the ageless world of mummers. The producer
traces the legacy of mummering from the humble kitchen parties
of the remote outports of Newfoundland to the wild parades
and razzmatazz of the New Orleans Mardi Gras, and the gaudy
present-day Philadelphia Mummer’s Parade with its swirling
batons, clowns and string bands, to the ancient folk dramas (with
their ageless renditions of death and resurrection) still annually,
lovingly re-enacted in rustic corners of the British Isles and Europe.
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16 MM
DECEMBER, 2002
Return to Mayalan
Director
NIGEL MARKHAM
Producer
NIGEL MARKHAM,
MARY SEXTON
Script
NIGEL MARKHAM
Photography
Editor
NIGEL MARKHAM
ANGELA BAKER
Location
Format
GUATEMALA
BETA SP
Running Time
50 MINUTES
Production Company
LAZYBANK
PRODUCTIONS LTD.
Release Date
MAY, 1999
Return to Mayalan is an hour long film about the return of Guatemala’s
refugees to their homeland after years of exile in Mexico.
The film’s focus is on one group of refugees, former members of the
Cooperative Communities of the Ixcan Grande who are now attempting to resume their lives in the land they fled
under terrible circumstances in the early 1980’s. The return of the refugees has been an extremely important event
in this struggle. The ability of the refugees to re-establish their lives in peace and security is seen as a test case
for the entire society and is being closely watched both in Guatemala and throughout the world.
The film celebrates their courage, determination and accomplishments.
Jailhouse Romance
Director
WENDY ROWLAND
Producer
ANNETTE CLARKE
Script
Location
Format
KINGSTO N
VIDEO BETACAM SP
WENDY ROWLAND,
ANNETTE CLARKE
Running Time
Cinematography
PRODUCTIONS
Editor
ELI YONOVA
ANGELA BAKER
45-50 MINUTES
Production Company
Release Date
RUBY LINE
JANUARY, 2001
Jailhouse Romance is a documentary about women who
love and marry men incarcerated for violent crime. What brings
women on the outside to men serving time, sometimes 25 year
sentences, inside penal institutions? How do they live with the
crimes that the partners have committed? And what draws
the men to these relationships? What kind of love flourishes
or is sustained within such unusual circumstances and under
such a demanding and seemingly one-sided set-up?
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The Newfoundland Passion
Director
ARNOLD BENNETT
Producer
DENNIS BROWNE
Script
CLAR DOYLE
Photography
Editor
Design
NIGEL MARKHAM
KEN PITTMAN
ARNOLD BENNETT
Location
Format
ST. JOHN’S
TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY
Running Time
60 MINUTES
Production Company
CINÉ TERRNEUVE, SLEEPING GIANT PRODUCTIONS
JIM HANLEY, PAUL MCCONVEY
Release Date
SEPTEMBER, 1998
Music
EMILE BENOIT, JIM FIDLER,
MICHAEL PARKER, GAYLE TAPPER
Cast
ANITA BEST, ANDY JONES,
TERRI ANDREWS, MARK CRITCH,
JUSTIN NURSE, SHERRI LEVESQUE,
LOIS SAUNDERS, CHRISTA BORDEN
A film about an artist, his island, and his Jesus. The personality of profoundly spiritual Newfoundland artist Gerald Squires
permeates this film – compassionate, yet brimming with ironic humour and intelligence. Sharp focus close-ups make his
paintings come alive as they relate the Passion as a Newfoundland story.
From a fisherman’s cabin overlooking St. John’s harbour, where Jesus and the disciples gather for the Last Supper, Squires’
paintings – and the film – follow the Celtic Jesus through the stations of the Cross over the bogs and barrens of Newfoundland’s
harsh landscape, to his Crucifixion on a cliff overlooking the North Atlantic, to his miraculous Resurrection above the sea.
Closing the Gap:
0.4 mg of Prevention
Director
Producer
SHARON HALFYARD
SHARON HALFYARD
Script
CARMELITA MCGRATH,
SHARON HALFYARD
Photography
KEVIN HANLON
Editor
SHARON HALFYARD,
JOHN BONNELL
Music
PAUL STEFFLER
Location
Format
ST. JOHN’S AND AREA
BETA SP 30
Running Time
25 MINUTES
Production Company CURZON
VILLAGE PRODUCTIONS INC.
Release Date
JUNE, 2000
Design BETH OBERHOLTZER
A 25-minute documentary which informs viewers that women
can reduce the risk of Spina Bifida significantly if they take the
B-vitamin Folic Acid.
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Seven Brides for
Uncle Sam
Director
Producer
Script
ANITA MCGEE
KENT MARTIN
ANITA MCGEE
Photography
NIGEL MARKHAM
Editor
ANGELA BAKER
Music
SANDY MORRIS
Location
Format
BETA SP
Running Time
47 MINUTES /
52 MINUTES (TWO VERSIONS)
Production Company
NATIONAL
FILM BOARD OF CANADA
Release Date
NOVEMBER, 1997
ST. JOHN’S, STEPHENVILLE,
ARGENTIA
The story of seven Newfoundland women who married American
servicemen...for better or worse.
Messiah from Montreal
Director
ARNOLD BENNETT
Producer
KEN PITTMAN,
ARNOLD BENNETT
Executive Producers
JIM HANLEY, PAUL MCCONVEY,
NANCY BENNETT
Script
ARNOLD BENNETT
Photography
Editor
RICARDO DIAZ
ARNOLD BENNETT
Design
PAM HALL
Music Director
TARA MANUEL-RIGLER,
MARTIN VALLÉE, DAVID WALL
JIM FIDLER,
DAVID WALL, RUFUS CAPPADOCIA,
PAUL BENDSZA
Location
Cast
Format
AL WAXMAN, JIM FIDLER,
DAMHNAIT DOYLE, GREG MALONE,
BERNI STAPLETON, KEVIN LEWIS,
TERRI ANDREWS, PAUL BENDZSA,
RUFUS CAPPADOCIA, FRED
HAWKSLEY, LORI HEATH,
MORRIS HODDER, JOEL HYNES,
ST. JOHN’S, MONTREAL,
TORONTO, OTTAWA
TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY
Running Time
90 MINUTES
Production Company
CINÉ TERRE-NEUVE
Release Date
OCTOBER, 2001
Critics called Abraham Moses Klein Canada’s greatest poet ever. He
was the first person to write significant Jewish poetry in the English
language. Today, a half century after he won the Governor General’s
Award, a quarter century after his death, he is nearly forgotten.
His disappearance from memory was presaged by the tragedy that
engulfed Klein during his lifetime. In his mid-forties, at the height of
his talents, he plunged into a spiritual crisis that silenced him. For
the last eighteen years of his life, silence prevailed. Al Waxman tells
Klein’s story, exploring Klein’s inner crisis as the film searches for the
poet in dramatic performances of his poetry, some set to music and
sung by Jim Fidler, Damhnait Doyle and others.
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Hebron Relocation:
A Move Toward
Healing The Pain
Director
NIGEL MARKHAM
Producer
FRAN WILLIAMS
Script
CAROL BRICE-BENNETT
Photography
NIGEL MARKHAM, SARAH ABEL
Editor
SARAH ABEL
Location
HEBRON, NAIN, HOPEDALE,
MAKKOVIK, ST. JOHN’S
Format
BETACAM SP
Running Time
Production Company
OKALAKATIGET SOCIETY
Release Date
In 1959, the Inuit from Northern Labrador were uprooted and relocated to various communities in the south.
The relocation turned out to be a traumatic and disruptive experience in the lives of these people and their
descendants. Families were separated from each other, bonds of kinship and marriage were broken. The
social and economic equilibrium that they had known in the north was shattered, and was never recovered.
The decision to relocate Hebron was to have consequences for northern Inuit that continue to this day.
Quest for Ancient
Footsteps
Director
Producer
SHARON HALFYARD
SHARON HALFYARD
Script
Location
Format
PORT AU CHOIX
BETACAM SP
SHARON HALFYARD,
FRED HOLLINGSHURST
Running Time
Photography
PRODUCTIONS INC.
Music
KEVIN HANLON
PAUL STEFFLER
49:45 MINUTES
Production Company
Release Date
CURZON VILLAGE
OCTOBER, 1998
The 4,000 year old Maritime Archaic Indian cemetery in Port au Choix, discovered in
1967, is one of the richest archaeological burial sites in the world. Filled with elaborate
grave goods, the cemetery is suggestive of a thriving and successful culture. But
what of the habitation site of these people who buried their dead with such care and
obvious ceremony? The life of these inhabitants has eluded archaeologists for years.
For the better part of two decades, Dr. Priscilla Renouf has searched in vain for the
settlement site of these ancient aboriginal people. Discouraged but not defeated,
she re-evaluated her strategy during the summer of 1996.
With increasing dramatic tension, this engaging documentary weaves the stories of
a passionate human journey and methodical scientific exploration. It reveals a place
and its peoples; and the amazing connection between the community of Maritime
Archaic Indians who lived in that place four thousand years ago and the community
of Newfoundland fishers who call it home at the end of the twentieth century.
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60 MINUTES
OCTOBER, 2001
Joey Smallwood:
Between Scoundrels
and Saints
Director
Producer
Script
BARBARA DORAN
LINDA FITZPATRICK
BARBARA DORAN
Photography
NIGEL MARKHAM
Editor
PETER WINTONNICK
Music
SANDY MORRIS
Cast
Location
NFLD, OTTAWA, HALIFAX,
NEW YORK
Running Time
1 HOUR
Production Company
MORAG
PRODUCTIONS
Release Date
MARCH, 1999
KEVIN NOBLE
Joey Smallwood: Between Scoundrels and Saints is a 1-hour
documentary for the CBC National “Life and Times” series on Joey
Smallwood’s childhood, upbringing, personal life, political life and role
as the 10th Father of Confederation and first Premier of Newfoundland.
My Left Breast
Director
Producer
Script
GERRY ROGERS
PAUL POPE
GERRY ROGERS
Photography
PEGGY NORMAN ET AL
Editor
TERRE NASH
Format
Music
PAUL STEFFLER
Running Time
Cast
NARRATOR GERRY ROGERS
Location
ST. JOHN’S
AND CARBONEAR
BETA SP
1 HOUR
Production Company
POPE PRODUCTIONS
Release Date
OCTOBER, 2000
My Left Breast is the personal story of Gerry Rogers and her experience with breast cancer.
In June 1999, Gerry was diagnosed with invasive, infiltrating, ductal carcinoma. In early
July 1999, she had a modified, radical mastectomy and underwent 6 months of chemotherapy
after which she had 6 weeks of daily radiation, to be followed by years of Tamoxifen.
Portrait of a 70 Foot Artist
Director
ANITA MCGEE
Producers
ANNETTE CLARKE
& LINDA FITZPATRICK
Photography
Editor
ELLIE YONOVA
DORIAN ROWE
Location
Format
ST. JOHN’S, NEWFOUNDLAND
DVCAM
Running Time
24 MINUTES
Production Company
RUBY LINE PRODUCTIONS INC.
Release Date
AUGUST 2003
Fed a steady diet of Barbies and perfect B-cups since childhood, St. John’s based multi-media artist Andrea Cooper
realized early on that she, and the women around her, didn’t look much like the women she saw on television.
In Portrait of a 70 Foot Artist Cooper lampoons and scrutinizes modern-day images of sexiness and femininity.
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I Remain, Your Loving Son
Executive Producer
Producer
Script
BOB WAKEHAM
BILL COULTAS
BOB WAKEHAM
Photography
TY EVANS
Location BEAUMONT HAMEL FRANCE,
ST. JOHN’S, LITTLE HARBOUR,
BAY ROBERTS
Running Time
46:50 MINUTES
Production Company
Editor
GERRY MACDONALD
SPRINGWATER PRODUCTIONS
Music
SANDY MORRIS
Release Date
NOVEMBER, 1999
The film tells the story of the military disaster of Beaumont Hamel,
France, where, out of 801 soldiers, only 68 returned for the role call the
next morning. All were soldiers of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment.
Now it’s Our Turn
Director
Producer
MARION CHEEKS
MARION CHEEKS
Script
Location
Format
LABRADOR
BETA
MARION CHEEKS,
MONIQUE TOBIN
Running Time
Photography
WATER LAND SKY PRODUCTIONS INC.
Editor
JAMIE LEWIS
LYLY FORTIN
50:00 MINUTES
Production Company
Release Date
NOVEMBER, 2001
A one-hour video documentary of this unique and widely
celebrated annual festival that explores the role of culture
isolation and the creative process among young people
from remote northern communities. Through live original
performance and visual art, Labrador youth tell the stories
of their lives and the Labrador community. With
interviews, footage of workshop activity, and archival
material from 25 years of festival participation, young
adults and community leaders express what it is to live
and create social awareness in Labrador.
Image designed by Lyly Fortin
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Ron Hynes:
The Irish Tour
Director
Producer
Script
ROSEMARY HOUSE
MARY SEXTON
ROSEMARY HOUSE
Photography
NIGEL MARKHAM
Editor
DEREK NORMAN
Music
PAUL STEFFLER
Location
ST. JOHN’S, DUBLIN,
GALWAY, COBH
Format
BETA SP
Running Time
48 MINUTES
Production Company
RINK RAT PRODUCTIONS INC.
Release Date
MARCH, 2000
Cast
RON HYNES, MARY BLACK,
CHRISTY MOORE
The story of “Sonny’s Dream” (the song) provides the initial motivation for this film documentary. But essentially
it is the story of Newfoundland meeting Ireland, of Ron Hynes coming face to face with himself and his music
in another incarnation, another country. Newfoundland was almost exclusively settled by people from Ireland
and the west country of England. There is an obvious connection between the Irish love for lyrical expression
and the songs of Ron Hynes.
The Untold Story
Director
GREG MALONE
Producer
MARIAN FRANCES
WHITE, MARY WHITE
Script
MARIAN FRANCES WHITE
Photography
DAVID DE VOLPI
Editor
GREG MALONE
Design
CODLESSCO
Music
SANDY MORRIS
Cast
RUTH LAWRENCE, KAY ANONSEN,
JANICE SPENCE, CATHY JONES, BRIAN
HENNESSEY, PETE SOUCY, GREG
MALONE
Location
Format
ST. JOHN’S
16 MM
Running Time
1 HOUR
Production Company
CODLESSCO LIMITED
Release Date
SEPTEMBER, 1999
A story of women struggling to get a succession of governments to
take their demands for the vote seriously, as well as the story of the
men who supported their struggle, and those who stood in their way.
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New Neighbours
Director
ANITA MCGEE
Producer
ANITA MCGEE
Script
ANITA MCGEE
Photography
ROBERT PETRIE
Editor ANITA MCGEE
Design
Music
ANNE MACLEOD
PAUL STEFFLER
Cast
MAISIE RILLIE
Location
Format
ST. JOHN’S
35 MM, BETA SP
Running Time
6:45 MINUTES
Production Company
KICKHAM PRODUCTIONS
Release Date
OCTOBER, 1999
A woman’s calm relaxed life of tea and books is interrupted
when new neighbours move in. This film is about better sex
next door.
When Ponds
Freeze Over
Director
Producer
Script
MARY LEWIS
MARY LEWIS
MARY LEWIS
Photography
MIKE JONES
Editor
MARY LEWIS,
DEREK NORMAN
Music
MATTHEW GLOVER
Cast
EVA CROCKER, BONNIE DEAN,
JIM ALLODI, MARY LEWIS,
GABE WILLIAMS
Location
Format
ST. JOHN’S
16 MM
Running Time
26 MINUTES
Production Company
FROM HERE PRODUCTIONS
Release Date
AUGUST, 1998
A dramatic film about memory which combines live-action
with animation. Mary tells a bedtime story to her daughter about
one winter day when, as a teenager, her father went through the
ice of a frozen pond and, in an attempt to save him, she went
through. As she struggles to get free from under the ice, glimpses
of the lives of her ancestors swirl about her. She is finally pulled
from the ice by the ghost of her grandfather, as she witnesses
her own parents’ wedding party before her on the frozen pond.
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Clothesline Patch
Director
MARY LEWIS
Producer
ANITA MCGEE,
ROBERT PETRIE
Executive Producer
CHRISTOPHER ZIMMER
Script
DONNA MORRISSEY
Photography
Editor
Design
Music
DAVID DE VOLPI
LARA MAZUR
MARTY SEXTON
GEOFF PANTING
Cast
ROBYN LUNDRIGAN, SUSAN
STACEY, SARA MEYER, CHRISTOPHER
DOWNEY, BERNI STAPLETON,
JACQUELINE ST. CROIX, SHEILA
REDMOND, GLENN DOWNEY
Location
ST. JOHN’S AND
SURROUNDING AREA
Format
DIGIBETA, BETA SP
Running Time
23:00 MINUTES
Production Company
PATCH PRODUCTIONS LIMITED
Release Date
MARCH, 2000
Clothesline Patch is the story of a young girl trying to keep a secret
in a small Newfoundland outport, an unlikely setting for keeping
secrets. The central focus is the clothesline patch, the communal
clearing where washing is set out to dry. It is also the place where gossip is shared. Ten year old Hannah is
determined that her secret of becoming a woman must never reach the clothesline patch. To ensure this, she
goes to extraordinary lengths to hide the fact that she has entered puberty, sometimes with amusing results.
Clothesline Patch is a delightful coming-of-age story set in 1960s Newfoundland. It portrays the times,
is strongly evocative of place and captures the personal challenges of living in a small Newfoundland town.
Wind Over Dark Tickle
Director
SHARON SMITH
Producer
Cast
HEATHER WALTER, ERIC WEST,
HILARIE VATCHER
SHARON SMITH,
JOHN VATCHER
Location
Script
Format
SHARON SMITH
Photography
Editor
Design
Music
JOHN VATCHER
DERM CARBERRY
DAVID WOODROW
ERIC WEST
NORTH EAST AVALON AREA
BETA CAM SP
Running Time
22 MINUTES
Production Company
COMPANION FILMS
Release Date
OCTOBER, 1999
Music, animation and live-action adventures at the Newfoundland
seaside reveal the story of a child who wonders, “Where have the
fish all gone?”. Based on the literary work written by Heather Walter
and Eric West.
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Balance Sheet
As At March 31, 2005
Note
ASSETS
Current Assests
Cash
Short term investments
Accounts receivable, net of allowances
Prepaid
Total Current Assets
Property, plant and equipment
2
Total Assets
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Current Liabilities
Payable and accruals
Equity investment program payables
Holdbacks payable - equity investment program
Total Liabilities
EQUITY
Share Capital
Surplus - end of year
Total Equity
Total Liabilities & Equity
41
7
2005
2004
$ 151,843
26,655
8,768
$ 257,911
89,898
14,751
11,030
187,266
373,590
12,545
15,710
$ 199,811
$ 389,300
$ 36,934
39,533
111,971
$
26,871
265,578
61,026
188,438
353,475
3
11,370
3
35,822
11,373
35,825
$ 199,811
$ 389,300
Statement of Operations
2005
2004
-
$ 550,000
420,000
180,000
1,573
32,845
Total Revenue
601,573
587,029
OPERATING EXPENSES
Advertising and promotion
Conferences and travel
Amortization of tangible assets
Guest productions
Office administration
Printed materials
Professional fees
Promotional and publications
Salaries and wages
Sponsorships
Miscellaneous expense
1,142
102,882
4,228
96,384
1,863
12,830
14,567
326,802
41,427
3,950
2,249
96,213
5,108
7,006
91,766
1,544
29,540
37,009
260,276
50,805
-
For the Year Ended March 31, 2005
Note
REVENUE
Canada-Newfoundland Comprehensive Economic
Development Agreement (CEDA)
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency Business Development Program (BDP)
Provincial Government - Department of Tourism, Culture and Recreation
HST rebate
Film Pro-expense reimbursement
Interest income
$
8.
9.
Total Operating Expenses
NET (LOSS) INCOME
3,953
231
606,075
$
(4,502 )
581,516
$
5,513
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Schedule of Receipts & Commitments Equity Investment Program
For the Year Ended March 31, 2005
Note
2005
2004
1,500,000
$ 1,000,000
RECEIPTS
Government Funding
Equity Investment Program
$
Recoupment
Equity Investment Program
18,399
15,024
Red Door
89,045
_
Deaf Defying
The Karluk
A Woman Between Two Islands
Dark Tickle
Mina Hubbards Way
Heber Peach
18,000
8,000
6,880
9,315
23,000
10,380
_
_
_
_
_
_
1,683,019
1,015,024
REDUCTION OF FUNDING
Red Door Films Inc.
FUNDING WHICH HAS LAPSED
Best Boy Productions Inc.
Factory Lane Productions Inc.
Rink Rat Productions Inc.
Rink Rat Productions Inc.
Springwater Productions Inc.
Upskydown Films
CURRENT YEAR COMMITMENTS
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2M Innovation Inc.
Hatching Matching & Dispatching
212,735
5,570
Above and Beyond Inc.
Above and Beyond
151,222
_
Alpha Productions Inc.
Boys From the Fringe
72,179
Augusta Productions Inc.
Pleasant Street
300
_
11,440
29,500
Augusta Productions Inc.
Duckworth
_
Best Boy Productions Inc.
Deaf Defying
_
18,000
Dark Flowers Productions Inc.
Hospital City
_
54,000
Edge of the Earth Productions Inc.
Letters to Eliza
_
Edge of the Earth Productions Inc.
Traces
3,766
_
Factory Lane Productions Inc.
A Life in Pictures
Factory Lane Productions Inc.
Girl Culture
Factory Lane Productions Inc.
Romancing the Labrador
11,412
_
5,276
_
20,250
_
7,814
8,000
Factory Lane Productions Inc.
The Karluk
_
Fire Crown Productions Inc.
Laughtershock
_
7,200
Fire Crown Productions Inc.
The Elsie Holloway Story
_
4,500
Fire Crown Productions Inc.
Face of the Beothucks
_
Fire Crown Productions Inc.
Stealing Mary
89,000
11,880
_
George Street TV Productions
George Street TV
54,929
_
Girl Culture Inc.
Girl Culture
40,500
_
Schedule of Receipts & Commitments Equity Investment Program cont’d
Going the Distance
_
157,000
Jim Byrd Productions Inc.
Colony of Unrequited Dreams
_
Kickham East Productions Inc.
Crackie
11,100
18,000
_
Kickham East Productions Inc.
Rabbittown
Kickham East Productions Inc.
The Boughwolfen
12,408
_
8,160
The Bread Maker
_
15,000
The Adventures of Cookie Clowe
_
4,127
Kickham East Productions Inc.
Come Hell or High Water
_
Lazybank Productions
Accordian Voices
7,000
_
Life with Derek Inc.
Life with Derek
Morag Productions Inc.
Dr. Olds of Twillingate
Morag Productions Inc.
Destinies Apart
14,679
Morag Productions Inc.
Disaster at Sea
15,000
Morag Productions Inc.
Love and Savagery
Morag Productions Inc.
Newfoundlanders: on the Edge
18,284
_
Morag Productions Inc.
Surfing in Newfoundland
13,500
Nanobody Productions Inc.
Nanobods
The NL Motion Picture Plant Ltd.
The Jack Tales
16,751
_
Newfound Films Inc.
Down to the Dirt
Newfound Films Inc.
St. John’s, West
Going the Distance Inc.
Kickham East Productions Inc.
Kickham East Productions Inc.
7,040
750,000
_
6,389
_
Pangur Ban Productions Inc.
Reaching Finisterre
_
Pope Productions Inc.
Above and Beyond
171,457
Pope Productions Inc.
Legends and Lore
Pope Productions Inc.
Media Jam
5,922
_
_
Pope Productions Inc.
Lots & Man Overboard
Pope Productions Inc.
Atlantic Sound
Pope Productions Inc.
Gander
11,215
_
Pope Productions Inc.
Hey Day
13,457
Pope Productions Inc.
Tempting Providence
Quest for the Sea NL Inc.
Quest for the Sea
Red Ochre Productions Inc.
Making Love in St. Pierre
Red Ochre Productions Inc.
Mr. Capone Est Arrive
Rink Rat Productions Inc.
Rink Rat Productions Inc.
Rink Rat Productions Inc.
Rock Island Productions Inc.
7,519
_
_
_
19,134
69,300
_
_
9,433
_
13,200
9,000
_
6,160
12,000
_
_
10,000
66,645
_
25,671
_
_
10,000
6,825
_
500
7,000
A Woman Between Two Islands
_
6,880
The Breaks
_
8,000
Dark Tickle
_
9,315
Bloomsday Cabaret
_
109,620
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Schedule of Receipts & Commitments Equity Investment Program Cont’d
Raising Rover
_
68,986
Ruby Line Productions Inc.
Girl Culture
_
Sky Bridge Productions
Ferry Command
11,404
7,000
_
Springwater Productions Inc.
Homegrown
25,272
_
Springwater Productions Inc.
Jean Claude Roy
_
Springwater Productions Inc.
Mina Hubbard’s Way
4,049
_
23,000
Heber Peach
_
10,380
Secrets Whispered
_
17,600
Zing Studios Inc.
George Street TV
_
Ruby Line Productions
Girl Culture
350
37,000
_
1,702,969
1,004,236
Ruby Line Productions Inc.
Upskydown Films
Upskydown Films
EXCESS OF RECEIPTS OVER COMMITMENTS
(COMMITMENTS OVER RECEIPTS)
CLOSING BALANCE
45
$
(19,950)
$
10,788
$
(9,389)
$
10,561
Board of Directors
Staff Members
Chair
Norm Whalen
Leo Furey, Executive director
Chris Bonnell, Director of Programs
Paula Magalios, Admin. Assistant
Catherine Bailey, Business Analyst
Suzanne Williams, Program Analyst
Vice-Chair
Noreen Golfman
Directors
Colleen Kennedy
Chris O’Dea
Brent Meade, Dept. of Tourism, Culture & Recreation
Tim Power, ACOA
Professional Development Initiatives
Operational support for Film Pro (Film Professional Development Inc.), an
• Adapting Fiction for the Screen (NFF)
industry driven, non-profit association created and operated exclusively for
• The Story on the Story (WFF)
the purpose of fostering professional development opportunities for members
• Introductory Location Sound Recording Workshop
of the Newfoundland and Labrador film industry came to an end on March 31,
• Commercial Voiceover CD
2005. Just prior to that date the Film Pro Board of Directors and the
• Actor Reels
Newfoundland and Labrador Film Development Corporation agreed to move
• Acting Workshop with Bob Joy (NFF)
the position to the Corporation. The Film Pro board also decided to maintain
• Doc Talk (WFF)
Film Pro as a legal entity which, when appropriate, would develop a program
• Documentary Master Class - The Corporation (NFF)
of activities, apply for funding and request the assistance of the NLFDC’s
• Digital Camera Workshop (NFF)
professional development officer to carry out these activities.
• Advanced Digital Filmmaking
• Hands-on DV (WFF)
Since April 2004 Film Pro and the Corporation partnered on a number of
• Seven Secrets to Short Filmmaking (WFF)
projects including:
• We Shoot, We Score! - Working with a composer (WFF)
• Safety Representative Program
• Assistant Directing Workshop
• Set Safety Set Protocol
• Down to Business (WFF)
• Fact finding mission to New York
• International Marketing for Feature Films
• Introductory Scriptwriting
Much of this professional development activity was carried out with other partners,
• Online Advanced Screenwriting Class
including the Nickel Independent Film Festival, the St. John’s International Women’s
• Short Script Competition and Workshop
Film and Video Festival, ACTRA and the Woody Point Writers’ Festival.
12 King’s Bridge Road
St. John’s, NL A1C 3K3
Tel 709.738.3456
Fax 709.739.1680
Email [email protected]
www.nlfdc.ca
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Newfoundland & Labrador
Film Development Corporation
12 King’s Bridge Road
St. John’s, NL Canada
A1C 3K3
Telephone: (709) 738-3456
Facsimile: (709) 739-1680
Toll Free: 1-877-738-3456
Website: www.nlfdc.ca