Ian Foster

Sons

Set against the backdrop of his son’s first five years of life—from cooing infant to hurricane of a boy—filmmaker Justin Simms looks at modern masculinity through the lens of fatherhood as he asks an increasingly urgent question: How do we teach our boys to be better men?

Bedlamer

On the shores of a small fishing village lives a lonely settlement of men - capturing and domesticating otherworldly creatures that were never meant to be tamed.

73 Seconds

It's 1986, Shannon Crane means to be bound for a future she cannot know, on a day filled with possibility and hope. In her 7th grade class, Shannon has to reckon with the ordinary calamity of being herself after a simultaneous incident of being bullied, is caught between the extraordinary catastrophic event of the space challenger disaster, leaving a debris of searching, questioning.

Ballad of North Whale

After Raam, an international student, moves to Newfoundland to pursue his dreams and education, his housemate Joseph loses his job amidst the global pandemic. As they set out on a whale watching trip together, tragedy strikes leaving Raam questioning everything he knows.

The Gaze

Ginok Song, a South Korean artist living and painting in a small fishing village in Newfoundland, explores what home is, who she was, and where she is now. Ginok examines the choice to become an artist as a need to explore self-expression, an intimate journey to know herself through the female gaze.

Close to the Bone: The Film

The film accompanying the album "Closer to the Bone" by Ian Foster.

Close to the Bone: The Film

The film accompanying the album "Closer to the Bone" by Ian Foster.

Close to the Bone: The Film

The film accompanying the album "Closer to the Bone" by Ian Foster.

Close to the Bone: The Film

The film accompanying the album "Closer to the Bone" by Ian Foster.

HAND. LINE. COD.

In the coldest waters surrounding Newfoundland's rugged Fogo Island, "people of the fish"—traditional fishers—catch cod live by hand, one at a time, by hook and line. After a 20-year moratorium on North Atlantic cod, the stocks are returning. These fishers are leading a revolution in sustainability, taking their premium product directly to the commercial market for the first time. Travel with them from the early morning hours, spend time on the ocean, and witness the intricacies of a 500-year-old tradition that's making a comeback.

Keystone

When Jack begins to forget, he visits Keystone, an organization with an unlikely mandate: making your most important memories truly unforgettable.

Keystone

When Jack begins to forget, he visits Keystone, an organization with an unlikely mandate: making your most important memories truly unforgettable.

Keystone

When Jack begins to forget, he visits Keystone, an organization with an unlikely mandate: making your most important memories truly unforgettable.