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Northerner

Northerner is a short super-hero film. The style and premise make it a 'street level' story because the characters have no supernatural powers, but still deal with - or create - exceptional real-world problems. Northerner has three principal characters, Shane, Northerner, and Kate. Shane is a thief, who embraces his evolution into a super-villain. Kate has a reputation as a dirty cop and is bound by Shane to her past. Northerner is the catalyst who confronts both Shane and Kate with the opportunity to change the course of their lives.

Pearls

A young man is forced to confront his past traumas following his first day of work on a logging camp in the 1930s.

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.

Blueberries for Iris

While out blueberry picking in rural Newfoundland, a young woman finds herself mysteriously lost in the company of a stranger.

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.