The Madones (2024)

• Written and directed by Barrie Dunn

The Madones are three sisters – Gladys, Stella and Rose Madone. Once a successful musical trio, they have since fallen into obscurity. As the story opens, Rose (Lucy DeCoutere), suffering from schizophrenia, is having a psychotic episode. Stella (Tara Doyle), who has been Rose's caregiver for years, is at her wit's end. Rose’s son, Maurice (T. Thomason) refuses to let his mother live with him. He has a girlfriend, Rita (Aria Publicover) and his own life to worry about. In the chaos, Stella's ex-boyfriend, Adonis Aucoin (Mark A. Owen), shows up at her door having just been released from prison. He's brought two others with him – his ex-cellmate Spencer ‘Dolls’ Dollimont (Bryden MacDonald), and Wayne (Hans Boggild), a banker, whom they've kidnapped as part of his get-rich quick scheme. When Gladys (Lenore Zann) arrives after 15 years of estrangement with the idea of a Madones’ reunion, a lifetime of resentment bursts forth in the film's explosive climax.

Stage Mother (2020)

• Written by Brad Hennig and Directed by Thom Fitzgerald

Filmed in Halifax, NS, as San Francisco

Maybelline, a conservative Southern Baptist church choir director, inherits her late son Rickey's San Francisco gay club. She touches the lives of many while coming to know and love her son for who he was, through the friends who loved him most.

"A heartfelt story of acceptance and family, in a world where being different shouldn't be judged, but celebrated."

"Poignant, funny, eccentric, and uplifting."

Winner of Outshine Film Festival's Audience Award, Best Feature Film -Thom Fitzgerald.

The Secret Order (2022)

• Written and directed by Phil Comeau

Phil Comeau shines a spotlight on the Ordre de Jacques-Cartier, a powerful secret society that operated from 1926 to 1965, infiltrating every sector of Canadian society and forging the fate of French-language communities. Through never-before-heard testimony from former members of the Order, along with historically accurate dramatic reconstructions, this film paints a gripping portrait of the social and political struggles of Canadian francophone-minority communities.

Femmes Capitaines (Women Captains) (2022)

• Written and directed by Phil Comeau

Marilyn fishes lobster with her father and dreams of becoming a captain herself. She meets other determined women captains who encourage her, but when her husband suddenly dies in an accident, she becomes a single mother and questions her dream.

The King Tide (2023)

• Written by KC Coughlin, Ryan Grassby and Albert Shin

• Directed by Christian Sparkes

After the mayor of an idyllic island village discovers a child with mysterious powers awash on their shores, the once peaceful community devolves into civil war, torn over the belief that the child is the next saviour.

Sistema Revolution (2012)

• Directed by Greg Hemmings (Hemmings House Pictures)

• Written by Greg Hemmings and Jennifer Power Scott

• Produced by Stephen Foster and Matthew Webber

Everyday after school, half a million Venezuelan children receive the gift of music education for free. Not only is this program turning out world class musicians from the barrios of Caracas, it is producing world class citizens. In June 2009, Ken McLeod and some members of the New Brunswick Youth Orchestra Board visited Caracas to observe the program and bring it to New Brunswick.

40 Years of Ship's Company Theatre (2024)

[ a documentary work in progress ]

• Director/Videographer/Editor - Zach Faye

• Co-Director/Head of Research - Rena Kossatz

• Producer - Laura Vingoe-Cram, SCT

A loving look at 40 memorable years of inspiration, collaboration, and artistic creation at Parrsboro's Ship's Company Theatre, with the people and the stories that have buoyed its remarkable voyage. 

What (a) Wonderful World? (2023)

• Neophyte Videographers in conjunction with Membertou Heritage Park, Delmore Buddy Day Learning Institute and Empowerful Productions

Last year a group of diverse neophyte filmmakers came together to create a documentary. They learned “how to outsmart their smartphones", along with the guidance of experienced filmmakers from Empowerful Productions. These novice videographers sought out thinkers in the community to discuss systemic racism. They called the documentary “What (a) Wonderful World?”

Inspired by Louis Armstrong’s song “What a Wonderful World” this documentary not only helps us all understand systemic racism, but explores solutions that will benefit us all.

Note: The Directors of this film are all of the folks pictured on the poster plus a few more :)

Songs of Unama’ki (2023)

• Directed by Dawn Wells in collaboration with Jeff Miller

Unama’ki is the Mi’kmaq word for Cape Breton Island, or “Land of Fog”, home of the Mi’kmaq people. Over the centuries, many of the Mi’kmaq customs and traditions here have been lost. Now in a race against time to revive their dying language and culture, the Mi'kmaq of Unama'ki are turning to the musical traditions of their ancestors.

The Last Repair Shop (2023)

• Directed by Kris Bowers and Ben Proudfoot

In a nondescript warehouse in the heart of Los Angeles, a dwindling handful of devoted craftspeople maintain over 80,000 student musical instruments, the largest remaining workshop in America of its kind. Meet four unforgettable characters whose broken-and-repaired lives have been dedicated to bringing so much more than music to the schoolchildren of the recording capital of the world.