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An arthritic Nova Scotia woman works as a housekeeper while she hones her skills as an artist and eventually becomes a beloved figure in the community.

After being released from prison, Billy Skinner returns to his low-income neighbourhood feeling like the area has changed dramatically, and what was once a predominantly white neighbourhood is now mostly occupied by refugee families.

On the eve of the biggest dirt bike competition of the year, underdog and utterly unique human Donnie Dumphy looses the love of his life, runs into a crazy cast of characters and takes us on a tour of the real St. John's, Newfoundland.

A depressed man learns that fortune comes in many forms, and at any moment it can slam into you like a speeding car. Or in this case, an SUV.

Kathy is a portrait of the most fascinating creature of all: the adult in training, the object of everyone's first affection, the teenage girl.

The quest to uncover the identity of a superhero living in St. John's, Newfoundland continues. Moera: Fact or Fantasy? is a mockumentary featuring quirky characters who have been touched by recent acts of heroism - or are skeptical about their claims.

Gerald S. Doyle was one of the first collectors of Newfoundland folk songs. He was also an avid cinematographer who left a collection of 12 hours of colour film, shot in outport Newfoundland and Labrador in the 1930's, 40's, and 50's.

When a revolutionary film about medicine and the body is rediscovered after 50 years in an archival vault, it leads to its uncredited maker, Robert Cordier, still working in Paris at 82. He has a career of collaborations with such legendary figures as James Baldwin, Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, Jean Genet and Salvador Dalí. As Cordier helps to revive the original film, the great storyteller unmasks the film as a remarkable avant-garde creation for the masses, a strategic cross-over with spectacular results.

A satirical television series about a man named Paul Moth who hosts "Town Beat!", a 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 known for its once great arts college and its extra maximum security prison. Paul Moth is urbane, witty and opinionated through personable and diplomatic as befitting a host. Paul is "hip but humbled", a bruised veteran of a checkered career in the entertainment industry that bottomed out in substance abuse and trouble with the law. Paul's rocky road to recovery (recounted in his published memoir of the same name) has been paved with market media jobs, "Town Beat!" being the latest.

Directed by Michael Ostroff (Pegi Nicol: Something Dancing About Her (2004)) and produced by Mary Sexton (Gemini Award Winning Tommy... A Family Portrait (2001)), and Heather Eustace, To Think Like a Composer is a joyful and exuberant introduction to the world of Canadian composer, conductor, educator and renaissance man Stephen Hatfield. A documentary that reveals the creative collaborative excitement and tension as Hatfield and Susan Knight and Shallaway Youth Chorus of St. John's produce an opera performed by youth for adults. An opera based on the novel Ann and Seamus by Kevin Major. There are no patronizing platitudes in Hatfield's work. The opera deals with sadness, heartbreak, and the joy of existence - the Newfoundland ethos - as interpreted in a story of shipwreck, survival, and love on the Isle Aux Morts off the southwest coast of Newfoundland in 1828.

A film about Toronto Dance Theatre's acclaimed artistic director, Christopher House. An examination of the process and practice of the modern dance maestro.

The first day of the Battle of the Somme sent hundreds of Newfoundland's famed Blue Puttees straight into the maw of machine gun fire that wiped out most of the regiment. Of more than 800 soldiers who went over the top that day, just 68 answered roll call the next morning. It was just one of the most horrific First World War campaigns that still haunt Canada's easternmost province. When the Boys Came Home asks the question: what happened to those young men who survived such carnage?

Me, Mom and Covid: A Year Later is a love letter to Sara Sexton, a woman known for her compassion who died at the age of 97 in February 2020.

The story of how a handful of soldiers from the Newfoundland Regiment hold off nearly three hundred German attackers to protect the town of Monchy-le-Preux (Newfoundland).