Across the Line
Out of the approximately 600 players in the National Hockey League, thirty are Black. Mattie Slaughter, a hockey phenom from the rural Black community of North Preston, wants to make it thirty-one. To reach his goal, Mattie needs to keep his nose clean and avoid trouble. Hard to do though, when you go to a school where racism taints every interaction, your older brother is a hustler and you’re crushing on a girl who’s already hooked up.
Spinster
It’s the story of a woman who, after being unceremoniously dumped on her 39th birthday, faces her fear of becoming a pathetic, lonely spinster.
Black Cop
A black police officer is pushed to the edge, taking out his frustrations on the privileged community he's sworn to protect.
Bone Cage
Jamie (Taylor Olson) works a wood processor, clear-cutting for pulp in small-town Nova Scotia. At the end of each shift, he walks through the destruction he has created looking for injured animals and rescues those he can. Adapted from a play by Nova Scotian author Catherine Banks, Bone Cage is an impressive first feature from Halifax actor/filmmaker Taylor Olson that sensitively excavates the tragedy of how young people in rural communities, employed in the destruction of their environment, treat the people they love at the end of their shift.
Dawn, Her Dad & the Tractor
Dawn returns home to Nova Scotia to mourn the death of her mother and repair the estrangement with her father, John Andrew. An ancient tractor becomes the focus for the mechanically-minded Dawn, but her father’s long-simmering resentments heighten tensions. Watching his daughter work to restore the tractor, he realises that reclaiming this relationship depends on his own coming out: supporting Dawn publicly and fighting malicious small-town transphobia.
Tin Can
As the world faces a deadly plague, humanity's hope for a cure lies with a scientist who awakens imprisoned in a metal chamber. She desperately works to escape her confined cell to save the last of humanity.
Halloween Party
A college student unwittingly releases terrifying entities from her school's past via a Halloween-themed computer meme.
Chris Watts: Confessions of a Killer
When Chris Watts stoically yet smirkingly pleaded to television cameras for the safe return of his missing pregnant wife Shanann and their two young daughters, dark secrets loomed just beneath the surface.
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Director
Taylor Olson
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Jarvis
Stephan James
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Mattie Slaughter
Denis Theriault
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Todd
David Rossetti
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Alex
Amy Groening
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Bride
Andrew Bush
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Additional Voices
Reid Price
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Danny
Anna Hopkins
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Fret / Gold
Michael Ironside
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Wayne
Simon Sinn
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Andy on Plane
Jeremy Akerman
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Dr. Arthur Macail
Michael Nankin
Director
Ashley Williams
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Shanann Watts
Brooke Smith
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Tammy Lee
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