Arts, Culture & Community in Canada's Ocean Playground
“Kids These Days,” curated by Zoe Chan and running at the MSVU Art Gallery until March 16th, is a resonant and provocative look at the timelessness of youth culture that disrupts expectations and challenges its audience.
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The Halifax Weather Girls cheer squad performs during a second-half time out at the NBL game between the Saint John Mill Rats and the hometown Halifax Hurricanes on January 28th at the Scotiabank Centre.
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A cold Thursday night in late January saw an explosion of warmth at the annual Winter Meeting of the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative. With the film industry in Nova Scotia confronting the catastrophic effects of changes in provincial government film funding policy, anyone and everyone interested in film scene should consider getting involved with AFCOOP. Whether you’re a recent film school graduate, or a grizzled veteran, AFCOOP offers equipment rentals, training programs, screenings and an indie film festival, along with a place for advice and sympathy in a rapidly changing motion picture milieu.
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The decision to cut the film tax credit, as well as FCINS and the equity investment and development loan programs, in April 2015 was bad policy-making at its worst, particularly given that it was made without consultation and without real, objective and transparent analysis.
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The Dalhousie Art Gallery marks African Heritage Month in February with a screening series of first films by black filmmakers. Curated by Ron Foley Macdonald, the screenings take place on Tuesday’s at 5 pm in the art gallery in the Rebecca Cohn building. Admission is free.
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The Corridor is now available on Shudder, a sort of “Netflix for Horror”. The website Slashfilm just curated 10 Double Features out of Shudder’s roster, and included on the list was the Nova Scotia indie flick, which is equal parts horror, science fiction, and psychological thriller. Written by Josh MacDonald, directed by Evan Kelly, and starring Stephen Chambers, James Gilbert, Glen Mathews, and David Patrick Flemming, the film was a smash at the 2011 Atlantic Film Festival, and garnered critical acclaim as it made its way around the festival circuit. Ain’t It Cool News summed up the general consensus at the time in its review when it called The Corridor “one of the most terrifying new films of the year.”
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Nova Scotia MLA Dave Wilson, who is in the midst of a campaign for the leadership of the provincial New Democratic Party, has issued a very personal open letter to workers in Nova Scotia’s film and television industry, which has been decimated in the nine months since the April 2015 budget of the Liberal government of Stephen McNeil.
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I attended a great kick-off night to this year’s Winter / Spring film screening series at the Dalhousie Art Gallery, curated by film expert extraordinaire Ron Foley Macdonald. The current series is The Art of Film Noir II, and it’s set to build on a similar series held last year. It started off with a bang as we all enjoyed This Gun For Hire, an early noir classic from 1942 featuring the great Alan Ladd (in a riveting performance that made him a star) and the wonderful Veronica Lake, two of my favourite actors from the golden age of cinema.
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