A Showcase of Atlantic Canadian Shorts
Watch Season 10 on CBC Gem and CBC TV
REEL EAST COAST (REC) is a television series that showcases the highest quality short films from across Atlantic Canada. Every season, over four episodes audiences receive a warm and welcoming East Coast invitation to an incredible range of films and filmmakers. Down-home hospitality combined with dedicated talent, this is what REEL EAST COAST is all about.
Season 10
Episode 1
May 8
Features an Interview with Olivia King (The Kitchen Sink)
EVELYN
Entering into the world of wise and wry Evelyn Christopher offers a window into what we have lost with all of our rushing around. Evelyn Christopher is 94 years old and still grows enough food to give surplus away to neighbours.
Director: Millefiore Clarkes
Province: Prince Edward Island
FATHER ARCHIE
The filmmaker’s grandfather narrates a tale of old Father Archie, set to decomposing 16mm of the local parish, in this archaeological work from the experimental postmemory of Todd Fraser
Director: Todd Fraser
Province: New Brunswick
WHAT GOOD CANADIANS DO
Featuring a poem written and performed by Mi’kmaw writer Rebecca Thomas, brought to life through the illustrations of Indigenous artist Phyllis Grant, and animated by Andrea Dorfman.
Director: Stephanie Joline
Province: Nova Scotia
THE KITCHEN SINK
A traditional Maritime image: three generations of P.E.I. women wash dishes after holiday dinners. Their after-dinner conversations become revealing when one of their own begins his transition.
Director: Olivia King
Province: Nova Scotia
Episode 2
May 15
Features an Interview with Alexa Jane Jerrett (Bedlamer)
ME AND MY TEETH
A witty and poetic short on the filmmaker’s journey through their mental—and dental—health, told through playful animations coupled with intimate tableaus of Quon’s day-to-day life.
Director: Anna Louise Quon
Province: Nova Scotia
THE MIST (LA BRUME)
From the album Mouvance, La Brume combines the text of Georgette LeBlanc, the voice of Suzie LeBlanc, and the music of Jérôme Blais, unveiling a world of silence and mystery where every shadow holds a story…
Director: Jerome Luc Paulin
Province: New Brunswick
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.
Director: Alexa Jane Jerrett
Province: Newfoundland
Episode 3
May 22
Features an Interview with Teresa Kuo (Where My Branches Stem)
PEARLS
In Newfoundland filmmaker Mike Simms' gritty thriller, a young man is forced to confront his past traumas following his first day of work on a logging camp in the 1930s.
Director: Mike Simms
Province: Newfoundland
EYE PIECE
After their friend and roommate abruptly moves out, microbiology student Darcy becomes mesmerized by a telescope left behind. Moving between details too small to see and a cosmos too large to understand, an absence still remains. They must greet it on their own terms.
Director: Kate Solar
Province: Nova Scotia
WHERE MY BRANCHES STEM
The story of a young Chinese woman who is tired from her nine to five work life in the big city prompting her to move back home with her grandfather.
Director: Teresa Kuo
Province: Prince Edward Island
Episode 4
May 29
Features an Interview with Tyler Burr (Carved from Stone)
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 number of simultaneous incidents.
Director: Stacy Gardner
Province: Newfoundland
PERMIT GARDEN
A dreamlike parable about immigration, Permit Garden follows a nameless child as they toil to gain exit from the Garden. But as time goes on, they wonder if escape is even possible.
Director: Jenny Yujia Shi
Province: Nova Scotia
YOU MOVE ME (TU ME MOUVES)
From the album Mouvance, Tu me mouves combines the text of Sarah Marylou Brideau, the voice of Suzie LeBlanc, and the music of Jérôme Blais, taking us on a journey to the elusive Isle of Caraquet in New Brunswick
Director: Stéphane Lévesque
Province: New Brunswick
CARVED FROM STONE
Brooke Carten has been rock climbing for long enough that it’s hard to imagine who she’d be without it. How has climbing shaped the person she’s become?
Director: Tyler Burr
Province: New Brunswick