Excited to share that Mother’s Skin will be competing at the Oscar-qualifying Edmonton International Film Festival in September! I’ll be traveling there to present the film in person. Can’t wait to share the movie with Edmonton audiences. 🦭 🎥 🍿
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We are pleased to share that Mother’s Skin will play at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in July 2024 as part of the Female Eye Film Festival!
The annual program offers roughly five months of training for writers, directors, producers and editors. The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) has selected 18 filmmakers for its 2023 Norman Jewison Film Program. The program runs about five months and supports emerging to mid-level film and TV sector professionals with workshops, sessions, […]
More exciting news for our film! MOTHER’S SKIN will be screening at Festival du nouveau cinéma – FNC as part of the Compétition Nationale!
We are pleased that Ingrid & the Black Hole is already getting lots of play, screening in official selection at 5 different film festivals in the next two months, starting with a spotlight in the CBC Gala at Atlantic Film Festival, then going on to screen at Festival de Cinema de la Ville Quebec, Edmonton International Film Festival and Charlottetown Film Festival.
After a successful festival run, Some Things Won’t Sleep is now available to stream online on vimeo. Check it out and let us know what you think!
Johnston was just awarded a $35,000 BravoFACT prize to go toward the filming of ‘Ingrid and the Black Hole.’
Our film will have it’s U.S. Premiere in Florida as part of the Love Your Shorts Film Festival
Another Man won both the Jury’s Choice and Audience Choice Awards for Best Short at Parrsboro Film Festival.
Leah Johnston has won a Joy award for her upcoming film, My Younger Older Sister.
August has been an exciting month! I was lucky enough to book two acting gigs…
Wow. It’s been a long time since I shot one of these! I never thought laying in freezing cold mud and water…
Been so long since I shared a conceptual photo with the world, so wanted to share this photo I’ve been holding onto for a while…
Another film acceptance for Another Man! The short will be screening in a segment featuring films from the Atlantic Provinces at the 2013 Atlantic Film Festival, happening in Halifax at Park Lane Cinema, September 16 @ 4:30pm & September 18 @ 10:15pm. For more information or to buy tickets, visit […]
Recently, I was asked to do an interview with the blog Lights n’ Colours about my photography. We talked about how I got into conceptual photography and how I go about executing my pictures […]
This image is very personal to me. The idea here is that in spite of the beauty of the world, many of us will never truly be free to enjoy it because we are trapped- trapped by dogma, trapped by routine, trapped by our inability to escape their own emotions. I often feel that way myself […]
This was shot around the same time as this image and was intended to be a kind of sister image. I wanted to imply a story of a woman whose body is washed ashore after some kind of shipwreck, whose soul then arises and returns to the sea […]
Took this video at my cottage this weekend with the help of my dad and my neighbors, including their daughter Erin who agreed to play the lonely drifter for me. This is sort of an expansion on the idea I had previously created in this photo, but in video version. I’ve been trying to transition into video these past few months, and I’ve been reading a lot and learning a bunch of new programs […]
I was inspired to create this image when I was driving through Pictou, Nova Scotia and I came upon this 1940’s fighter jet mounted in the middle of an intersection. I wanted to create something noir-ish and I think it turned out somewhat in the vein of Sky Captan and the World of Tomorrow, which is cool. It was surprisingly simple to create- thank you to my new green screen!
Laura Ferriera is a relatively new discovery to me. While I stumbled upon her on flickr, she also has a booming audience on both deviantART and facebook, with fans exceeding 4,000. Her work strikes a unique blend of conceptual portraiture and fashion photography, often incorporating fantastical elements akin to fairy-tales or a nightmares. I was blown away by her endlessly impressive portfolio and I am so pleased that she agreed to do this interview amidst what seems to be a very hectic schedule!
One of my biggest inspirations and certainly one of the most interesting artists I’ve come upon on flickr, is photomontage artist Mattijn. If you’ve ever seen his work, you will undoubtedly remember it. He is well known for his extensive surrealist montages. I was absolutely thrilled when he agreed to do a Q&A for my little old blog! I had so many questions, I barely knew where to begin. Read on…
I need to mention her here as she is a huge inspiration to any artist, in particular female artists. Shara Worden, the lead singer and songwriter of My Brightest Diamond, is a one woman phenomena. With a background rooted strongly in opera music, her songs are a refreshing blend of both indie-rock emotionality and classical sensibility, with soaring vocals that often draw comparison to the likes of Jeff Buckley and Antony and the Johnsons.