Leah’s next short, Creature HE, is moving into development phase of the AFCOOP FILM 5 program
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Leah’s film Some Things Won’t Sleep took home the prize for Best Horror
All of Leah’s shorts were shown back to back in the inaugural Truro Film Festival.
We are very excited to announce that My Younger Older Sister will be showing at Atlantic Film Festival this September.
After a 3 day shoot, we have picture wrapped Bravofact short, Ingrid and the Black Hole!
Leah nominated at Yorkton Film Festival for her work on Some Things Won’t Sleep
SOME THINGS WON’T SLEEP wins a Special Jury Prize at Worldfest Houston!
Some Things Won’t Sleep took home the award for Best Production Design at the Canadian Film Fest
Johnston was just awarded a $35,000 BravoFACT prize to go toward the filming of ‘Ingrid and the Black Hole.’
Congratulations to the cast and crew of Some Things Won’t Sleep. The film will screen at Worldfest Houston the beginning of April!
We are so excited to be having the Toronto premiere of ‘Some Things Won’t Sleep‘ at Canadian Film Fest at the end of March!
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.
Some Things Won’t Sleep will be screening next as part of The Island Media Arts Fest in P.E.I. on Oct. 24th…
Three NSI Drama Prize films; 12 alumni films at 2014 Atlantic Film Festival taken from original article written by National Screen Institute –> NSI Drama Prize films Some Things Won’t Sleep by writer/director Leah Johnston and producer André Pettigrew, When Fish Fly by writer/director Lisa Rose Snow and producer Lora Campbell, and When you Sleep by writer/director […]
August has been an exciting month! I was lucky enough to book two acting gigs…
Our movie will be showing in Halifax as part of the CBC Shorts Gala at AFF…
In celebration of our upcoming premiere at Montreal World Film Fest this month, we’ve released the trailer…
We are so pleased to finally announce that Some Things Won’t Sleep will be premiering next month at the Montreal World Film Festival as part of the Focus on World Cinema program. The festival runs from August 21st- September 1st, and we hope to be there promoting for it’s premiere on the weekend of August […]
Wow. It’s been a long time since I shot one of these! I never thought laying in freezing cold mud and water…
IT IS DONE! Fini!! Terminado! Two months behind schedule…. but we finally finished the film!!! What happened to…
You heard it right, film funders! We are moving into the final stages of post-production with our film. After a brief but much needed Christmas break, we came back full-force in the new year, with our editor, Shawn Beckwith and I moving into picture-lock less than a week ago. For […]
Leah is pleased to now be a member of the SAG/AFTRA and ACTRA! Check out her acting reel, now up to date with…
Dear Supporters of our short film, Some Things Won’t Sleep: Well, it’s officially been two weeks since shooting, so I think it’s high time I give you all an update about the project. After the shoot, while André was busy tying up loose ends- returning equipment, rental trucks, paying bills- […]
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…
Principle photography on Leah’s second short film, ‘Some Things Won’t Sleep’ has just wrapped after shooting October…
After a 30 days sprint, Leah’s short film, Some Things Won’t Sleep, has reached and surpassed it’s Indiegogo funding goal.
A lovely article about Leah’s upcoming short film, Some Things Won’t Sleep, in the news. Click the image below to read the full article.
3rd Film Festival acceptance for Leah’s first short film, ANOTHER MAN! It will be screening at St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival on October 23rd at 7pm! For more information or to get tickets, please click here. 🙂