We are so honoured that Mother’s Skin has been awarded Best Atlantic Short at Atlantic Film Festival and that our lead actress Briar Ainslie has also taken home the Joan Orenstein Award for her Outstanding Performance in the film!
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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, […]
The film will premiere in the Golden Goblet Competition at the A-list festival in June. Johnston will be traveling to Shanghai to present the film in person.
This was happiest moment in the entire process of making and releasing our movie!
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.
Ingrid & the Black Hole will be representing Canada abroad once again at the Canadian Embassy in Paris during this special screening, June 7th! The film still hasn’t technically had it’s World Premiere, so it’s cool it’s already gotten some momentum!
Excerpt taken from CBC Nova Scotia Leah Johnston’s film Ingrid and the Black Hole will be played at the Cannes Film Festival in France. (Paul Palmeter/CBC) Nova Scotia filmmaker’s new project to be highlighted at Cannes Leah Johnston’s film Ingrid and the Black Hole will be played at the Cannes […]
“I was really blown away when I got home by the film community in Nova Scotia, and that’s a big part of why I stayed,” said Johnston.
All of Leah’s shorts were shown back to back in the inaugural Truro Film Festival.
Johnston was just awarded a $35,000 BravoFACT prize to go toward the filming of ‘Ingrid and the Black Hole.’
Another Man won both the Jury’s Choice and Audience Choice Awards for Best Short at Parrsboro Film Festival.
Our movie will be showing in Halifax as part of the CBC Shorts Gala at AFF…
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.
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 […]
I had been staring at these beautiful masks in my mother’s hallway every time I come home, begging her to let me use them. They are quite precious to her, and thus, she didn’t want me taking them down off the wall and using them for my artistic exploits, (which I can sort of understand). Unfortunately for her, I could only be respectful so long […]
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 […]
