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, […]
Filmmaker Leah Johnston traveled to China for the Shanghai International Film Festival, where her latest short film Mother’s Skin will have its international premiere. SHANGHAI, CHINA – Filmmaker Leah Johnston traveled over 10,000 kilometres from her home in Halifax to Shanghai, China. While she’s certainly having plenty of fun in […]
At the National Screen Institute, we’re blessed to see firsthand the difference training makes in the lives of storytellers. On our website throughout December we’re sharing impact stories from many of our talented alumni who’ve told us how NSI training transformed their lives and careers. Today’s featured alumna is writer/director […]
Writer/Director Leah Johnston had a blast presenting Ingrid & the Black Hole last night at Reel Shorts Film Festival in Grand Prairie. Next, it screens as part of the Canada Day celebrations in Ottawa at the National Arts Centre -then in Italy at Shorts International Film Festival! And after that, […]
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!
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…
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 […]
Principle photography on Leah’s second short film, ‘Some Things Won’t Sleep’ has just wrapped after shooting October…
Leah’s screenplay for her upcoming short film, ‘Some Things Won’t Sleep’, was chosen as the annual awards sponsor by The Brian Linehan Foundation. Every year, four filmmaking teams from across Canada are selected into the National Screen Institute Drama Prize Program, and of those teams, one is selected for sponsorship […]