Kent Martin

In Bed with an Elephant

Kent Martin

James Laxer

This feature documentary provides a gripping retrospective of United States-Canada relationships through a study of successive presidents and prime ministers. Using archival film footage, it demonstrates that Canadian prime ministers, from John A. Macdonald down, all began their tenures by making overtures to their American counterparts. Attitudes and outcomes have varied widely. The almost comic antipathy between Kennedy and Diefenbaker, for instance, is as palpable here as is the folksy camaraderie of Reagan and Mulroney.

Black Girl

Ossie Davis

Leslie Uggams, Claudia McNeil

An aspiring dancer and her two wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.

Wi'kupaltimk: Feast of Forgiveness

Kent Martin, Salina Kemp

Salina Kemp, a Masters student, mother and Mi'kmaw from the Millbrook First Nation, takes us on a journey through all aspects of the 'food security' issue as it affects Indigenous People - both historically and in the present.

A Scattering of Stars

Kent Martin

Chris Norman

In a part of the world noted for its great musicians Chris Norman is among the true masters – a virtuoso of the flute whether he is playing traditional tunes, his own compositions or baroque music by Vivaldi and Bach. But that’s not all. Chris founded the week long Boxwood Festival and Workshops. In this film we get to know Chris and his fellow musicians and teachers. Interwoven are amazing performances by a “scattering of stars”.

Wayne's Deer

Kent Martin

Respected documentarian Kent Martin returns to the Festival with Wayne’s Deer, a portrait of Wayne Bruhm, amateur naturalist and hunter. Wayne’s ancestors first settled along the LaHave River, Nova Scotia in 1723, and he has spent hours quietly hidden in these woods watching deer movements for decades. Beforehand he takes such precautions as using his own time tested formula made from boiled hakmatack needles and other substances to mask his scent. Indeed Wayne probably knows more about deer than most biologists with PhD’s. And every Fall he shoots one deer for meat. Wayne’s Deer was patiently shot over four seasons and tells a refreshingly honest story of living with nature.

Nakatuenita – Respect

Kent Martin

Nakatuenita – Respect examines an extraordinary sweep of history and cultural change of the Innu of Labrador from their “settlement” in the 1960s to the present day. The Innu Nation were among the last nomadic people in North America, with a vast territory called Nitassinan in Labrador. Pressured by the Church and government they were settled into communities. Then the Churchill Falls Hydro Project flooded vast areas of their land without permission. Now the Innu are taking back control of their governance and their resources.