Amy Groening
2021Punch Out
Matthew Kennedy
Dylan Gyles, Adam Brooks
What if the principal in The Breakfast Club had punched Bender in the face instead of trying to provoke Bender to punch him? What if you could smash a bottle across Ferris Bueller’s face? What if Otto from Alex Cox’s Repo Man was your boyfriend? If any of these sound like a dream come true, Punch Out is the film for you. This coming-of-age story concerns the growth of nine separate characters over the course of three days. John Hughes eat your heart out you piece of shit.
Punch Out
Hopeless Romantic
Megan Wennberg, Ruth Lawrence
Lynda Boyd, Hugh Thompson
Everyone has a different story to tell, especially when it comes to relationships. Lynda Boyd stars as Anna, a recently widowed cardiologist facing romantic challenges. While attending a wedding, Anna discovers she is not alone and bonds with six other women as they each share their unique stories of navigating the complex world of relationships. This anthology film weaves through the love lives of these women, charting their ups and downs in romance and rejection.
Hopeless Romantic
Cool Guys
Astron Smithee
Conor Sweeney, Matthew Kennedy
What happens when two lonely losers and one wild party animal hit the beach for some hot fun in the summer sun? Can they learn to be cool or is cool something you're born with? You'll find out in this hilarious summer beach comedy from Astron-6 that holds its own against the other great beach comedies of years gone by, such as Weekend at Bernie's, Jacob's Ladder, and Hardbodies.
Cool Guys
The Secret Ingredient
Tibor Takács
Erin Cahill, Брендан Джеймс Пенни
Small-town baker, Kelly, gets a big surprise when she is invited to compete on a Valentine's Day baking show in New York City - and an even bigger surprise when she runs into her ex-fiance.
The Secret Ingredient
Goon
Michael Dowse
Seann William Scott, Marc-André Grondin
Doug Glatt, a slacker who discovers he has a talent for brawling, is approached by a minor league hockey coach and invited to join the team as the "muscle." Despite the fact that Glatt can't skate, his best friend, Pat, convinces him to give it a shot, and Glatt becomes a hero to the team and their fans, until the league's reigning goon becomes threatened by Glatt's success and decides to even the score.
Goon
Project Christmas Wish
Jeff Beesley
Travis Van Winkle, Amanda Schull
For years Lucy has played Santa to her small town’s community by making their holiday wishes come true. But when Lucy grants a little girl’s wish for a Christmas like she used to have with her mom, she unexpectedly finds her own wishes coming true in life and love.
Project Christmas Wish
Dawn, her Dad & the Tractor
Shelley Thompson
Robb Wells, Maya Henry
Dawn returns home to Nova Scotia to mourn the death of her mother and repair the estrangement with her father, John Andrew. An ancient tractor becomes the focus for the mechanically-minded Dawn, but her father’s long-simmering resentments heighten tensions. Watching his daughter work to restore the tractor, he realises that reclaiming this relationship depends on his own coming out: supporting Dawn publicly and fighting malicious small-town transphobia.
Dawn, Her Dad & The Tractor
Francesca Quinn, PI
Anthony C. Metchie
Teryl Rothery, Dylan Bruce
When private investigator Francesca “Frankie” Quinn’s fiancé is murdered, his sister hires her to find the killer. Frankie must work with Wyn, the local detective assigned to the case…who also happens to be her ex. As the one-time couple joins forces to unravel a serpentine plot, the investigation strikes at their hearts.
Francesca Quinn, PI
A House on Fire
Shamim Sarif
Stephanie March, Shaun Benson
A House on Fire follows brilliant doctor and mother Deborah Green (Stephanie March) who had the epitome of a picture-perfect life with two children, an adoring husband (Shaun Benson) and a beautiful house in an opulent neighborhood. But behind the curtain is a rocky marriage that includes Deb’s difficult bedside manner, her inability to get along with other doctors and an abuse of pills and alcohol, major envy of her husband’s successful medical career and his easy social manner, that takes a terrible turn and leaves her family and marriage in ruin.
A House on Fire
The Void
Steven Kostanski, Jeremy Gillespie
Aaron Poole, Kathleen Munroe
In the middle of a routine patrol, officer Daniel Carter happens upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch of road. He rushes the young man to a nearby rural hospital staffed by a skeleton crew, only to discover that patients and personnel are transforming into something inhuman. As the horror intensifies, Carter leads the other survivors on a hellish voyage into the subterranean depths of the hospital in a desperate bid to end the nightmare before it's too late.
The Void
Father's Day
Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy
Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy
Ahab, a man obsessed with exacting a brutal, violent revenge on the man who murdered his dad, joins John, an eager priest, and Twink, a hot-headed street hustler, on an epic quest to find and defeat this mythical monster known as Chris Fuchman AKA The Father's Day Killer.
Father's Day
Bone Cage
Taylor Olson
Taylor Olson, Amy Groening
Jamie (Taylor Olson) works a wood processor, clear-cutting for pulp in small-town Nova Scotia. At the end of each shift, he walks through the destruction he has created looking for injured animals and rescues those he can. Adapted from a play by Nova Scotian author Catherine Banks, Bone Cage is an impressive first feature from Halifax actor/filmmaker Taylor Olson that sensitively excavates the tragedy of how young people in rural communities, employed in the destruction of their environment, treat the people they love at the end of their shift.
Bone Cage
