Aaron Kim Johnston

Heart Land

Aaron Kim Johnston, Norma Bailey

HEART LAND takes viewers from a raging white-water kayaking ride and the thundering heat of a chuckwagon race, to swooping over a field of magnificent sunflowers and the magic of a solar eclipse. There are landscapes of unparalleled beauty, the exquisite grace of Evelyn Hart and Andre Lewis dancing Norbert Vesak's award winning pas-de-deux, "Belong", a hilarious animated sequence by Richard Condie, and touching images, past and present, of the people who have dared to carve out a new life against a vast, and sometimes unforgiving landscape.

For Better or For Worse: The Bestest Present

Sebastian Grunstra

Billy Van, Abby Hagyard

The Patterson family learns the true meaning of Christmas when Lizzie loses her stuffed bunny.

The Last Winter

Aaron Kim Johnston

Gerard Parkes, Alec McClure

Tells the story of a young man's struggle to keep his world from changing. Placed in the rural setting of the mid 1950s.

The Crown Prince

Aaron Kim Johnston

Christian Molgat, Andrew Bednarski

Frank Robinson abuses his wife verbally and batters her physically, with frightening consequences not only for her, but also for their sons, Billy and Freddy.

For the Moment

Aaron Kim Johnston

Russell Crowe, Christianne Hirt

This Canadian film presents and old-fashioned war time romance. It is set during 1942 in Manitoba and traces the doomed affair between a young farmer's wife (Christianne Hirt) whose husband is fighting abroad and a dashing Australian pilot (Russell Crowe). The pilot has come to train in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan of Canada. When the pilot, Lachlan, is not training, he is surreptitiously wooing Lill, the farmer's wife. At the other end of town, Betsy (Wanda Cannon) who supports her two kids by bootlegging, charges for her services. She gets involved with Zeek (Scott Kraft), an American flight instructor.

Mistress Madeleine

Aaron Kim Johnston

Mireille Deyglun, Neil Munro

Part of the Daughters of the Country series, this film, set in the 1850s, unfolds against the backdrop of the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly of the fur trade. In protest, some Métis engage in trade with the Americans. Madeleine, the Métis common-law wife of a Hudson's Bay Company clerk, is torn between loyalty to her husband and loyalty to her brother, a freetrader. Even more shattering, a change in company policy destroys Madeleine's happy and secure life, forcing her to re-evaluate her identity.