NB Filmmakers Co-op

A car load of four young people - two guys and two girls - were driving home from a dance on a dark and stormy Halloween night in 1930. They were on a dark road going through the woods between the small towns of Richibucto and Rexton on New Brunswick’s East Coast, when they had a bizarre close encounter with a ghost…

Blowies tells the story of three men who are in training to compete in a synchronized snow blowing competition.

Where do we go when we fall asleep?

A parody of the 1975 Canadian documentary "The Man Who Skied Down Everest" details the preparation for, assault upon and subsequent descent of Citadel Hill in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Echoes in the Rink: The Willie O'Ree Story is a documentary on the triumphal life story of the first Black player in the National Hockey League. Like Jackie Robinson in professional baseball, O'Ree faced many obstacles to achieving his dream; but unlike Robinson, his achievement would go unnoticed for forty years.

Bloodcurdling screeches. Objects moving on their own. Rancid smells coming from your air ducts. These signs can only mean one of two things: radon or ghosts. Both have the same solution: Spirit Phantom Exorcizing Removal Materials – SPERM for short. In under five (5) minutes, renowned ghost hunter and pardoned tax evader Hugh Jass demonstrates his most legal invention yet. This product can effectively enslave ghosts and impregnate fertile calves. Waste no time, if you’re haunted or not – everyone must try his SPERM!

"When Voices Rise..." tells the important, but little-known story of dismantling segregation in the polite society that was Bermuda in the 1950s. Working in secret, the Progressive Group organized the 1959 Theatre Boycott to end segregation in movie theatres in Hamilton. Context is provided by those who protested against segregation and the limited franchise earlier in Bermuda by authoring a "Secret Document" that analyzed the social problems of the island. The film also features a rare interview conducted in London, England with Kingsley Tweed-a powerful, public figure during the boycott that changed the island forever. -- Chris Campbell

A drama of political awakenings which connects activism in Apartheid South Africa to Canada in the 1990s.

An elderly Caribbean man moves to Eastern Canada but struggles with isolation and addiction when he gets there.

A narrator reads out an anti-gay marriage tirade given by Canadian Conservative MP Elsie Wayne on 8 May 2003, followed by a Walt Whitman poem as the camera pans over the bodies of two men embracing.

A Parable in Black and White examines the nature and breadth of prejudice as seen through the eyes of two hobos, one black and the other white. What happens while they are out on a walk one day leads to an understanding that despite our differences, we are all human.

In 1817, at age 25, Anthony Flower left London, England on one of his father’s trading ships bound for Canada. He would never return to claim his inheritance. Using Anthony Flower’s art, archival material and interviews with researchers, historians, curators and the people of Queens County, New Brunswick, the mystery of his life is revealed.