This year's FIN Atlantic International Film Festival highlights a new wave of homegrown Nova Scotia talent. | CBCArts
But it's not just the funding that's changed. This new class of directors offer a fresh vision of what a set can feel like., each day's shoot began with a group huddle where a fact from local Indigenous history was shared, to connect to the land. The film centres on a group of childhood friends grappling with the realization that one of their own is an abuser.
"Because the piece is quite heavy, I knew that we were going to need as much support as possible — not just me, but also our actors, also our crew. We had an intimacy coordinator who talked about how to take care of ourselves. But I was like, 'It's not just self-care. It's also aftercare,'" the filmmaker explains.
It feels like a lane-widening of the toe-path that earlier Halifax directors like Thom Fitzgerald and Andrea Dorfman first trailblazed in a province that has often focused on white, straight, cis male run-sets, which begot many movies focusing on white, straight, cis male stories.
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