REC S9 AIRING ON CBC TV
& STREAMING ON CBC GEM NOW!
REEL EAST COAST (REC) is a television series that showcases the highest quality short films from across Atlantic Canada. Every season, over four episodes audiences receive a warm and welcoming East Coast invitation to an incredible range of films and filmmakers. Down-home hospitality combined with dedicated talent, this is what REEL EAST COAST is all about.
Hosted by Atlantic Canadian actor and radio host, Jeff Douglas (CBC’s Mainstreet), the ninth season premieres on CBC TV on Monday, March 4th at 12:00AM, followed by the next three Mondays at midnight as well. All four episodes will also be available to stream on CBC Gem free as of the March 4th premiere (gem.cbc.ca).
REEL EAST COAST SEASON 9 EPISODES
EPISODE 1 - MARCH 4
TITLE: MISS CAMPBELL: INUK TEACHER
RUN TIME: 15:00
DIRECTOR: Heather Campbell
SYNOPSIS: Part oral history and part visual poem, MISS CAMPBELL: INUK TEACHER is the
story of Evelyn Campbell, a trailblazer for an Inuit-led educational system in the
small community of Rigolet, Labrador.
TITLE: MICKEY
RUN TIME: 5:18
DIRECTOR: Stevey Hunter
SYNOPSIS: Mickey isn’t one to share their feelings. But after a winter-break fling,
everything changes. Will they work up the courage to express how they really feel?
TITLE: HUM
RUN TIME: 7:10
DIRECTOR: Rebecca Tremblay
SYNOPSIS: When grieving mother Vera takes a walk into the woods, painful memories
of her young daughter’s passing begin to surface. As Vera struggles to stay afloat
emotionally, an unexpected finding brings her closer to her little girl.
TITLE: ESCAPE THE USUAL
RUN TIME: 14:10
DIRECTOR: Colby Conrad
SYNOPSIS: ESCAPE THE USUAL follows a day in the life of three teenage boys during the
spring of 2002 in a small fishing village along the south shore of Nova Scotia.
EPISODE 2 - MARCH 11
TITLE: HEBRON RELOCATION
RUN TIME: 15:00
DIRECTOR: Holly Andersen
SYNOPSIS: In HEBRON RELOCATION, Holly Andersen explores what makes a place a home
as she learns more about her community’s connection to generations of displaced
northern Labrador Inuit.
TITLE: WOLF
RUN TIME: 8:37
DIRECTOR: Kathleen Dorian
SYNOPSIS: WOLF is a fragmented depiction of the jagged edges and soft places in
new parenthood, motherhood and breastfeeding.
TITLE: BHA LAD LÀN SGEULACHDAN
RUN TIME: 5:57
DIRECTOR: Todd Fraser
SYNOPSIS: For Willie Francis Fraser, dance is inherited by way of dreams. Shot entirely
in Gaelic by his grandson, director Todd Fraser, BHA LAD LÀN SGEULACHDAN is a tender
reflection on Gaelic storytelling and dance, the latter of which Willie Francis learns
under stance circumstances as a youth in Nova Scotia.
TITLE: STARRY-EYED
RUN TIME: 2:48
DIRECTOR: Emma MacCabe
SYNOPSIS: What happens to wishes made on stars? Big stars are bogged down with
work, and planets can’t grant wishes at all. Maybe dim stars could make a dream
come true?
TITLE: EUA-LANDER
RUN TIME: 8:28
DIRECTOR: Erica Meus-Saunders
SYNOPSIS: 19-year-old Tracey is living a charmed life; great adoptive parents,
college life and childhood bestie. On the eve of her 20th birthday, she suddenly gets
ill and undergoes a transformation, changing into an outer-worLdly being. Her life
makes a 180 degree flip, one that she slowly adapts to.
EPISODE 3 - MARCH 18
TITLE: CITY COOP
RUN TIME: 07:14
DIRECTOR: Claire Fraser
SYNOPSIS: CITY COOP is a short documentary film showcasing backyard chicken
keepers in the Halifax and Dartmouth region. Through sharing knowledge and
experience around chicken keeping, more city dwellers may see the many benefits
that come with having a backyard coop.
TITLE: THE HEALING JAR
RUN TIME: 7:04
DIRECTOR: Andrea Cass
SYNOPSIS: THE HEALING JAR is a short meditative documentary which uses ASMR
techniques and poetic imagery designed to relax the audience. It creates a space for
the audience to reflect on their own healing.
TITLE: ENTRÉE
RUN TIME: 6:50
DIRECTOR: Akshay Shirke
SYNOPSIS: During the chaotic lead up to a Thanksgiving dinner in Halifax, two Indian
immigrants find themselves at odds about how to find their place in a new culture.
TITLE: MOTHER’S SKIN
RUN TIME: 20:00
DIRECTOR: Leah Johnston
SYNOPSIS: A neglected six-year-old girl struggles to cope with her mother’s
depression, uncovering a secret from her mother’s past.
EPISODE 4 - MARCH 25
TITLE: THE GAZE
RUN TIME: 8:48
DIRECTOR: Stacy Gardner
SYNOPSIS: Through the eyes of a South Korean artist living in Newfoundland, Ginok
Song, takes us on a journey through her paintings, and the wisdom gained through
the female gaze.
TITLE: KEEPER
RUN TIME: 13:27
DIRECTOR: Tori Martin Fleming
SYNOPSIS: Nicole is a housekeeper at a chain hotel, desperate to leave but unsure of
where to go. While cleaning the rooms of people with more exciting lives than her,
she tries on new identities by snooping through her eccentric group of guest’s belongings.
TITLE: SLAY
RUN TIME: 9:52
DIRECTOR: Kevin Hartford
SYNOPSIS: Faced with the impending departure of his BFF, Glen makes an effort to
rekindle old friendships...to varying degrees of success.
TITLE: THE YEAR OF THE LONG BOULDER
RUN TIME: 9:33
DIRECTOR: Brielle LeBlanc
SYNOPSIS: Crushed by a messy unrequited love, a young queer poet—through the
confidence of their best friend and the truth of their art—finally reckons with their own
emotional baggage (or ‘boulder’).