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New season of Reel East Coast short films, docs on CBC Gem

Watch short films from Atlantic Canadian filmmakers on Reel East Coast.

Start screening original stories from emerging Atlantic filmmakers free on CBC Gem

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Season 10 of Reel East Coast, featuring shorts and documentaries by Atlantic Canadian filmmakers, is now streaming on CBC Gem.

Hosted by Jeff Douglas, all four episodes include multi-genre shorts produced throughout the Atlantic region.

Reel East Coast is produced in partnership with the Atlantic International Film Festival and CBC. 

Be sure to catch these episodes in this year's lineup:

Episode 1 

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A poster for Reel East Coast. There are four photos from four films: Clockwise from left, top, profile of older women with grey hair and wrinkled face in a brown sweater; the top of a white church steeple with a tree in front; Three people stand in a kitchen close to the kitchen sink washing wishes; a drawing of a woman with an orange face and blue hair. In the bottom left corner is REC Reel East Coast, 10 Years in black text on a white background. Present by The Atlantic International Film Festival is next to that and in the bottom right hand corner is the CBC logo in red and black on a white background.
EVELYN
Director: Millefiore Clarkes
Entering into the world of wise and wry Evelyn Christopher offers a window into what we have lost with all of our rushing around. Evelyn Christopher is 94 years old and still grows enough food to give surplus away to neighbours. She comes from a time when time had a different texture. A place where pace was in step with the seasons.

She understands the land, the sea, and the air. She doesn't have much use for the goings on of contemporary society. She is one of the last of her kind, and with her goes a way of being in the world: dirt under your fingernails, chores every morning at dawn, knowing just how to grow a turnip, stacking every stick of firewood for the lean winter months. There will never be another Evelyn.

FATHER ARCHIE
Director: Todd Fraser
The filmmaker's grandfather narrates a tale of old Father Archie, set to decomposing 16mm of the local parish, in this archaeological work from the experimental postmemory of Todd Fraser.

WHAT GOOD CANADIANS DO
Director: Stephanie Joline
What Good Canadians Do is a captivating short film featuring a poem written and performed by Mi'kmaw writer Rebecca Thomas, brought to life through the illustrations of Indigenous artist Phyllis Grant, and animated by Andrea Dorfman.

THE KITCHEN SINK
Director: Olivia King
A traditional Maritime image: three generations of P.E.I. women wash dishes after holiday dinners. Their after-dinner conversations become revealing when one of their own begins his transition.

Episode 2 - premieres May 15

A poster for Reel East Coast. There are three photos for the three films:From left, Is a wined-up set of chattering teeth against a green background; A lake with the fog lifting against a forest backdrop; A woman in a white dress against an old log house (black and white photo). In the bottom corner is the REC (Reel East Coast logo) in black text on white and next to it the is "10 years". Present by The Atlantic International Film Festival is next to that and in the bottom right hand corner is the CBC logo in red and black on a white background.

ME AND MY TEETH
Director: Anna Louise Quon
A witty and poetic short on the filmmaker's journey through their mental—and dental—health, told through playful animations coupled with intimate tableaus of Quon's day-to-day life.

THE MIST (LA BRUME)
Director: Jerome Luc Paulin
From the album Mouvance, La Brume combines the text of Georgette LeBlanc, the voice of Suzie LeBlanc, and the music of Jérôme Blais, unveiling a world of silence and mystery where every shadow holds a story…

BEDLAMER
Director: Alexa Jane Jerrett
On the shores of a small fishing village lives a lonely settlement of men - capturing and domesticating otherworldly creatures that were never meant to be tamed.

Episode 3 - premieres May 22

A poster for Reel East Coast. There are three photos, from left, a black and white photo of three people sitting around a camp fire with a pile of logs behind them; a blue photo of a person with their back to the camera and looking out a window; a drawing of a woman in the window of a bus with other passengers behind her. In the bottom corner is the REC (Reel East Coast logo) in black text on white and next to it the is "10 years". Present by The Atlantic International Film Festival is next to that and in the bottom right hand corner is the CBC logo in red and black on a white background.
PEARLS
Director: Mike Simms
In Newfoundland filmmaker Mike Simms' gritty thriller, a young man is forced to confront his past traumas following his first day of work on a logging camp in the 1930s.


EYE PIECE
Director: Kate Solar
After their friend and roommate abruptly moves out, microbiology student Darcy becomes mesmerized by a telescope left behind. Moving between details too small to see and a cosmos too large to understand, an absence still remains. They must greet it on their own terms.

WHERE MY BRANCHES STEM
Director: Teresa Kuo
Where My Branches Stem tells the story of a young Chinese woman who is tired from her nine to five work life in the big city prompting her to move back home with her grandfather.

Episode 4 - premieres May 29

A poster for Reel East Coast. There are four photos from four films: Clockwise from left, top, a young girl sits in a bed under a blanket with stuffed animal toys next to her; an drawing of a young boy; a woman rock climbing as the sun comes around the cliff; a ice covered lake with a grey horizon. In the bottom corner is the REC (Reel East Coast logo) in black text on white and next to it the is "10 years". Present by The Atlantic International Film Festival is next to that and in the bottom right hand corner is the CBC logo in red and black on a white background.

73 SECONDS
Director: Stacy Gardner
It's 1986, Shannon Crane means to be bound for a future she cannot know, on a day filled with possibility and hope. In her 7th grade class, Shannon has to reckon with the ordinary calamity of being herself after a simultaneous incident of being bullied, is caught between the extraordinary catastrophic event of the space challenger disaster, leaving a debris of searching, questioning. Where were you when you experienced your own undoing and becoming?

PERMIT GARDEN
Director: Jenny Yujia Shi
A dreamlike parable about immigration, Permit Garden follows a nameless child as they toil to gain exit from the Garden. But as time goes on, they wonder if escape is even possible.

YOU MOVE ME (TU ME MOUVES)
Director: Stéphane Lévesque
From the album Mouvance, Tu me mouves combines the text of Sarah Marylou Brideau, the voice of Suzie LeBlanc, and the music of Jérôme Blais, taking us on a journey to the elusive Isle of Caraquet in New Brunswick.

CARVED FROM STONE
Director: Tyler Burr
Brooke Carten has been rock climbing for long enough that it's hard to imagine who she'd be without it. How has climbing shaped the person she's become?


Photos are courtesy of CBC and Atlantic International Film Festival.

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