Troy Maher

Haunted by nightmares and visions, Vera abandons her life in Iceland to chase the ghost of her disappeared father to the coast of Newfoundland. After settling in a remote fishing village, she finds herself drawn to Jack, a seal hunter leaving town with his failing boat and superstitious crew.

The story of an endangered Newfoundland community and the struggles of one man determined to resist its extinction.

If you want to find world-class artisans, the small northern Labrador community of Hopedale offers you some of the best. Created through the St. John's International Women's Film Festival's FRAMED film education series, in partnership with the Nunatsiavut government, this film focuses on three prominent local craftspeople- two carvers and one traditional sewist.

In her feature documentary Seguridad, Newfoundland-based filmmaker Tamara Segura—once named “Cuba’s youngest soldier” in a militia publicity stunt—portrays her troubled relationship with her father in the context of the Cuban Revolution. When Segura accepts a scholarship to study film in Canada, the move offers crucial distance from her alcoholic father. After four years, she returns to Cuba hoping to make amends. But her father’s sudden death just days after her arrival forces Segura to explore his troubled past and the role Cuba’s highly militarized system played in his downfall. Through a series of deeply personal on-camera interviews with her immediate family, Segura unearths long-held secrets that ultimately tell a story of resilience and profound love between family members. Seguridad artfully weaves a lifetime’s worth of still photographs into its intimate narrative, which offers a rare glimpse into the inner lives of Cubans in the post-revolutionary era.

A young man is forced to confront his past traumas following his first day of work on a logging camp in the 1930s.

Casey's mother ensures her daughter receives the education, protection, and loving care little girls need. But an altercation with some local schoolgirls reveals that Casey's life is based on a lie.

An eccentric old man in a local pub tells tales too tall to be true.

When Jeannie lost her father, he is waked at home, his pine box laid across two chairs in the parlour; he has long lived inside a box. Based on the poem by Agnes Walsh comes a story of finding a use for everything.

Melody, a young woman with a genetic heart condition, escapes her bleak existence with Alto, her canine confidant. After Melody's heart falters, Alto seeks the help of a Good Samaritan to rescue her.

Kathy is a portrait of the most fascinating creature of all: the adult in training, the object of everyone's first affection, the teenage girl.

In what appears to be a Sisyphean task, Newfoundland diver Shawn Bath has devoted himself to cleaning up the ocean floor one rotting tire at a time. He's already removed 15,000 pounds of garbage single-handedly. Through decades of commercial fishing and tourism, these Atlantic harbours became trash receptacles treated with an out-of-sight, out-of-mind attitude. Driven by passion and held back by bureaucracy, this inspiring story highlights the enormity of human-caused environmental damage and the power of an individual's determination to make the world a better place.

The community of Nain in northern Labrador is rich with breathtaking landscapes and people with a strong storytelling history. Created through the St. John's International Women's Film Festival's FRAMED film educations series, in partnership with the Nunatsiavut Government, this film explores throat singing- a special talent and traditional game for both fun and public entertainment, which was nearly destroyed but has since been revived.

Karen attempts to grapple with the fleeting nature of romance through filmmaking, only to run into conflict with her surrounding cast and crew. You can try to make art imitate life, but it doesn't necessarily make life any easier.

Sundays a short film disguised as a music video about one man's quest for knowledge and the extreme lengths he will go to find it.

An elderly woman recounts the disturbing history of mummering in 1920s Newfoundland. Eve witnesses a murder; her only escape is into the woods as a darker truth comes to light.

A depressed man learns that fortune comes in many forms, and at any moment it can slam into you like a speeding car. Or in this case, an SUV.

A Gothic period piece set in Newfoundland during 1888, concerning the meeting between a mysterious, wealthy woman and a lowly man from the streets.

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A small-time thug desperately tries to escape the law, only to find himself trapped in a forest plagued by physical and supernatural terror.