
Willow Kean
Acting
Biography
Willow Kean is an actor and writer originally from Labrador West. She's co-written several children's plays that have toured provincially, and her five-woman comedy Supper Club premiered at the LSPU Hall in 2021. She's been shortlisted for the Cuffer Prize and longlisted for the NLCU Fresh Fish Award, and she's won the Percy Janes First Novel Award in 2018. Willow lives in St. John's with her partner, the filmmaker Justin Simms, and their son, Jude.
Known For

Aided by his own remarkable abilities and an eclectic team of associates, real estate agent Luke Roman specializes in “metaphysically engaged properties,” aka haunted houses. Together they investigate, clear and close the houses nobody else can.
SurrealEstate

After the mayor of an idyllic island village discovers a child with mysterious powers awash on their shores, the once peaceful community devolves into civil war, torn over the belief that the child is the next saviour.
The King Tide
When a mysterious sea creature terrorizes a remote Newfoundland town, a hard-bitten fisherman must fight to protect his family, his community, and his vanishing way of life.
Untitled Jesse McKeown Series
After Raam, an international student, moves to Newfoundland to pursue his dreams and education, his housemate Joseph loses his job amidst the global pandemic. As they set out on a whale watching trip together, tragedy strikes leaving Raam questioning everything he knows.
Ballad of North Whale

A struggling writer emerges from rehab and reunites with his estranged brother, but soon descends into a tragic love triangle and is forced to confront a devastating reality.
Away from Everywhere
Alice, a bus tour guide in St. John's Newfoundland with a broken heart unexpectedly tells her tales of love and loss to a group of life-weary tourists and realizes the power of the moments she has experienced in the city.
The Tour

The Death of Winter: In 1830s Newfoundland, a woman is on trial for the murder of her husband. While innocent of the homicide, she is hanged for having an affair.
The Death of Winter
A woman looks past her insecurities in a time of change, self doubt and uncertainty.
Two Square Feet

In the coldest waters surrounding Newfoundland's rugged Fogo Island, "people of the fish"—traditional fishers—catch cod live by hand, one at a time, by hook and line. After a 20-year moratorium on North Atlantic cod, the stocks are returning. These fishers are leading a revolution in sustainability, taking their premium product directly to the commercial market for the first time. Travel with them from the early morning hours, spend time on the ocean, and witness the intricacies of a 500-year-old tradition that's making a comeback.
HAND. LINE. COD.
An incisive nuanced look at a family crumbling after their father returns from a war. Before the war showcases Tamara's love and understanding of the human heart.
Before the War

When a single mom, facing eviction, is offered a night’s work, she unsuccessfully seeks a babysitter for her two small children. Desperate, she reaches out to the last person she wants to ask for a favour.
Touch
Lionel, a hapless romantic at the end of his rope, suddenly and inexplicably starts receiving roses in the mail. Somebody out there must be paying attention - but who?
Lionel Lonely Heart

Deeply rooted in artistic families, young Luben Boykov and Elena Popova escape the repressions of communist Bulgaria and find refuge on the island of Newfoundland in 1990. With their 2-year-old daughter and sixty dollars they begin to build a new life. At the height of what many would define as success, they leap again, understanding that the greatest risk for art, and for love, is taking it for granted.