
Cody Westman
Directing
Biography
Cody Westman is a director/shooter in St. John's NL Canada who owns and operates Cats Eye Cinema, making corporate and commercial videos as a day job, and has directed 3 short films to date (fiction and documentary). Cody was born in Smithers, British Columbia and discovered film as an extra in Montreal in 2000. He bought his first camera in 2013 and went straight to work on a short documentary. 2018 marked a new high as Cody's short film Casey was selected by Telefilm Canada to be featured in Canada's Not Short On Talent at the Festival De Cannes in Cannes, France. His feature documentary Hell Or Clean Water won 2 Audience Choice Awards at Hot Docs 2021 and now airs on Documentary Channel and CBC Gem.
Known For

Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis falls in love with a fishmonger while working for him as a live-in housekeeper.
Maudie

Spain, 1970s. A Clockwork Orange, a film considered by critics and audiences as one of the best works in the history of cinema, directed by Stanley Kubrick and released in 1971, was banned by the strict Franco government. However, the film was finally premiered, without going through censorship, during the 20th edition of the Seminci, the Valladolid Film Festival, on April 24, 1975. How was this possible?
A Forbidden Orange

The debut comedy special from two time JUNO Award losing comedian Matt Wright, "Live at the Majestic" filmed at The Majestic Theatre in St. John's Newfoundland, explores the thin line between being smart and dumb, the struggles of paying taxes, tips on planning a wedding and much more.
Matt Wright - Live at the Majestic

Adopted Montreal filmmaker Adrian Wills discovers, on camera and in real time, the startling truths of his complex beginnings in Newfoundland. Shocking details drive Wills to the core of his birth mother’s resilience, and ultimately his own. In this moving feature documentary that combines 16mm footage and contemporary images with deeply personal conversations, Wills’ voyage transforms from an urgent search for identity into a quest to give a quiet girl her voice.
A Quiet Girl

Set against the backdrop of his son’s first five years of life—from cooing infant to hurricane of a boy—filmmaker Justin Simms looks at modern masculinity through the lens of fatherhood as he asks an increasingly urgent question: How do we teach our boys to be better men?
Sons
End of the Line, which features Jessie Montgomery's PEACE, is a visual pilgrimage of one person's journey from big city lockdown to finding solace in the landscape of the natural world.
End of the Line

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.
Casey

Chronicles ten weeks with Lauda - a pioneering youth ensemble within the internationally renowned Shallaway Youth Choir, one of only a handful of choirs in the world to embrace all neurotypes. As the choristers prepare for their end of season concert, they reveal the joyful harmony they’ve found together while navigating a world not always tuned to their rhythm.
Sing the World Better

In Newfoundland, an unemployed minibike rider enters a minibike competition to win back his girlfriend.
How To Be Deadly
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Deadline

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.
Hell or Clean Water

A short documentary about the first real Irish pub in St. John's, Newfoundland that was opened in 1986 by musician Ralph O'Brien and sold in 2012 to Chris Andrews of Shanneyganock and Bob Hallett of Great Big Sea. The film follows the new owners as they are forced to rebuild from scratch after a major flood.
That Little Room: The Story of Erin's Pub

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.