Jackie Whitten
Directing
Known For

Detective Charlie Hudson teams up with what he calls his "highly trained law enforcement animal" German Shepherd dog named Rex who he prefers to team up with because he doesn't talk his ear off.
Hudson & Rex

A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.
Closet Monster

Coronation Street meets downtown St. John's. A serious drama, dark, funny and gritty. Not a silly spoof of Newfoundlanders.
The Slattery Street Crockers

One wild and tumultuous summer in the life of young Jude Traynor as he attempts to navigate his way through a life of delinquency and petty crime.
Cast No Shadow

Diminished by grief, 18-year-old Tess (Kelly Van Der Burg) is moving through her life like a ghost. The one thing that comforts her is listening to the music of Danny Sharpe (Joel Thomas Hynes), a local legend who left home almost 20 years ago. Tess is stunned when she wakes up one day to find him in her kitchen, igniting a spark of life in her that grows out of control.
Body & Bones

A blood feud divides a small town in rural Newfoundland.
Riverhead

Emily Price tries to balance family life and leading crunch negotiations between a Canadian politician and the president of a country whose natural resources are being exploited.
Boundaries

Bernice, a 15 year old misfit runs away from her rural Newfoundland community in search of Pignut, a tormented and violent gutter punk, after he steals her father's ashes right out of his urn.
Hunting Pignut

A hack filmmaker wastes the money lent to him by a mysterious organization, and so has to take matters into his own hands by locking a cast of actors in a house and becoming the villain in his own slasher movie.
Incredible Violence

A short film about life and death.
Wife and Death

Margaret is a grandmother serving out a sentence in a minimum security prison. Daniel, her grandson, is a gifted classical guitar student who loves his nan very much. They've always had a deep connection, rooted in music. The day before his graduation, Margaret gets authorization to attend Daniel's concert ceremony. During the next 24 hours, they play music together, discuss the nature of family, and freedom, and get reacquainted after a long time apart. On the day of the ceremony, Daniel reveals a hidden intention - to help Margaret regain her freedom.
C Sharp and D Suspended

When Tommy is fired twice in the same week and finds out his brilliant best friend and lifeline, Costa, is leaving the country for a better job, he seizes an opportunity to prove his worth by taking his friends on a trip - in a stolen boat.
Party Pirate

A father strives to give his daughter a perfect life full of happy memories, in spite of a troubling diagnosis and a partner overseas.
Waiting Outside

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.
Pitter Patter Goes Her Heart
Helen is a 'well-to-do' university student whose father wants her to come to work for him, but she's not interested. At Cover to Cover Tutorial Agency -a reputable agency, in a rough part of town- Helen meets up with Andy. He's a street-smart skateboarder, who knows a thing or two.
Tutorial
Dealing with trust issues triggered by a drug addiction, John must deal with the aftermath of his own actions.
Cracker Barrel

When a boy from Darcy's cadet corps insists she attend the Trampoline Social, she sets off for a dramatic evening of self-acceptance and sweet backflips.
Bounce

When Darrell, a lonely widower, leaves his house in the morning he has no intentions of returning. However, a chance run-in with a bright, hurting young girl might just be the thing to save him.
Shattered Mind's Eye
Sadness, happiness, despair...for a mime, these are the tricks of the trade. Blurring the line between what's real and what's not can be achieved with a gesture of the hand, or the tensing of a body. Life of a Mime explores a day in which the performance never ends. A nameless entertainer, the titular mime can't catch a break. Beginning with an unenthusiastic crowd his day goes from bad to worse as he contends with a society that doesn't seem to quite understand nor tolerate him. Things then take a turn for the drastic when he arrives home, penniless. Come and enjoy this dark comedy which shows that a day in the Life of a Mime isn't always so black and white.
Life of a Mime

In this hilarious tale about facing adult responsibility, a young couple with relationship troubles must choose between talking things through or using their newly acquired magic wands to resolve their issues.