
Vaida Nairn
Production
Biography
Originally from Lithuania, Vaida Nairn has studied and worked in numerous countries before moving to St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada in 2018. Vaida is the owner of the film and TV production company Black Shore Productions Inc. With multiple directing, writing, and producing credits earned in 2022-2024, Vaida’s commitment to filmmaking was recently acknowledged as a selected participant in the Picture NL and Whistler Film Festival ‘Producer Accelerator Lab.’
Known For

A woman living in an isolated community is anchored to her home while waiting for her husband to return from sea, until she is reminded she has everything she needs to be free.
Proximity
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 young man is forced to confront his past traumas following his first day of work on a logging camp in the 1930s.
Pearls

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

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.
73 Seconds

Vivian and Harold's camping trip reveals their tensions, leading to a life-or-death situation as they confront their past.
Blueberry Grunt

Northerner is a short super-hero film. The style and premise make it a 'street level' story because the characters have no supernatural powers, but still deal with - or create - exceptional real-world problems. Northerner has three principal characters, Shane, Northerner, and Kate. Shane is a thief, who embraces his evolution into a super-villain. Kate has a reputation as a dirty cop and is bound by Shane to her past. Northerner is the catalyst who confronts both Shane and Kate with the opportunity to change the course of their lives.
Northerner
A Brazilian performance artist Vanesa Cardoso living in Newfoundland, Canada explores the figures of her Pochinko clown, discovering a desire to expose the comedy of our deepest vulnerabilities - the very ones that make us human. A creative journey through Richard Pochinko's seven masks and six directions, Vanessa reveals her clown while musing on the personal drive and struggles that inspire her art.
Above Above, Below Below

Nestled in her home by the ocean, Ash is creating wedding dresses for herself and the woman she’s about to marry. With every stitch, Ash moves closer to the life she envisions, but a premonition thrusts her into a world of mystery and loss.
A Place to Wait and Watch

Ginok Song, a South Korean artist living and painting in a small fishing village in Newfoundland, explores what home is, who she was, and where she is now. Ginok examines the choice to become an artist as a need to explore self-expression, an intimate journey to know herself through the female gaze.
The Gaze

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.
Bedlamer

While out blueberry picking in rural Newfoundland, a young woman finds herself mysteriously lost in the company of a stranger.
Blueberries for Iris
An elderly woman battles horrifying circumstances designed by her deteriorating mind - and in her darkest hours, flickers of her true self shine through.
Flickers

When Newfoundland locks down during the COVID-19 pandemic, a former dancer becomes further trapped in a toxic relationship with her emotionally abusive husband. Increasingly isolated and with only a goldfish as a friend, she is forced to choose between placating her husband and freeing herself.
Fishbowl

Racism, classism, poverty and his own outlandish characters put his artistic ambitions to test. Wanting to pull his family out of these dire circumstances, he had an idea to turn his life around. Importing condoms from Mumbai, India, Madhu packaged these in Goulds, Newfoundland and began to sell them to local markets. The Condom King Of Newfoundland is the ordinary-extraordinary story of an oft forgotten generation of immigrants. Through the eyes of his family and friends, a story of humour, absurdity and resilience comes alive
The Condom King of Newfoundland

A group of partygoers gather and listen to a grandmother’s strange tale.