Chuck Lapp

Biographic film about Canadian author Ernest Buckler.

A documentary about the struggles of inshore fishermen against greedy corporations and the Canadian government.

In the 1970's, filmmakers Tom Burger, Bill McKiggan and Chuck Lapp began documenting the history and current struggles of inshore fishermen in Atlantic Canada to form a union. Until 1979 it was illegal for fishermen to form a union in Nova Scotia. The committed funding from the National Film Board was withdrawn for this film, however the filmmakers continued to edit the film by entering the NFB at night. The CBC refused to broadcast the film, but it was finally released in 1990 and broadcast nationally that year on Vision TV.

This documentary reveals an intimate portrait of Nova Scotia artist Tom Forrestall who is world renowned for his realistic paintings and ability to capture Atlantic Canada landscapes. In this program, Forrestall speaks candidly about suffering with epilepsy and how the condition influences his art.

Fishing communities in Newfoundland struggle in the wake of the 1992 Atlantic Cod Moratorium and dwindling fish populations.

Born in Pictou, Nova Scotia in 1892, Christian socialist Kenneth Leslie attended Dalhousie University as a 14-year-old child prodigy, then went on to study philosophy and theology in the States during the late 1930s. That’s when the award-winning poet, disturbed by American pro-fascist and anti-Semitic sentiment, launched the progressive Protestant Digest; his socialist politics during the unforgiving Cold War era eventually landed him in Life magazine’s top 50 Communists, along with Arthur Miller and Albert Einstein.