Jacqueline Hynes

The lives of a disillusioned teen and an alienated man converge in 1980s Newfoundland.

Inspired by true events. When Daisy's husband is murdered, the news brings on a sudden, traumatic labor. Now, reliant on medication following a complicated birth, Daisy depends on her best friend Louise to help care for her son. But her husband’s death has triggered a strange series of events, and she soon finds herself in danger. Will she be able to uncover the truth in time to save herself and her new baby?

The story of Ruby, 13, determined to grow up fast after her mother runs away to become a movie star, leaving Ruby with her hopelessly rural father.

Didi and Max are the most competitive best friends in the fourth grade. But their friendship hangs in the balance when Principal Jack announces a school-wide contest to see who can sell the most fertilizer.

In the early 1980s, 13-year-old Beatrice Gravel's comfortable world—family, school, and church—fractures when her mother moves out to 'self actualize', leaving Beatrice and her younger sister Chloe with their devastated father. As Beatrice doubles down on a plan to 'fix' her family, she barrels through bullies, friendship blowups, a make-out party, and a kleptomaniac babysitter—forcing her to decide who she wants to be when she can’t get what she wants.

A young man is forced to confront his past traumas following his first day of work on a logging camp in the 1930s.

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.

A young man struggles with the death of his parents. He connects with a psychic to find answers.

When a troubled woman arrives in the city to start her life anew, she must navigate the complex landscape of her past when she comes face to face with a younger woman threatening down the same path.

It's a fine, frail line between fantasy and reality when the doleful, downtrodden state of a couple's relationship unfurls against the backdrop of a feed of moose sausages and tea. Sexual frustration, co-dependency, domestic despair and just a hint of missing male libido all play out within the crestfallen subtleties of opposing table manners and passive aggressive tea-brewing rituals.

Caitlyn's therapist convinces her to try a new form of hypnosis that allows her to communicate with her anxiety.

Of the Essence tells the story of a couple, Tom and Emily, who, after a chance encounter at a grocery store, have a fight which could end up being the last time they speak. Through alternating time lines between a frantic Tom racing through downtown St. John's and the catalyst encounter, Tom discovers that some battles are truly worth fighting, while others are insignificant in the grander scale.

Henry lives alone growing rhubarb in the dark when his friend Emmanuel arrives to collect the harvest. Together, they tentatively explore the boundaries of their relationship community spaces in a tender and touching film about loneliness and longing.

A young women craving attention in her relationship, finds a lump in her breast.

Young Leia is abandoned by her mother when they receive an unsettling visit from Mister, Mom's old friend and current employer.

A group of youngsters discover that Mr. Templeton has 40 grand hidden in his home. They figure they can get their hands on the cash by masking themselves as Newfoundland Mummers.

Karen attempts to grapple with the fleeting nature of romance through filmmaking, only to run into conflict with her surrounding cast and crew. You can try to make art imitate life, but it doesn't necessarily make life any easier.

A short film by Jacqueline Hynes made through Nifco's First Time Filmmaker Program.

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.

An unusual request forces Delph the barber to come to terms with possible loss.