Film PEI artist in residence
Film PEI will welcome Teresa Kuo as artist in residence this summer. Teresa will be creating an experimental animation for the Film PEI Experimental S...
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New fund supports PEI film industry
The Province is launching a new film fund to grow the film and television industry on PEI. The goal of the PEI Film Production Fund (PEIFPF) is to: g...
Market-ready producers
Meet the inaugural participants
The National Screen Institute— Canada (NSI), in partnership with FilmPEI and Creative PEI, welcome five producers from PEI who recently began traini...
Invisible Hand
Sierra Club Atlantic Canada Chapter host online screening
The Sierra Club Atlantic Canada Chapter is hosting an online film screening of Invisible Hand, a documentary on the Rights of Nature movement, followe...
Women in film
Watching Interesting Films Together at City Cinema
PEI’s chapter of Women in Film and Television Atlantic (WIFT-AT) will present Island director Harmony Wagner’s feature film Singing to Myself on M...
Blood and Salt Water
Lennie Gallant’s video by filmmaker and fan Susan Rodgers
Lennie Gallant released the music video for his song “Blood and Salt Water” on April 7 of this year. The video was shot late last summer by a smal...
Islanders involved in Halifax Homicide
PEI actors featured in new true-crime documentary
Filmed in Lower Sackville, NS with an entirely local crew, Halifax Homicide focuses on major crime in the Halifax Regional Municipality and tells thre...
Queer film classics
First public Island screening for many titles at City Cinema
Out of the Closet and Onto the Screen is a new initiative of Pride PEI that brings six queer film classics to City Cinema in Charlottetown for their f...
PEI Screenwriters’ Bootcamp
Something new for 2021
The 2021 PEI Screenwriters’ Bootcamp will be held May 25–June 4 at the Haviland Club in Charlottetown. FilmPEI is able to offer many levels o...
Film 4ward 2021 projects
FilmPEI recently selected four locally-produced film projects from a diverse slate of filmmakers for the 2021 Film 4Ward program. Keara Higgins and S...
Film Fest Wrap
The 6th Annual Charlottetown Film Festival (ChFF20), which took place in October, showcased close to 60 works from all four Atlantic provinces—both ...
Before Grindr
Gay and lesbian history of PEI series launches December 1
Before Grindr: The Secret Social History of Gay & Lesbian PEI, a six-part interview series, will launch online December 1. The series begins the p...
Lost in Dreams
Dylan Menzie’s weekly podcast is now streaming
PEI-based songsmith Dylan Menzie launched the Lost in Dreams Podcast in September. Over the course of 10 weekly episodes Dylan will sit down with Can...
The Story of the I’m Alone wins at TIFA
The Story of the I’m Alone, produced by Penumbra Press, was recently selected as the winner in the Animated Short category at the Toronto Independen...
Public domain
Stray Shorts Stories | by Sean McQuaid
Already a dwindling rarity by the time of your hoary historian’s youth, animated cartoon shorts were a fixture of movie theatres for decades, flouri...
Charlottetown Film Festival
6th annual event is a go for 2020
The Charlottetown Film Society wasn’t convinced it could honour its core commitment to provide a film festival for Island filmmakers and film buffs ...
Island Drive-In Festival
Pre-recorded shows pop-up on screen across PEI
The Island Drive-In Festival, a project of Small Halls Inc., is a twist on the classic drive-in experience. It will feature over 30 Island artists and...
Solastalgia is streaming
Film by Millefiore Clarkes and Tanya Davis on CBC’s GEM
The short, lyrical film Solastalgia from director Millefiore Clarkes and poet Tanya Davis premiered online on CBC’s GEM streaming platform (gem.cbc....
And Yet I blame Hollywood
Many thanks to Mr. Dave Stewart for his cartoon contributions to The Buzz for the last 22 years. See you at the movies!
DiverseCity@Home Festival 2020
The PEI Association for Newcomers to Canada is presenting the DiverseCity Festival in a new format this year. DiverseCity@Home will bring many element...
Charlottetown Film Society
It has been a busy few months for The Charlottetown Film Society, having achieved registered charity status, purchased City Cinema, obtained a license...
About Brian Burke
Book launch and screening of documentary
The Confederation Centre Art Gallery (CCAG) will be hosting two events this month to celebrate its current retrospective exhibition on prolific PEI pa...
To the Power of Five
Play about PEI’s 1993 Women in Politics now online
The stage performance, To the Power of Five: 1993 PEI Women in Politics, can now be viewed online. The play, through story and song, depicts the one a...
SOLASTALGIA
Millefiore Clarkes film plays Canadian festivals
The new short, lyrical film SOLASTALGIA from director Millefiore Clarkes, producer Emma Fugate, and poet Tanya Davis is beginning its festival life th...
5th Charlottetown Film Festival
Onward! opening night features Film4Ward projects
Onward! the all-Island Opening Night of the 5th Annual Charlottetown Film Festival on October 25 at 7 pm at City Cinema will provide the first chance ...
Island films at FIN
Four short films from PEI at Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax
Four short films funded by FilmPEI/InnovationPEI’s film fund, Film4Ward, are premiering at the 2019 FIN Atlantic International Film Festival in Hali...
Review: John Cleese
I was 17 when Monty Python’s Flying Circus first introduced the world to John Cleese. In the ensuing years I have followed his career with great ...
The Song and the Sorrow
May Screenings at home and away
The Song and the Sorrow, a documentary directed by PEI filmmaker Millefiore Clarkes, and produced by the National Film Board of Canada, explores the l...
New Alicia Toner video
Dangerous Home
PEI singer-songwriter Alicia Toner is presenting a larger project about struggle, reflection and truth. The video for her latest single “Dangerous H...
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