March 2020

City Cinema Presents “Corpus Christi” and “The Wild Goose Lake”

films available online

City Cinema has partnered up with the distributor Film Movement to deliver cinema-goers titles that had been scheduled to play at the cinema in April....

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...

Over 4,000 titles free at NFB.ca

an online destination for the whole family

Accessing quality content for the young—and the young at heart—can be a challenge. NFB.ca offers a vast selection of short and feature-length film...

And Yet I blame Hollywood

And Yet I Blame Hollywood

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 ...

And Yet I Blame Hollywood

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...

And Yet I Blame Hollywood

And Yet I Blame Hollywood

And Yet I Blame Hollywood

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...

And Yet I Blame Hollywood

And Yet I Blame Hollywood

Proof of concept

Jason Rogerson’s Boxcar Dan about to show at Upstreet

In 2009, hobo country comedy band Boxcar Dan and the Vagabond Strangers hit the skids in Charlottetown and left a mark. To celebrate a decade of dirty...

Still the Water begins shooting

A local film production company, Mighty Ocean Film, recently began shooting of their first feature, Still the Water. The main block of shooting will t...

And Yet I Blame Hollywood

And Yet I Blame Hollywood

Charlottetown Film Society

Fundraising campaign

The Charlottetown Film Society was established in 2012 with a primary objective to purchase City Cinema in downtown Charlottetown and to continue to o...

PEI Screenwriters’ Bootcamp

Four new workshops added for 2019

FilmPEI has announced the addition of four workshops to be offered during this year’s PEI Screenwriters’ Bootcamp. Year thirteen of this event wil...