MOTHER’S SKIN
SHORT – DRAMA/FANTASY DRAMA, 20 MINUTES, 2022
A neglected six-year-old girl struggles to cope with her mother’s depression, uncovering a secret from her mother’s past.
PRODUCERS: LEAH JOHNSTON, JASON BUXTON
WRITER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR: LEAH JOHNSTON
STARRING: BRIAR MOSHER, RHIANNON MORGAN, JOEL THOMAS HYNES
Awards:
Winner: Best Short – Atlantic International Film Festival
Winner: Joan Orenstein Award for Outstanding Performance – Briar Ainslie – Atlantic International Film Festival
Winner: Outstanding Performance by an Actor – Briar Ainslie – ACTRA Awards
Nominee: WIFT-AT Best Director Award
Nominee: Best Short – Screen Nova Scotia Awards
Festivals: Shanghai International Film Festival – Finalist: Golden Goblet Competition (China), Olhar de Cinema – Curitiba International Film Festival (Brazil), Cinema on the Bayou (US premiere), Thessaloniki International Shorts Film Festival (Greece), Festival Internacional de Curtas de Verín (Spain), Atlantic International Film Festival (Winner – Best Short, Best Performance by a Leading Actress), Vancouver International Film Festival, Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Silver Wave Film Festival, Charlottetown Film Festival, Vancouver International Women in Film Festival, Festival Filministes, Nickel Film Festival
Website: www.leahjohnston.com/mothers-skin
INGRID AND THE BLACK HOLE
SHORT – SCI-FY/FANTASY DRAMA, 6 MINUTES, 2016
Two children discover a black hole and imagine what it would be like to travel through time.
PRODUCERS: LEAH JOHNSTON, WALTER FORSYTH
WRITER/DIRECTOR: LEAH JOHNSTON
STARRING: MOLLY DUNSWORTH, HANS PETTERSON, JORDAN POOLE, MIA PERRY, RENA KOSSATZ, JOSH MACDONALD
Awards:
Winner: Best Canadian Short- Edmonton International Film Festival
Winner: Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Technical Achievement- Vancouver Island Short Film Fest
Winner: Best Canadian Short- Silver Wave Film Festival
Winner: Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Molly Dunsworth as “Ingrid”- ACTRA Maritimes
Winner: Best Actor Jordan Poole as “Young Conrad”- Young Performer Awards
Winner: $35,000 WIFT/Bravofact Pitch prize
Nominee: Best Short Subject- Yorkton Golden Sheaf Awards
Broadcasts: CBC Reflections 2017, CBC Reel East Coast, Air Canada- Not Short on Talent 2017
Festivals: Cannes Film Festival -Telefilm’s Not Short on Talent, Fantasia International Film Festival, CBC Short Film Gala- Atlantic Film Festival, Edmonton International Film Festival, Festival de Cinema de la Ville Quebec, Yorkton Film Festival, National Arts Centre of Canada, Charlottetown Film Festival, St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival, Showcase Truro Film Festival, Parrsboro Film Festival, Silver Wave Film Festival, Blood in the Snow Film Festival, Little Terrors Festival-Monthly Screening Series, Vancouver Island Short Film Festival, Reel to Real Int’l Film Festival for Youth, Toxic Nova Cinema Screening Series, ShorTS International Film Festival, Reel Shorts Film Festival, Halifax Independent Film Festival, Female Eye Film Festival.
Website: www.ingridandtheblackhole.com
MY YOUNGER OLDER SISTER
SHORT – DRAMA, 17 MINUTES, 2015
A young woman enters a crisis on the eve of her 19th birthday as she realizes she is about to out-age her older sister who died at 18.
PRODUCERS: LEAH JOHNSTON, JESS BROWN
WRITER/DIRECTOR: LEAH JOHNSTON
STARRING: SHELLEY THOMPSON, LEAH JOHNSTON, KATHERINE JOHNSTON, JEREMIE SAUNDERS, ALEXIS MILLIGAN
Awards:
Winner: 2014 Linda Joy Award. Awarded funding from Nova Scotia Arts Council.
Winner: Platinum Remi Award- Worldfest Houston
Nominee: Best Canadian Short- Silver Wave Film Festival
Nominee: Best Actress- ACTRA Maritimes awards
Broadcasts: CBC Reel Coast Program- 2016
Festivals: Shorts International Film Festival- Maremetraggio, Atlantic Film Festival, Worldfest Houston, Silver Wave Film Festival, Spotlight Gala: Showcase Truro Film Festival, Parrsboro Film Festival, NSI Online Film Festival
Website: www.myyoungeroldersister.com