Schedule
2024 festival
2024 festival
ALL WEEKEND
Friday - Sunday
Bonne Bay Aquarium and Research Station (Main Floor Aquarium) Norris Point, NLDAZE JEFFERIES
when you leave me overflown (watermother), 2023
An ambient siren song bellows with the gentle movements of a spectral fishy body made from textiles washed ashore in the Bay of Exploits.
Run time: 2 min 55 sec
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18
Bonne Bay Aquarium and Research StationNorris Point, NL
7:00PM - OPENING Reception + feature film
The King Tide
Director: Christian SparkesRun time: 100 minGenre: ThrillerA struggling East Coast island community is given a mysterious lifeline when an infant washes up on their beach. The baby radiates a rejuvenating aura, healing anyone who spends a few moments in her presence. But after a decade of prosperity, Isla's adoptive parents must decide whether her safety takes precedence over their community's expectations.
Working from a screenplay by Albert Shin (Disappearance at Clifton Hill, TIFF ’19) and producer William Woods, director Christian Sparkes pitches The King Tide at an observational mode that marries the quiet tension of his debut drama Cast No Shadow and the intensity of his subsequent revenge thriller Hammer.
Clayne Crawford and Lara Jean Chorostecki play the couple who raise Isla as their own, and must decide how best to balance her needs with their neighbours’ demands. Frances Fisher, Michael Greyeyes, Emily Piggford, and Crawford’s Rectify stepbrother Aden Young all play key roles, and Alix West Lefler gives the young Isla a delicate affect that immediately distinguishes her from all the other kids.
It’s a story about an insular community refusing to accept a much larger world beyond its shores, mirroring our specific cultural circumstance while serving as a timeless meditation on faith and fundamentalism. It’s also about parents desperately trying to protect their child from an increasingly hostile world, afraid their love may not be enough.
3:30 PM - ELIJAH MARTEL - ZINE WORKSHOP
DESCRIPTION COMING SOON!
Saturday, OCTOBER 19
Bonne Bay Aquarium and Research StationNorris Point, NL
10:00am - Critter release
Join us on the beach as the Aquarium staff release the critters back to sea for the season! Get inspired and draw your favourite critters with co-hosts Elijah Martel and Megan Samms. Art supplies will be supplied by Connecting Art, Place & Science: Spruce Budworm and its Impact! If you wish, submit your works created to the Community Exhibition opening tomorrow!
1:00 PM - CNA Short film Series
A selection of short films from the CNA Digital Filmmaking Program
I Dare Say
Producer: CNA Digital Filmmaking ProgramDirector: John McKinnonScreenplay Written by: Andrew Pike & John McKinnonRun Time: 18:14 Fistful of Water
Producer: CNA Digital Animation ProgramDirector: David Martingale & Aaron HowellRun Time: 5:04 The Fisherman
Producer: CNA Digital Filmmaking ProgramDirector: Travis LucasScreenplay Written by: Travis LucasRun Time: 10:54
Sandy Point Pirates
Producer: CNA Digital Filmmaking ProgramDirector: Leahdawn HelenaScreenplay Written by: Bree Downey & Travis LucasAdapted from Stageplay “The Privateer” by Benedict PittmanRun Time: 34:267:00 PM - Gros morne double feature
Post-screening Q&A with Ryan Noth and Geoff Morrison
Gros Morne: National Parks Project
Director: Ryan NothProducer: Geoff Morrison, J.R. McConvey, Ryan NothCinematography: Peter MettlerOriginal music: Andrew Whiteman + Dale MorningstarRun Time: 43 min The National Parks Project (NPP) is rooted in the idea that technology and nature are not mutually exclusive, and that art is the link that can best bind them together. By taking teams of acclaimed filmmakers and musicians to Canada’s National Parks, to camp for four days and create short films and soundtracks that communicate their experience of the landscape, the NPP hopes to reconnect people to the idea of wilderness as a playground, a sanctuary and a source of inspiration.
Trout River and the Blue Whale
Producer: Olivia Ball Director: Tom Cochrane Run Time: 44 minThe documentary film shares first hand experiences of community members of Trout River, NL, when the carcass of a blue whale washed ashore in 2014.
What happens when the largest creature ever to have existed comes ashore in a town of 500 people? What happens when the world’s press descends on a Newfoundland outport? And what happens when the whale, and the attention, is gone?
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20
Bonne Bay Aquarium and Research StationNorris Point, NL
Spruce BudWorm community exhibition
An exhibition with works by all ages and in a variety of mediums by community members! The exhibition will be open all day in the Marine Station and is organized in parallel with People & the Sea programming as part of the Connecting Art, Place & Science Autumn 2024 Residency. Supported by Grenfell Campus and Natural Resources Canada.
Facebook Page: Connecting Place, Art, and Science Fall 2024 Residency.
2:00pm - Asoqmita'yek (We are Crossing over)
Post-screening discussion with the filmmakers
Director: Dean SimonProducer: Ktaqmkuk Mi'kmaw Fluency Project Editor: Chris McCarthy3:00pm - FILMS ON CLIMATE AND WATER in nl
Post-screening discussion with Barbara Doran and Leila Beaudoin
TakIng on water
Director / Producer: Barbara DoranVideographer: Jerry McIntoshRun Time: 39 min Sponsored by Future Ocean and Coastal Infrastructures, a FOCI Project
All eyes on the water
Director / Producer: Leila Beaudoin Run Time: 18 min 
Wrap Party
You did it! Even though the Singularity is infinite, there will be a Warp Party to gather with all the friends you’ve made on your journey.
Sand
This is your chance to take home a piece of the Singularity! Join us on an expedition to bottle up the sand on the event horizon for our permanent collections.
The tours will be led by experts in the field, leading us down a winding trail full of discourse on the upcoming unforeseeable changes to human civilization.
Infinity Meet and Greet
Slip into the Singularity with one of our signature Infinite Cocktails, while you’re whisked away by the hypothetical future sounds of irreversible technological progress.
As day turns to night and time collapses in on itself, a wide collection of gourmet food trucks will be available to delight even the most spherical palate.