Passion & Purpose: Short dramas and documentaries about finding your thing
June 21
June 21 at 6:30 PM
Festival Pass: $40.00
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Screening presented by Celtx
Change in Time
Director: Stephen L Bonnell • NL • 3 minutes
A couple goes to the movies but the experience is not what they had imagined. Contains nudity.
Iris
Director: Jillian Iscaro • USA • 10 minutes
A florist is surprised when her AI assistant alters one of her arrangements, leading her to question what it means to create in a world increasingly shaped by machines.
Houston’s Whitebeam
Director: Jake Morris, Alex Darby • UK • 13 minutes
At 80, climber-botanist-poet Libby Houston is still scaling Bristol’s cliffs to study rare plants. Her discovery of the endangered Houston’s Whitebeam—with only one known specimen remaining—prompts reflection on extinction and legacy.
Hang in There!
Director: Ian Foster • NL • 8 minutes
A journalist is skeptical when an administrator for a cash-strapped healthcare system suggests moving their services online.
Echoes of the Ice
Director: Matt LeMay • Nunavut • 19 minutes
Inuk filmmaker Crystal Martin travels to Iqaluit to document how climate change is affecting contemporary Inuit life in the Nunavut capital.
Above Above, Below Below
Director: Vaida Nairn, Daniel Griffin • NL • 11 minutes
Brazilian performance artist Vanesa Cardoso, now living in Newfoundland, develops her clown persona using Richard Pochinko’s method of seven masks and six directions, exploring vulnerability and what makes us human.
Aquaponik
Director: Virginie Bluzat • France • 16 minutes
On her final day of community service at an environmental organization, young offender Romy discovers aquaponics and dreams of bringing her urban housing project to life.
Pegasus
Director: Jean-Erasme Giudicelli • France • 12 minutes
In the middle of a country road Victor, a stressed out business man sees a horse running away from its owner. He decides to get out of the car to approach.
Runtime: 1h30