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A new short film, There Lived the Colliers by Nelson MacDonald (NSI Drama Prize), premieres at the Edinburgh International Film Festival this June.

In Nova Scotia between 1850 and 1920 thousands of wooden duplexes were built by coal companies to house the influx of workers from Europe and the Caribbean. Now, decades since the last mine closed, the houses remain.

Nelson’s short experimental documentary shot on 16mm relies on images of the simple homes to suggest the personality, resilience, hardship and history of the working-class people who have inhabited this place for the last 150 years.

Inaugurated in 1947, the festival is the world’s longest continually-running film festival. The fest runs from June 21 to July 2.

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Shelly Quade, NSI Features First program manager, will be in Charlottetown for the PEI Screenwriters Bootcamp from June 3 to 7.

Hosted by Island Media Arts Coop (IMAC), PEI Screenwriters’ Bootcamp brings together emerging screenwriters and producers from Atlantic Canada for five days of intensive professional development and networking activities.

Shelly will present a session about NSI from 1:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. on June 5 but is also available for one-on-one meetings throughout the bootcamp. If you’re attending the event and would like to chat with Shelly about NSI and our training programs, drop her an email.

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