The Nickel Independent Film Festival

DIY SCIFI 2026 YouTube premiere on Monday June 29 at 7pm NDT! 🚀🚀🚀 youtube.com/@nickelfilm DIY SCIFI 2026: We dared people across Newfoundland and Labrador to make a short sci-fi film over 10 days and 14 brilliant sci-fi shorts were made! Join us in the live chat as the films play. Featuring: 01 - Human Farm 02 - MicroMonde 03 - Carpooling with Vic to the End of the Universe 04 - Buried Memories 05 - Back to Ones 06 - Saacnia 07 - The Device 08 - we are a dream the cosmos is having 09 - First Contact 10 - Slipworm 11 - Re-Life Inc. 12 - Microwaver 13 - Superior Vena Cava 14 - Brian; or, Brain

We're so sad it's the last day of the Nickel! But it's not over yet! Today we have thee excellent events all at the LSPU Hall. 1:00pm — Crash Course in 16mm Film. A free hands-on workshop with Jérémy Gagnon (Pique-nique). Load a Bolex, learn exposure, shoot portraits of each other on 100ft of black-and-white film. No prior experience needed. LSPU Cox & Palmer Second Space. 2:30pm — Labrador in Focus. Films from and about Labrador — youth-made mockumentaries from the Sheshatshiu Innu School and Mealy Mountain Collegiate, a portrait of an Innu knowledge holder, and a feature documentary on the Labrador Creative Arts Festival. We ❤️ Labrador. LSPU Hall. 7:00pm — Striking Out The Boys — world premiere! A feature documentary from director Kelly Meadus about Newfoundlander Jaida Lee, who at 16 became the first woman to play baseball at the Canada Games, plus two great short films. LSPU Hall. Tickets and full schedule at nickelfestival.com!

THE LABRADOR CREATIVE ARTS FESTIVAL!! This tender documentary screens alongside several other docs & student-made films, TODAY(!!), Sunday June 28, 2026 at 2:30pm. Thank you to the @nickelfestival for bringing the Big Land a little closer 🖤

Saturday at the Nickel! Four events today, all at the LSPU Hall: 1:00pm — Making Your First "Real Money" Short Film. A free workshop with Michael Peers and Yasmine Majchrzak, fresh off their JETS Initiative win at Berlinale, on what the jump from a friends-with-a-camera short to a properly-resourced one actually looks like. LSPU Cox & Palmer Second Space. No registration required. 2:30pm — People's History. Documentary shorts on politics, memory, language, caregiving, survival. NL politician Lorraine Michael, a francophone storyteller on the Port-au-Port, an Inuk artist receiving traditional tuniit, a Gaza fishing doc, a quiet father-son portrait at a Gaspésie motel. LSPU Hall. 5:30pm — In Conversation: Growing Local On-Screen Comedy. Dana Puddicombe and Mike Fardy with host Matt Wright. Free. LSPU Cox & Palmer Second Space. 7:00pm — Hope After All. Short films about finding human connection in surprising places. A photographer's cross-generational NL friendship, two welders watching something impossible in the sky, two women bonding at an Indian restaurant in Paris, an investigation of Vietnamese refugees who became extras in Apocalypse Now. LSPU Hall. For screening tickets visit the box office or nickelfestival.com

Yesterday's Page to Performance Film Lab presented by @ruthlesslawless was such a blast! Thanks to everyone for coming out and putting work on its feet.

These three lovely short films—“S’ils sont pas morts ils sont encore vivants (If they haven’t died, they’re still alive)”, “The Lines She Carries,” & “Lorraine”—screen at 2:30pm on Saturday, June 27 at the 2026 @nickelfestival as part of the program “PEOPLE’S HISTORY.”