Screenplays

When I started work on the TV series 'Emily of New Moon,' the entire experience was exhilarating, and I knew film and tv sets were where I needed to be. The biggest thrill of all was having the proverbial lightbulb go on – when I saw the scripts for the show, I realized they were written the way I 'thought,' which was in a very visual manner. I went home and bought my first computer for $600, an old second hand something or other, and wrote my first screenplay. 

Since then, I've had the great fortune to form a production company called Mighty Ocean Film Inc. with islanders Rick Gibbs and Nicolle Morrison, and shoot my first feature drama, Still The Water. I also worked with NFB producers Rohan Fernando and Annette Clarke to shoot Then Sings My Soul as part of the Reimagining The Islands Series.

I’m always working on new projects; stay tuned!

Beautiful Jane

A film shoot along the North Shore of Prince Edward Island serves as the setting for this tale of visible and buried scars. Beautiful Jane tells the story of Jane and William, a couple trying to salvage a marriage after the possibility of death forces them to take another look at life.

After a long and debilitating battle with Crohn’s Disease, Jane, angry and resentful, lands at the Charlottetown Airport to join her Film Director husband William as he tries to 'make good' for the decade of meaningless films he's made by memorializing his life through the creation of a self-penned film. Jane sinks further and further into herself, even going so far as to allow William his sexual freedom because of her inability to find any beauty left within herself worth sharing.

Jane is drawn to Eli, a young Mi’kMaq Native Canadian working as the shoot's wrangler, whose painful memory of a pretty young mother lost forever to the dark abyss of suicide, is endured through the beauty he finds in the animals and nature that surround him. Eli draws the older man's wife into a new understanding of what it means to allow oneself to be loved, despite physical and psychological scarring. 

Jack and Emma

Emma is a lonely single mother whose romantic infatuation with World War II is her safe place, her wall to hide behind. The owner of a small rural conenience store, she divides her time between running the business and shuttling her busy son to and from hockey practice.

 When Jack comes to town and gets a job with the work crew building the Confederation Bridge, he’s running from a lonely marriage. Emma considers embarking on an affair with him, but her faith in God gets in the way. Still, she questions that faith and whether God has her best interests at heart, when it seems Jack has a lot of earthly good to offer both she and her son. 

But soon Jack must make a choice – which comes first, his obligations as a husband and father, or the sad eyes of a woman into whose heart he has invariably strayed?