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Nigel Markham has lived in Newfoundland for twenty years, where, following a period of work with the CBC as a cameraman, he began to work on his own independent film projects. A number of these films have taken him to Labrador, including Place Of The Boss - Utshimatssits.
His directorial credits include the NFB productions, The Last Days Of Okak - an account of the devastating effects of the 1919 influenza epidemic on the Labrador Inuit, which won the Best Documentary award at the 1986 Atlantic Film Festival - and Taking Stock, a look at the history of the decline in the East Coast cod fishery, which won a Best Editing award at the 1994 Atlantic Film Festival.
Most Popular Nigel Markham Trailers
Total trailers found: 68
01 January 2012
In the 18th century, Moravian missionaries from eastern Europe settled among Inuit on the Labrador coast in eastern Canada.
15 September 2007
Inspired by the late poet Al Pittman's 'March Hare' late winter music and literary celebrations, director Barbara Doran-along with a clutch of her close friends, associates and artistic collaborators from St.
01 January 2010
Young Leia is abandoned by her mother when they receive an unsettling visit from Mister, Mom's old friend and current employer.
01 January 2006
Explores the intimidating terrain of girlhood by following three 12-year-olds over the period of one year.
30 December 2001
In 1999, Innu community members who, 40 years previously, had been forcibly relocated from their remote northern region of Labrador to established settlements in the province, return to Hebron to reminisce and reckon with the destructive impact the relocation had on their traditional ways of life and Indigenous identity.
19 October 2009
The Strangest Dream tells the story of Joseph Rotblat, the history of nuclear weapons, and the efforts of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs - an international movement Rotblat co-founded - to halt nuclear proliferation.
27 April 2023
Through a tapestry of reflection, rare footage and her own home, Inuk filmmaker Holly Andersen tells the little-known story of the forced relocation of an Inuit community from Hebron, north of Nain, to more southerly locations along the Labrador Coast.
01 July 2008
This feature-length documentary chronicles the Sundance ceremony brought to Eastern Canada by William Nevin of the Elsipogtog First Nation of the Mi'kmaq.
01 January 1994
The cod fishery off the east coast of Newfoundland was a way of life, the backbone of society -- until it collapsed.
16 June 2016
Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis falls in love with a fishmonger while working for him as a live-in housekeeper.
20 August 2011
Gerald S. Doyle was one of the first collectors of Newfoundland folk songs. He was also an avid cinematographer who left a collection of 12 hours of colour film, shot in outport Newfoundland and Labrador in the 1930's, 40's, and 50's.
15 September 2024
On the shores of a small fishing village lives a lonely settlement of men - capturing and domesticating otherworldly creatures that were never meant to be tamed.
01 January 2005
An exploration of the unique culture of Newfoundland's outports, the film revisits the PR coup that launched the animal rights movement onto the international stage: the 1977 Newfoundland visit, orchestrated by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, of French actress turned animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot to protest the area's ancestral sealing activities.
18 December 2001
An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.
16 October 2002
A riveting account of the tragic adventure of filmmaker Varick Frissell and his filming of "The Viking" (1931) and the tragic events that befell that adventure into early film-making.
15 September 2004
As debate in Canada and the world rages over health care, Hospital City offers a moving, human portrait of the people whom the issues touch most closely.
27 August 2000
It seems like everyone in Violet’s family dies at age 55. Her mother did, her father did, and as this movie opens Violet, played by Mary Walsh, learns that her brother, Leonard has also died.
14 March 2002
A beautiful baker teaches eager students the art of baking bread. Set to irresistibly funky dance music, Baking Lessons is a fun filled romp through a most unusual tutorial.
08 March 2009
On September 11th, 2001, 38 planes headed to New York City were diverted to Gander, Newfoundland, Canada.
15 September 2013
Christopher Richardson’s 1987 valedictory was misguided and cringe-inducing. It’s also a regret stinging decades later.
27 March 2006
During World War II, the usually sleepy town of Gander, Newfoundland is abuzz with activity as the stopover point for many flights between North America and the European Theater.
12 January 2003
Natalie, a gifted New York photographer, has a troubled past reflected in her art. When she struggles to make ends meet in the city, her agent, arranges an assignment in Boston for a considerable sum of money.
20 April 2008
Joanna, recently divorced, decided to return with her daughter to the town where she was born. There, she confronts the memories of the past when he meets his former lover, now married.
01 January 1996
This feature documentary examines the destruction of the tundra barrens of northern Canada for mineral mining, including that of Canadian diamonds.
14 September 2024
After being released from prison, Billy Skinner returns to his low-income neighbourhood feeling like a fish out of water; the area has changed dramatically, and what was once a predominantly white neighbourhood is now mostly occupied by refugee families.
01 January 1993
Another sensitive, thoughtful, and elegantly crafted film from home-grown McGee that speaks calmly to us of an alarming truth.
22 May 2004
On a calm Sunday morning in 1978 residents of Bell Island, Newfoundland hear an odd, high-pitched hum, immediately followed by a sudden and terrifying blast resounding for hundreds of miles.
14 September 2016
In the coldest waters surrounding Newfoundland's rugged Fogo Island, "people of the fish"—traditional fishers—catch cod live by hand, one at a time, by hook and line.
18 June 2016
When a single mom, facing eviction, is offered a night’s work, she unsuccessfully seeks a babysitter for her two small children.
01 January 1989
The fur trade is Canada's oldest industry, but today some people challenge the morality of killing animals for their fur.
17 February 2007
Directed by Michael Ostroff (Pegi Nicol: Something Dancing About Her (2004)) and produced by Mary Sexton (Gemini Award Winning Tommy.
01 January 2009
After 30 years of salt beef and baloney, the instinctively vegan Isabel hops a bay bus to the city supermarket.
01 September 2010
Folk music icon Buffy Sainte-Marie became internationally renowned with her protest song "Universal Soldier.
05 November 2003
Elliott Leyton, the subject of this riveting documentary by filmmaker Barbara Doran, can't help but be fascinating; that's because Leyton, who teaches at the Memorial University in Newfoundland, is also a valuable ally for law enforcement officials who need his expertise in psychology and criminal behavior to catch some of the most heinous criminals: serial killers.
16 June 2004
An exploration of music in the life, and writing, of James Joyce. Two Newfoundland actors, a Toronto opera singer and a New York Joycean scholar travel to Dublin and join forces with a group of Irish musicians to tell the story of music in the life, and writing, of the great Irish writer James Joyce.
01 January 1992
In 1992, an independent South African puppetry group, the African Research and Educational Puppetry Program, were invited by OXFAM (Canada) to bring their highly successful educational program 'Puppets Against Aids' to tour rural and regional Canada for twelve weeks.
30 June 2006
"Keeping Up with Cathy Jones" is a biographical romp through the life and times of this outrageously funny lady of stage, screen and television.
20 October 2000
Gerry Rogers, a filmmaker in Newfoundland, documents her personal battle with breast cancer. With her partner Peggy and lots of support from family and friends, she makes her way to recovery.
01 January 1996
In this Christmas drama, a boy and his family discover he is an elf.
15 September 1997
An Untidy Package sets out to dispel the popular misconception that Newfoundland women weren’t major players in the cod fishery before the moratorium, and that the federal compensation they received was only added to their husband’s claims to increase their family’s allowance.
29 September 2017
Bluefin is a tale of epic stakes set in “the tuna capital of the world.” In North Lake, Prince Edward Island, filmmaker John Hopkins tries to shed light on a baffling mystery: normally wary bluefin tuna no longer fear humans, and no one is quite sure why.
01 January 1991
The hunters are the Innu people and the bombers are the air forces of several NATO countries, which conduct low-level flights over the Innu's hunting terrain.
31 August 1988
A young girl in central Newfoundland becomes convinced she is connected to one of the last Beothuk people.
20 September 1992
One of three films in the “Hall Trilogy” with lots of local talent. Two women with roots in Newfoundland find themselves trapped together on a stalled subway train.
17 October 2023
Part oral history and part visual poem, Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher is the story of Evelyn Campbell, a trailblazer for an Inuit-led educational system in the small community of Rigolet, Labrador.
12 November 2021
Nalujuk Night is an up close look at an exhilarating, and sometimes terrifying, Labrador Inuit tradition.
05 October 2014
It's a fine, frail line between fantasy and reality when the doleful, downtrodden state of a couple's relationship unfurls against the backdrop of a feed of moose sausages and tea.
01 January 2002
Mummers and Masks is a one-hour documentary Christmas Special that explores the ageless world of mummers.
01 January 1985
This short documentary tells the story the once-thriving town of Okak, an Inuit settlement on the northern Labrador coast.
02 January 1986
Faustus is a clerk in St. John's at the Newfoundland Department of Education. He dreams of becoming ruler of Newfoundland and seceding from Canada.
01 October 2009
An unusual request forces Delph the barber to come to terms with possible loss.
31 December 1997
This documentary shares the stories of seven women from Newfoundland who married American soldiers. From the beginning of World War II to the end of the Cold War, Newfoundland housed some of the largest military bases outside of the U.
02 January 1992
A graduate history student returns to her native Newfoundland, searching for proof of a conspiracy surrounding the referendum that saw Newfoundland join Canada.
24 October 2011
As a broadcaster and politician, Don Jamieson provided an invaluable public service to Canadians and notably to the people of his home province, Newfoundland and Labrador.
25 September 1998
This documentary focuses on the goose hunt, a ritual of central importance to the Cree people of the James Bay coastal areas.
01 January 2001
This documentary portrays the front-line street workers who serve the needy under the umbrella of the Salvation Army.
25 October 2025
An elderly woman battles horrifying circumstances designed by her deteriorating mind - and in her darkest hours, flickers of her true self shine through.
19 November 2015
“Puffin Patrol” takes viewers into the world of the Atlantic puffin. Travel to remote locations where the puffin’s unique migration patterns and feeding habits are being studied.
01 January 2001
A tribute to Canadian comedy icon Tommy Sexton (1957-1993). A founding member of the Newfoundland comedy troupe CODCO Tommy died of complications from AIDS on December 13, 1993.
10 February 2000
Walker takes us on a personal journey into a world of myth and imagination that he learned from his grandmother.
