Still from 100 Short Stories
Still from 100 Short Stories
 

100 Short Stories

by Neal Livingston
Predatory capitalism, renewable energy, and the fight against fracking, in an often humorous exploration of contemporary life in Atlantic Canada.
2016  ·  1h10m  ·  Canada
English, French
English, French subs
About the Film
With his filmmakers typical irreverence, Livingston interweaves tales of predatory capitalism, eco-activism, and contemporary life in Atlantic Canada, engaging in an offbeat and often humorous exploration of energy policy, governance, and regional culture, in a diaristic collage of entrepreneurship and environmentalism. The film presents a first-person account of a years long struggle to develop Black River Wind a renewable energy project, and overcoming an attempted hostile takeover. Meanwhile, the local citizens of Inverness County band together to defeat oil and gas drilling and fracking coming onto Cape Breton Island.
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Festivals and Awards
2017
Cinema Verde International Film & Arts Festival, Energy Award
Producer
Neal Livingston
Writer
Neal Livingston
About the Director

Neal Livingston

Neal Livingston is a filmmaker, director, and producer with a long filmmaking history. His films have been broadcast extensively, primarily in Canada, and also in the UK, USA, and Australia. Many of his productions have been seen at festivals around the world where he has been an invited guest. Livingston makes political documentaries on environmental issues, and portraits of people and communities. Many of his films have humourous dimensions. Neal Livingston began making documentaries when he finished his BFA in film in 1976. Between 1978 and 1994, four of Neal’s documentaries were screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City weekly film series. The films screened at the MOMA were Budworks, Water Power, Herbicide Trials, and Both Sides Of The Wire.
Retrospectives of Livingston’s work were held at the Cinematheque Quebecoise in Montreal for 2 nights in 2001, and at the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Prince Edward Island in 1998. Two of Neal Livingston’s films, Michel in a Suête and Snow on the Lake were selected for screening in the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad Digital Edition during the winter Olympics. 100 Short Stories (2016) is Livingston’s first documentary feature, about predatory capitalism, renewable energy, and the fight against fracking on Cape Breton Nova Scotia.

Click Here to read Livingston’s essay on creative activism.

 
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