Vaida Nairn
Filmmaker & Photographer
FISHBOWL
Short Narrative Film, 17min
Black Shore Productions Inc.
Canada, 2022
Director: Vaida Nairn
Cast: Bridget Wareham, Mike Rowe, Michelle Lambert
Writers: Daniel Griffin, Vaida Nairn
Producer: Mike Hickey
DOP: Duncan de Young
Editor: Justin Simms
Composer: Steve Maloney
Nominations
Best Short Film, RS Film Fest, Bristol, UK, 2024
Best First Time Director, The Soho London Independent Film Festival, London, UK, 2024
Best Drama, The Soho London Independent Film Festival, London, UK, 2024
Best International Film, The Soho London Independent Film Festival, London, UK, 2024
Best Social Impact Film, The Soho London Independent Film Festival, London, UK, 2024
Best Short Film, Montreal Women Film Festival, Montreal, Canada, 2023
When the world locks down during the COVID-19 pandemic, a former dancer becomes further trapped in a toxic relationship with her emotionally abusive husband. Increasingly isolated and with only a goldfish as a friend, she is forced to choose between placating her husband and freeing herself.
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THE GOLDEN LEAGUE
Documentary Film Series, 65min, 6 Episodes
Black Shore Productions Inc. for Bell Fibe TV1
Canada, 2022-2023
Director & Producer: Vaida Nairn
Writers: Vaida Nairn, Michele Stamp
DOP: Rodrigo Iñiguez Becerril
Editor: Justin Simms
Composer: Steve Maloney
Every winter in St. John’s, Newfoundland, a group of women, largely new to the sport and ranging in age from late teens to seventies, meet once a week to play recreational ice hockey, learn new skills and forge friendships. With their passion for the game, daring nature, and good sense of humour these women prove that age is merely a number, and that anything is possible if you put your mind to it and have the right support.
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THE GAZE
Documentary Film, 9min
Canada, 2023
Director: Stacy Gardner
Writers: Stacy Gardner, Vaida Nairn
Producers: Stacy Gardner, Vaida Nairn
DOP: Duncan de Young
Editor: Justin Simms
Composer: Ian Foster
Through the eyes of a South Korean artist living in Newfoundland, Canada, Ginok Song, takes us on a journey through her paintings, and the wisdom gained through the female gaze.
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BALLAD OF NORTH WHALE
Short Narrative Film, 12 minutes
Black Shore Productions Inc.
Canada, 2023
Writer & Director: Ehsan Mohammadi
Producer: Vaida Nairn
Cast: Mohannad AlRefai, Pat Dempsey
DOP: Duncan de Young
Editor: Justin Simms
Composer: Ian Foster
An international student juggles his studies and multiple jobs in order to afford the high cost of living. His housemate also struggles financially having had recently lost his job as a whale tour guide. One day, the two young men and a couple of their friends go on a whale watching trip. As the group surveys the ocean in the hope of seeing the whales, the events take an unexpected turn.
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BEDLAMER
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhXa2e63RtY
Short Narrative Film, 15 minutes
Bedlamer Pictures Inc.
Canada, 2024
Writer & Director: Alexa Jerrett
Producers: Alexa Jerrett, Vaida Nairn
Cast: Rhiannon Morgan, Gracyn Rowe, Merin Rowe, Nathan Bugler, Harold "Poppy" Janes
DOP: Nigel Markham
Editor: Justin Simms
Composer: Ian Foster
Awards
Best Atlantic Short Film, Silver Wave Film Festival, Canada, 2024
Best Score, Hellifax Horror Film Festival, Canada, 2024
Nominations
Best Cinematography, Blood in the Snow Film Festival, Canada, 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.
73 SECONDS
Short Narrative Film, 9 minutes
Black Shore Productions Inc.
Canada, 2024
Writer & Director: Stacy Gardner
Producer: Vaida Nairn
Cast: Erika Dietz, Declan Foley, Maddie Hemeon, Malory Clarke
DOP: Duncan de Young
Editor: Justin Simms
Composer: Ian Foster
It's 1986, Shannon Crane means to be bound for a future she cannot know, on a day filled with possibility and hope. In her 7th grade class, Shannon has to reckon with the ordinary calamity of being herself after a simultaneous incident of being bullied, is caught between the extraordinary catastrophic event of the space challenger disaster, leaving a debris of searching, questioning. Where were you when you experienced your own undoing and becoming?