Derek Norman Movies

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....

Swallowed is a fictional story that spans the life of Mike Seaward, a fisherman in outport Newfoundland, Canada. An unemployed fisherman, he reflects...

Mary recounts to her daughter Eva the childhood story of when Mary and her father fell through the ice on a frozen pond.

This is the story of The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood, a surreal comedy about a lowly bureaucrat and his fantasies of becoming president of an...

Honey Reddigan is a celebrity at the Sweet Bea baking factory. She has just published her first romance novel, Carmen the Bee Keeper's Lover. Carmen,...

A graduate history student returns to her native Newfoundland, searching for proof of a conspiracy surrounding the referendum that saw Newfoundland...

A documentary about the Newfoundland fiddling legend Rufus Guinchard

A dad spends nine months rocking his baby to sleep nightly to keep her from crying. In the process, he loses weight because he is doing exercises as...

A young girl in central Newfoundland becomes convinced she is connected to one of the last Beothuk people. As she and her father search for her...

Jackie is a married woman whose husband has disappeared. As she deals with questions as to his whereabouts, her brother-in-law, Miles, arrives...

Lionel, a hapless romantic at the end of his rope, suddenly and inexplicably starts receiving roses in the mail. Somebody out there must be paying...

A woman (Lois Brown) who thinks money will solve her problems enlists the help of a homeless friend (Barry Newhook) to rob a bingo hall.

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...

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...

TV film made in St John's, Newfoundland for the CBC

Mike Jones and his siblings Andy and Cathy travel by helicopter from rural Newfoundland to a gala to make speeches congratulating TIFF on its...