Newfoundland movie debuts in Halifax [Video]

A Newfoundland movie literally years in the making made its world debut at the Atlantic International Film Festival in Halifax this week.

“We filmed it every season, summer spring, winter,” said director Nik Sexton. “In the film there’s a boy whose face is in the beginning. He’s eight years old, then two minutes later in the film he’s 15 and it’s really the same boy.”

“Skeet” follows a young man returning from prison to his St. John’s neighbourhood and finding it full of Syrian refugees.

“The film is a redemption story,” Sexton. “He’s a bit of a fish out of water in his own home and it’s about an unlikely friendship in this most unlikely place.”

Sean Dalton stars as the lead and although he has no prior acting experience, Sexton thought he’d be great in the role.

“Nik just said, ‘Can you act like a skeet?’ A skeet is …