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Atlantic Canada — Featured
The Canadian Bioscope Company was founded in Halifax in 1912, made one of Canada's earliest commercial feature films and disappeared during the First World War.
ANCHOR Fest is underway in Charlottetown, with film screenings, concerts, comedy shows and an industry conference running through October 18.
Charlottetown rock band Gizmo released its debut full-length, All Your Worships, on Oct 2, 2026 through Victory Pool Records, moving into the record’s first week with an Atlantic Canadian tour beginning this week.
Netflix’s Below was filmed in Newfoundland in 2025. The strongest records support St. John’s and the surrounding metro area, Brigus South and Pouch Cove as production locations, while provincial documents tie the production more specifically to Brigus South Harbour and planned filming at Marine Park in Pouch Cove
Eight artists and arts contributors from across Canada have received the 2026 Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts, with this year’s recipients working across textiles, film, installation, photography, digital media and art history.
Natasha Henstridge was born in Springdale, Newfoundland and Labrador, in 1974, and lived with her family in nearby South Brook before they moved west to Fort McMurray when she was five.
Atlantic Canada — Recent
Netflix’s Newfoundland-set thriller Below has spent two consecutive weeks atop Netflix’s global English-language television chart, generating a reported 38.2 million equivalent full-series views between October 8 and 18. Its 21.2 million views in the second chart week set a new single-week record for a Canadian Netflix original title, according to the streamer.
After everything that happened at Little Pot Rock, Calvin and Wade are back on a boat together, surrounded by blue water beneath a blue sky.
Below opens on a beautiful, peaceful sunrise, with Calvin Penney apparently waking from a dream about being underwater.
Episode 4 opens with Calvin Penney heading straight for the RSV Sir John Franklin, demanding to know where Wade is.
Episode 3 of Below opens with Wade back out near the iceberg, despite everything that happened to Jerry Biles.
If “movie” means a feature-length dramatic film produced in Canada, the answer is Evangeline, filmed in Nova Scotia in 1913 and released in 1914.
Episode 2 of Below picks up in the harbour at Snooks Arm, where a diver is searching the water around the wreck of Jerry Biles' boat.
Hudson & Rex returns for Season 9 on Monday, Oct. 5, 2026, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Citytv, with John Reardon back as Detective Charlie Hudson. Rogers Sports & Media has ordered 12 episodes for the new season.
Snooks Arm in Netflix’s BELOW is fictional. There is, however, a real Newfoundland community usually written Snook’s Arm in Statistics Canada and provincial records, and its relocation history overlaps with the broader resettlement history creator Jesse McKeown has drawn on for the series.
Netflix’s Below centres on fisherman Calvin Penney and his family in the Newfoundland community of Snooks Arm.
Ice Cove doesn't exist, although much of what viewers see around it does. North of North is set in a fictional Nunavut community, but the Netflix comedy was filmed in Iqaluit, where local residents appeared on screen, worked with the production and took part in a mentorship program that provided experience in television production.
In Netflix’s Below, fisherman Calvin Penney lives in Snooks Arm, Newfoundland, where the local way of life is changing and an unidentified creature has begun terrorizing the community from the water.
Four decades after Megan Follows starred as Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables, Netflix has cast her in another screen story tied to Prince Edward Island.
Perry Chafe grew up in Petty Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador, a small fishing community.
Netflix is heading to Newfoundland for Below, a six-episode creature thriller starring Josh Hartnett, Mackenzie Davis and Charlie Heaton.
A house is being towed across the water at the beginning of Below, Netflix’s new six-episode creature thriller set in Newfoundland. Jesse McKeown, the series’ creator and showrunner, has connected that image directly to Newfoundland and Labrador’s history of resettlement, when residents left small and isolated communities for larger centres.
Prince Edward Island filmmaker Jenna MacMillan’s feature directorial debut, The Snake, is making its Canadian premiere as the Atlantic Gala at the Atlantic International Film Festival in Halifax.