Veronica Dymond
Director
Veronica Dymond is an award-winning writer from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Her work is known for being queer, playful, silly, and honest - except when it's not. Since 2013, Vero has been a working stand-up comedian, performing with Newfoundland comedy titans like Mary Walsh, Shaun Majumder, and Matt Wright. She was a two-time finalist of Last Comic Standing NL, is featured on the JFL Originals album "Infinity Plus Pizza," and in 2023 she wrote her first solo show "I Kill Myself: A Live Comedy Show." A skilled storyteller, Dymond has written for the page, stage, and screen. She won an Arts & Letters Award in 2012 for her short story Au nom du pere and "I Kill Myself" was shortlisted for the NL Fresh Fish Award in 2024. Her writing has been featured on Bell Fibe TV, CBC, Cracked, Riddle Fence Magazine, and Word Magazine. Her plays, sketches, and films have appeared in festivals like Toronto Sketch Fest, NL Sketch Fest, the St. John's Shorts Festival, the Halifax Animation Festival, the ReelOUT Queer Film Festival, and the Nickel Independent Film Festival. She is a multi-disciplinary artist and works in stand-up, sketch, shorts, music, film, animation, prose, and comics.
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MovieDocumentaryAnimationMedia mogul, athlete, creator of the psychedelic superhero Captain Newfoundland, and an activist against his home province joining Confederation: Geoff Stirling was all these things and more. To do justice to a character as complex as this film’s protagonist, Mike Feehan turns the camera on himself and his co-director Jamie Miller as they weave together archival footage, animation, and fantastical recreations from Stirling's experimental 1970s late-night TV show, all very in keeping with NTV's original broadcast mission. Captain Newfoundland is an illuminating and wildly entertaining portrait of a complex man and his impact on the province that, according to Stirling, may or may not be the tip of the long-lost island of Atlantis.
- MovieScience FictionComedy
A mother isn’t sure she can accept her daughter’s new paramour in this animated short originally created for last year’s Nickel Sci-Fi Challenge. St. John’s comedian Veronica Dymond made this one, so you know it’s funny and a little bit weird.