Our animation featuring Scotty Horsman and Tony Smith from 96.9 New Country FM in Moncton was selected to be featured at the Charlottetown Film Festival in October 2021.
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Steve strikes a deal with Scotty and Tony to help promote his latest product. It’s all laughs as Scotty Horsman and Tony Smith join the fun at the cafe.
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Travis Furlong plays a set at the Coffee Cafe — but he has trouble playing after losing his red hat.
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Steve comes up with a new promotion: Seniors’ Day at the Coffee Cafe. The new clientele isn’t what he expected though. This is the full animation including parts 1, 2 and 3.
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In 1864, Canada East and Canada West are locked in a hot political dispute, and their proposed solution includes the Maritimes–a new broader Confederation for the North American British colonies. But a fiery New Brunswick politician named Albert James Smith resists the resolution, which he thinks will have dire economic and political consequences for his province. FURTHER READING Looking For …
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I once pitched a full-length movie idea about New Brunswick historical politician Albert J. Smith to producers at a screenwriting boot camp a few years ago. The response was ironic (beyond the obvious—that historical movies are too expensive), especially given the subject matter. “It’s not a national story,” they said. Excuse me? Not a national story? How Smith represented the …
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This is a large project. To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation, we put the Coffee Cafe on hiatus and decided to produce a modest 3-4 minute animation about New Brunswick’s history around Canadian Confederation. Our plan was to focus on Albert J. Smith who led an anti-confederate government in New Brunswick in 1865, thus holding up confederation for a …
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Look what came in the mail today! An advance copy of “Looking for Bootstraps-Economic Development in the Maritimes” by Donald J. Savoie.I had the pleasure of speaking with Professor Savoie about one of the topics of this book–the anti-confederation movement in the Maritimes between 1864-66, led in New Brunswick by Albert James Smith. This will be the focus of Codepoet …
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