Bell Fibe TV1’s Vollies, CTV’s Sullivan’s Crossing and OUTtv’s Good Grief have each picked up four nominations for the 2024 Screen Nova Scotia Awards.

The 10th edition of the awards will take place on May 11 at the Bruce Guthro Theatre at Casino Nova Scotia in Halifax. This year two new awards will be introduced: the Screen Nova Scotia award for Outstanding Achievement in Screenwriting and the ACTRA Maritimes – Series Ensemble award.

Vollies (Canadian Content Studios), Sullivan’s Crossing (Topsail Entertainment) and Good Grief (Pumpkin Patch Productions) are competing for Best Television Series – Scripted, alongside Bell Fibe TV1’s Roll With It (Canadian Content Studios, pictured), which has picked up a total of two nods.

Vollies has picked up Outstanding Performance nominations for Jonathan Torrens and Trina Corkum and a Series Ensemble nod for Torrens, Mary Austin, Brian George and James Faulkner.

Sullivan’s Crossing has earned three Outstanding Performance nominations for Francine Deschepper, Perdida Brown and Shelley Thompson.

Good Grief, meanwhile, has picked up Outstanding Performance nods for Martha Irving and Mary-Colin Chisholm and Series Ensemble. Roll With It also earned a Series Ensemble nod

On the feature film side, Christie Will Wolf’s The Secret Gift of Christmas leads with three nominations.

The Secret Gift of Christmas (Waterstar Entertainment) is up for Best Feature Film and two ACTRA Maritimes Awards for Outstanding Performance for Aria Publicover and Ellie Cluett.

Also competing for Best Feature Film are Fawzia Mirza’s The Queen of My Dreams (Shut Up & Colour Pictures, Baby Daal Productions), Luke Sparke’s Bring Him to Me (One2One Pictures) and David Weaver’s Christmas Island (Picture Plant Limited, Vortex Media). The Queen of My Dreams earned an Outstanding Performance nod for Josh MacDonald, with Christmas Island‘s Britt Loder also vying for the award.

The Outstanding Performance nominees also include Bob Mann in Payback, David Light in Slay, David Rossetti and Ed Thomason in Remnants, Jordan Poole in Thanksgiving, Kirstin Howell in Moonshine, Martina Kelades in Trapped, Taylor Olson in 2GETHER 4EVER and Corkum in Trapped.

Rounding out the Series Ensemble nominees are 2Gether 4Ever and O’Dons.

Olson is up for several more honours, including Outstanding Achievement in Screenwriting for Bone Cage, nominated alongside Koumbie for Bystanders, Tieren Hawkins for King & Pawn, Stephanie Joline for Night Blooms and Rebecca Falvey for The Crevice.

Vying for Best Television Series – Unscripted are AMI-TV’s Disrupt (Rachel Bower Productions) and That Sex Show (Ocean Entertainment), APTN’s Spirit Talker (Tell Tale Productions) and History’s Vikings: American Quest (Arcadia Entertainment).

Nominees for for Best Documentary Film are Amy Mielke and Brittney Gavin’s Cold Dip (A + B Roll Films), Stephanie Joline’s I Place You Into the Fire (Venn Diagram Films), Nance Ackerman’s In the Quiet and the Dark (Sea to Sea Productions) and Jeff Miller’s Rooted (Ruby Tree Films).

Mielke and Gavin are also up for Best Nova Scotia Director, alongside Ackerman, Dawn Wells for the Bell Fibe TV1 unscripted series Creepy Cape Breton, Sheri Elwood for CBC’s Moonshine and Megan Wennberg for the feature doc Unsyncable.

This year’s Industry Champion Award will be awarded posthumously to television producer David MacLeod.

Huminah Huminah Animation’s Chip Chilla and Toopy and Binoo Movie, and Copernicus Studios’ Rock Paper Scissor are competing for the Best Animated Production award.

Contenders for Best Short Film include Dwelling (Wolf Hart Productions), Remnants (Barrett Hooper), Songs of Unama’ki (Ruby Tree Films) and Wolf (Hurricane Productions).

Additional award categories include Groundbreaking Performance, which will see Danielle Violette (Curse of the Reefer Beast) and Deva Station (Apocalyptic Kitchen) vie for the top honour.

The winners of the Film Crew Excellence and Community Recognition awards will be announced during the event.

Photo courtesy of Bell Media