Charlottetown Film Festival opens with boot camp and ends Scary Good

The Charlottetown Film Festival celebrates its second year this weekend, featuring dozens of films from Atlantic Canadian directors.

Festival organizer Cheryl Wagner told CBC's Island Morning the festival is hosting a full spectrum of films: feature length and shorts, fiction and documentary. Wagner said she was impressed with what filmmakers brought last year, and has built on that this year.

"What I saw, and what I'm bringing to this festival, is the depth of talent ready and emerging to make feature films," she said.

The festival opens Friday with a dozen short films by alumni of the P.E.I. Screenwriters Bootcamp

On Saturday the results of the 1K Wave Atlantic Challenge will be presented: five feature films all made on a $1,000 budget.

The final day of the festival will have several sessions. It starts with the Oscar-nominated feature Song of the Sea, following by a program of 12 short films.

In the late afternoon Sunday there will be two feature-length documentaries. Zimbelism studies the work of photographer George Zimbel, Bluefin attempts to unravel the mysteries of the bluefin tuna fishery.

The festival closes with Scary Good, 10 short films suitable for Halloween.

All screenings are at City Cinema in downtown Charlottetown.

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