P.E.I. short film to be screened in New York

A P.E.I. film company is getting a big opportunity to travel to New York City.

Tiny Town Media's film Desperately Seeking Signal was selected for screening at the 21 Islands International Short Film Festival.

The film was the first the company made, and they did it without a budget.

"It's a dream to make it and have people watch it and in somewhere like a media epicentre like New York, it's beyond what we imagined," said Jenna MacMillan, owner of Tiny Town Media who is also an actor and producer on the film.

The film is about a lonley 911 operator whogets a call from a woman stranded in the middle of nowhere. They build a bond.

The film has gone to other festivalsas far away as Australia, but the makers haven't been able to go with it. The New York festival focuses on stories from island nations and communities.

Thom Smalley, co-director of the film, says going to the festival is a good networking opportunity.

"Film festivals can be such wonderful places, because it's filled with so many creative minds and a lot of times it's not the big budget filmmakers that are there, it's the small budget film makers, the micro-budget, the no-budget filmmakers," he said.

"It's really exciting to go along and meet other people who work with basically nothing, no money and manage to create these wonderful films."

Desperately Seeking Signal plays at the festival on Dec. 10.

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