Monica's News

Dir: Pamela Gallant, Canada, 2026, Drama.
Polly Gallant-McLean, Kevin Kincaid, Allegra Fulton.
Best Director Winner, Screen Nova Scotia Awards.
Set in a conservative Catholic village in Nova Scotia in the early 1970s, this assured debut feature is the coming-of-age story of a precocious nine-year-old who stumbles across a clue to a murder on her paper route. "Pamela Gallant has been quietly making a mark on the Canadian film industry as an editor and director, and with Monica's News, Gallant makes her narrative feature-length debut... Her film follows a tenacious nine-year-old girl, Casey, who is hellbent on changing the world until tragedy strikes. Filmed with a warmth that betrays the challenges Casey confronts, Gallant boldly displays an artistry and gentle nuance for storytelling that finds similarities in tone with Rob Reiner's Stand by Me." - Exclaim! “Monica’s News is the sort of understated storytelling that sneaks up on you. It’s an unexpectedly powerful depiction of childhood and the way children move through the world, observing everything, even though they don’t always fully understand what they see... As Casey, Polly Gallant-Mclean is completely believable as a ‘70s kid, all deference in the company of adults but otherwise free-spirited and still very much a child at age nine... Her impressive performance anchors the storytelling.  Monica’s News is an affecting drama that meticulously recreates the era.”  - Liz Braun, Original Cin

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 85 min

Rating: PG