Cody Westman

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Cody Westman

Place of birth

Smithers, British Columbia, Canada

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Cody Westman is a director/shooter in St. John's NL Canada who owns and operates Cats Eye Cinema, making corporate and commercial videos as a day job, and has directed 3 short films to date (fiction and documentary). Cody was born in Smithers, British Columbia and discovered film as an extra in Montreal in 2000. He bought his first camera in 2013 and went straight to work on a short documentary. 2018 marked a new high as Cody's short film Casey was selected by Telefilm Canada to be featured in Canada's Not Short On Talent at the Festival De Cannes in Cannes, France. His feature documentary Hell Or Clean Water won 2 Audience Choice Awards at Hot Docs 2021 and now airs on Documentary Channel a…

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Casey poster
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Casey's mother ensures her daughter receives the education, protection, and loving care little girls need. But an altercation with some local schoolgirls reveals that Casey's life is based on a lie.

Casey

2017

Casey poster
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Casey's mother ensures her daughter receives the education, protection, and loving care little girls need. But an altercation with some local schoolgirls reveals that Casey's life is based on a lie.

Casey

2017

Hell or Clean Water poster
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In what appears to be a Sisyphean task, Newfoundland diver Shawn Bath has devoted himself to cleaning up the ocean floor one rotting tire at a time. He's already removed 15,000 pounds of garbage single-handedly. Through decades of commercial fishing and tourism, these Atlantic harbours became trash receptacles treated with an out-of-sight, out-of-mind attitude. Driven by passion and held back by bureaucracy, this inspiring story highlights the enormity of human-caused environmental damage and the power of an individual's determination to make the world a better place.

Hell or Clean Water

2021

Hell or Clean Water poster
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In what appears to be a Sisyphean task, Newfoundland diver Shawn Bath has devoted himself to cleaning up the ocean floor one rotting tire at a time. He's already removed 15,000 pounds of garbage single-handedly. Through decades of commercial fishing and tourism, these Atlantic harbours became trash receptacles treated with an out-of-sight, out-of-mind attitude. Driven by passion and held back by bureaucracy, this inspiring story highlights the enormity of human-caused environmental damage and the power of an individual's determination to make the world a better place.

Hell or Clean Water

2021

It Could Be You poster
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A depressed man learns that fortune comes in many forms, and at any moment it can slam into you like a speeding car. Or in this case, an SUV.

It Could Be You

2017

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Deadline

2015

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Deadline

2015

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Deadline

2015

That Little Room: The Story of Erin's Pub poster
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A short documentary about the first real Irish pub in St. John's, Newfoundland that was opened in 1986 by musician Ralph O'Brien and sold in 2012 to Chris Andrews of Shanneyganock and Bob Hallett of Great Big Sea. The film follows the new owners as they are forced to rebuild from scratch after a major flood.

That Little Room: The Story of Erin's Pub

2014

That Little Room: The Story of Erin's Pub poster
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A short documentary about the first real Irish pub in St. John's, Newfoundland that was opened in 1986 by musician Ralph O'Brien and sold in 2012 to Chris Andrews of Shanneyganock and Bob Hallett of Great Big Sea. The film follows the new owners as they are forced to rebuild from scratch after a major flood.

That Little Room: The Story of Erin's Pub

2014

That Little Room: The Story of Erin's Pub poster
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A short documentary about the first real Irish pub in St. John's, Newfoundland that was opened in 1986 by musician Ralph O'Brien and sold in 2012 to Chris Andrews of Shanneyganock and Bob Hallett of Great Big Sea. The film follows the new owners as they are forced to rebuild from scratch after a major flood.

That Little Room: The Story of Erin's Pub

2014