The short will also show at Montreal's Festival du Nouveau Cinema this fall. By the fall of 2021, the local film biz was roaring back to life after a series of COVID-related shutdowns: Things we moving, sets were cropping up all over, and Screen Nova Scotia was announcing an industry-wide boom. Local filmmaker Leah Johnston was both an example of the buzz and completely outside of it, filming a 1970s-set short on 16mm film in Sambro, NS…