
Person
Rhonda Buckley
Production
Biography
Rhonda Buckley is a Newfoundland filmmaker who makes films with a feminist point of view. Buckley is the writer of feature films Sparkle and Shine, Take Hold, Heart Troubles and Joan and Sadie (Telefilm Canada). Buckley is an award-winning filmmaker of the short films; Surrounded by Water (FIN, YFF, SJIWFF, FeFF), Terranova Matadora (Hot Docs 2016), Avon Ladies Rural Style and Elfreda. Surrounded by Water, on music legend Joan Morrissey, was shortlisted for best dramatic short at the Yorkton Film Festival. Terranova Matadora (BravoFact), based on a Newfoundland woman bullfighter screened at Hot Docs 2016 and Avon Ladies Rural Style also screened nationally. Rhonda created art installations for over 10 years with exhibitions in Vancouver, New York, San Francisco, and Scotland including: Barred, King of the Castle, Peep Show and TV Talk Show Live, funded by Canada Council for the Arts. Rhonda curated an extensive exhibition for The Rooms in 2010, James Andersen: 50 Years of Taking Pictures that was co-produced with Catharyn Andersen and the Nunatsiavut Government based on James Andersen’s film collection from the 1950’s in Makkovik, Labrador.
Known for
Purgatory
Assistant Production Coordinator

Atlantic
Production Coordinator

Hangashore
Assistant Production Coordinator

Crackie
Producer

Vocation
Director

Last Love Letter
Producer

The Silent Planet
Art Department Coordinator

Terra Nova Matadora
Self
People Who Stay
Director

Surrounded by Water
Director
Filmography
- 2025Last Love LetterProducer
- 2025HangashoreAssistant Production Coordinator
- 2024SkeetProduction Assistant
- 2024The Silent PlanetArt Department Coordinator
- 2023ElfredaWriter
- 2020Surrounded by WaterDirector
- 2016AtlanticProduction Coordinator
- 2015Terra Nova MatadoraSelf
- 2013Hold FastProducer's Assistant
- 2013VocationDirector
- 2009CrackieProducer
- 2009The Real MatriarchDirector
- 2008Down to the DirtProduction Coordinator
- 2008SpoiledProducer
- 2008People Who StayDirector
- 2007Diamonds in a BucketProducer
- 2006Stealing Mary: Last of the Red IndiansProduction Coordinator
- 2006James Andersen: Over 50 Years of Taking PicturesDirector
- 2004Bloomsday CabaretAssistant Production Coordinator
- —PurgatoryAssistant Production Coordinator
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