Paul St. Amand, the Film Production alum who directed the award-winning VFS doc Parallels and the sumptuous period sci-fi short Grover’s Mill and produced Alibi Inc., has a new venture on the go. He’s producing and directing a series of webisodes for a political candidate in his native province of Novia Scotia.

Bedford Councillor candidate Tim Outhit is getting praise for the project (here’s but one example, calling it “a stroke of genius”), dubbed TimTV. You can see the webisodes for yourself here.

Paul attended the Whistler Film Festival in late November for winning the Canadian Reflections Award at the ‘07 Air Canada enRoute Student Film Festival. “There was a lot of talk about opportunities to produce web content,” he says. “I had no idea I’d be diving into that field so soon.”

Paul thinks it’s worth pursuing. “I’m hoping I can carve out a niche and do similar grassroots viral video for other politicians – provincial or federal elections would be nice. I’m sure there’s also a way to make this process work for businesses and other organizations too.”

“For one thing, it’s cheap. The crew is just me and my camera.”

Update: Paul writes in to say, “Our underdog candidate surprised everyone and won the election tonight”!