Joel MacDonald and Kyle Simpson Joel MacDonald and Kyle Simpson

At Confound Films’ office, atop Receiver Coffee on Charlottetown’s historic Victoria Row, there is a unique piece of furniture.

It’s a coffee table made from the trunk of a 100-year-old maple tree that filmmaker Kyle Simpson remembers playing under in his grandparent’s Walthen Drive home.

It’s a beautiful slice of Simpson family history, finished smooth as glass by local furniture maker Brodye Chappell, who happens to be one of the subjects of a new Confound Films video – Do it Here – by Simpson and his partner Joel MacDonald.

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