A Small Fortune is a 2021 Canadian crime drama film, written and directed by Adam Perry. The film stars Stephen Oates as Kevin Doucette, a man living in a small village in Prince Edward Island who makes a subsistence living harvesting sea moss on the coast; resisting the urging of his wife Sam (Liane Balaban) that he leave the province to look for more stable and well-paying work, one day he finds a large stash of money on the beach and hides it for himself, only to be drawn into danger when Troy (Joel Thomas Hynes) arrives looking for it.The cast also includes Matt Cooke and Andrea Bang as police officers.The film, Perry's feature directorial debut, was an expansion of his earlier short film A Blessing from the Sea, and received funding from Telefilm Canada in 2019.The film premiered at the FIN Atlantic Film Festival in September 2021, and was screened at the Charlottetown Film Festival in October. It was subsequently screened at the 2022 Manchester Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Screenplay, and at the 2022 Canadian Film Festival, before going into commercial release in April 2022.