Official Selections
Bedroom Scares
Anthology of horror stories set in a series of bedrooms.
Web Series (Pilot)
Womb Envy
This series is created with Integrated Described Video (IDV) making it equally accessible for a blind or partially-sighted audience through its scripting, production and sound design. Mark is stuck in a rut. Nearly 30 years old, he is wanting more than the tired beat of the Toronto gay dance floors and is seeking purpose in life. His childhood friend Mary is pregnant and desperate to escape the clutches of her religious zealot mother, Dorothy, and the small town they grew up in. Showing up on Mark’s door one day after years of separation, Mary convinces him to pretend to be her baby daddy, since he was the only man her mother ever approved of, after reminding him of the years she spent being his “fake girlfriend” as a teen. They create rules to ensure the success of their half-baked idea, which splinters Mark’s fragile queer ego to create a drag queen apparition - The Divine - who constantly fights against this new assimilation to heteronormativity. Confusing things even more, Mark soon falls head over heals in love with their lamaze instructor, Patrick, which throws a huge wrench in their charade for Dorothy. Internalizing the chaos in his life, Mark develops a rare condition known as couvade syndrome, bizarrely displaying pregnancy symptoms which become increasingly more difficult to hide, even from his new crush Patrick, who is partially-sighted. Everything in their lives quickly unravels, leaving Mark and Mary to pick up the pieces in time to welcome their babies into the world and into a new nuclear family.
Web Series (Season)
Beyond The Furthest Stars
An Actual Play podcast using the Stars Without Number System. In this sci-fi adventure we meet Polaris, a human orphan raised by AI robots, Zahn, a grizzled mechanic running from his past, Marty, a kind hearted newly graduated doctor, Bruce, the gentle giant alien chef, and Ollie, the recently sentient AI bot; They all come together by circumstance to form an unlikely found family in a galaxy full of danger, action, and excitement. Blast off with us on the 1st and 15th of every month, Beyond the Furthest Stars!
Podcast (Actual Play)
HOT ANGRY MOM
Marie is a people-pleasing New York City mom who thought she’d have money, success, and respect by middle age. Instead, she’s working too many survival jobs and failing to meet her family’s expectations. But Marie’s the kind of woman you can count on to swallow her anger and put on a bright fucking smile. When she gets an opportunity to step into the role of a sexy powerful Goddess, Marie thinks she’s finally getting what she deserves. But her world is turned upside down when a video of her unleashing her anger becomes a viral sensation. AndersonVision says, "HOT ANGRY MOM intertwines elements of ‘Fleabag’ and ‘I May Destroy You’, offering a raw portrayal of a mother’s life. It humorously yet powerfully guides the audience through Marie’s self-discovery, as she learns to acknowledge her anger and sexual power, aspects she was previously conditioned to suppress." Film Threat says, “Tonally, Hot Angry Mom finds a good balance between the comedic nature of Marie’s story and finding authentic touchpoints to moments of rage women face every day. In turn, Mel House gives an empathetic performance in the serious moments without ever letting the comedy undermine her story.” - Alan Ng OC Movie Reviews says, "“Wonderful animated and graphic elements add a stylistic flair to the pilot which really stood out. If you remember the movies Tank Girl or Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, this fun animation is similar to that.”
Web Series (Season)
Re: Dracula
Re: Dracula takes the famous horror tale, breaks it up chronologically (every entry of this epistolary novel has a date), and sends the story directly to your podcatcher as it happens.
Podcast Concept
The Atomless
Using the Starfinder RPG system, The Atomless is an improvised Audio Drama following the rag-tag crew of The Patchwork, a group of broken people navigating a broken universe in search of answers. Join Ayg, the smuggler; Azhaam, the ex-rebellion leader; Dr. Theriac, the religious scientist; and Skye, the radical teenager as they chart their way across the Atomless Sea in this ongoing Starfinder Podcast.
Podcast (Actual Play)
You're the Last One
Tommy Baxter and his mother have returned to Silver Creek for the first time since - well, since before Tommy was even born. Though the odd little town welcomes them with open arms, and Tommy finds himself instantly befriended by a quirky gang of local teenagers, it isn’t long before he begins to suspect that something darkly familiar might be stalking through the shadows of his ancestral home. Filled with cryptic warnings, mislaid traps, underhanded allies, and dripping jaws, You’re the Last One takes inspiration from the classics and innovations in modern audio storytelling to immerse you, the listener, in everything you love about a creature feature. Please be advised that this is an immersive audio experience - we recommend using headphones for maximum effect.
Podcast (Fiction)
ABULIVIA (trailer)
Abulivia is a neologism that means "away from the olive trees". Since Italy was unified, things have not been very good for the south of the nation. It has been plundered of all its wealth and has gradually become the poorest area of the country. So for about 160 years many people have been seeking fortune in the rich north of Italy where they are sometimes exploited, but abandoning their beautiful homeland. Abulivia wants to tell the story of one of these guys from the south, who returned to his country of origins to help his family in the traditional olives harvest that takes place every year in the months from november to january. The protagonist of the story is a high school graduate, a multiple graduate and has even attended very expensive masters, but in the northern Italy the only job he has found is in a call center. The visit to his native land will represent a catharsis for him, as it is in his agricultural work that he will discover his roots and the beauty of a lost world in which there are still values. All the storytelling revolves around emptiness, void understood both in the Buddhist sense but also in the sense of lack of values. A sad man stares at a large hole in the ground, it is all that remains of a beautiful tree with immense foliage that stood there the day before. The old farmer tells the camera how a monumental olive tree was stolen by bad people who sell all the trees in the south to the north, The farmer tried to defend the tree but the bad guys beat him. They then resold the olive tree to wealthy gentlemen who live in the north and wanted to beautify their garden. But we know the climate of the north is not suitable for this type of trees so they are doomed to death, while the south is increasingly impoverished.
Trailer
A Place of Peace: A Century at the Ranch
In the quiet hills of Montana lies the West Butte Ranch, a place with a deep and meaningful 100 year legacy. This land has been the home of a beloved family for generations. Everyone here finds a sense of peace and belonging, surrounded by nature and each other. Despite financial woes and an ever-changing landscape, the family manages to persevere and protect their legacy. Join the Clark family in a journey through their peaceful haven as they pass the ranch down to the next generation.
Web Series (Pilot)
Bogan Moths
BOGAN MOTHS - EPISODE ONE is the story of Roger and Benny, two old friends who are struggling with the existential questions of life while fighting the temptation of bright lights at a party full of drunken humans. Roger and Benny loiter in a garage, while the human party is in full swing nearby. In the dark, the two moths discuss the fact they have their lightbulb addiction under control, while truthfully they are waiting and hoping for a person to enter and turn the hanging lightbulb on, setting them free..
Web Series (Pilot)
Грузчики
MoversVitya (DanilSteklov) and Borya (Philip Ershov) are young guys, who after their death find themselves in front of a mysterious mechanism. The machine resurrects them to «restore their karma», but every time in new bodies - guest workers, strippers, women, etc. Being in someone else’s body and facing their friends and family members, they must fix their life mistakes. Could Vitya change his past life and will Borya understand on what sacrifices he has to go for his happiness?
Web Series (Season)
Про людей и про войну
About people and about warThe cycle "About people and about the war" is a collection of short stories based on the stories of people who experienced the hardships of wartime. These are tragic, heroic or even ironic cases that happened to boys and girls during the war of 1941-1945. They were young and beautiful guys who had dreams, plans, love, happiness and creativity ahead of them. But the war intervened. In the modern world, it is not easy to keep the memory of the feat of our ancestors. With our project, we want to remind you that even in the darkest and most terrible days, there is a place for exploits, ingenuity, self-sacrifice, funny coincidences and, of course, love. People rarely and reluctantly talk about their terrible experience. Therefore, there are very few truly truthful materials that have been preserved, not about the assaults and attacks, but about the ordinary everyday life of the war. WEB SERIES "ARTIST" Everyone has their own war - even theatrical artists. Only instead of weapons they have emotions, and they fight not with enemy troops, but with pain, fear and sadness. The propaganda team gives a performance for the wounded Red Army soldiers. A cheerful performance raises the morale of the fighters, allows you to temporarily forget about the hardships of wartime. Pavel - one of the artists - comes to the ward of seriously wounded soldiers, where, among other things, an unfamiliar girl lies. He decides to make a performance just for her. From now on, this story is no longer about war, but about bright hope, miracle and love. Sometimes only something spiritual can save the physical.
Web Series (Season)
A Maior História de Amor em Linha Reta do Mundo
Recife's Greatest Love StoryMago, a chowder vendor at Boa Viagem Beach, uses his street wisdom to sell his wares telling stories of love in Recife. Through him, we meet Nati, a "cool cat", and Alê, a guy from Southeast Brazil. They are the protagonists of "Recife's Greatest Love Story", which is told till the end only if the customers buy one more cup of his chowder.
Web Series (Season)
Alone & Hunted in Space
Alone & Hunted in Space features Cassi Mothwin as Gunner Bates, the last surviving crew member of the intergalactic salvage ship The Wretched. Drifting between the stars after an engine failure, Bates' ship was attacked by a hostile alien lifeform. The entire crew is dead and Bates must avoid the alien while trying to repair the ship. The story follows Bates as she recalls crew members and the life she had before the creature. Alone and Hunted in space aired live on Twitch and without a script or outline ahead of time. It's an actual play of The Wretched, a solo tabletop RPG that uses a deck of cards and a tumbling tower.
Actual Play Series
Subsister: A Real Podcast
When retired podcaster Ray Buchler finds an episode of his old show on a hard drive, he begins investigating where these new episodes are coming from, as well as the canceled reality TV show that he used to podcast about, Subsister. Along with his co-producer, Trisha, Ray questions former guests, analyzes his own episodes, and gets lost in a conspiracy as threats and warnings start coming from every direction. Where do the podcasts come from? What really happened on Subsister? What is real?
Podcast (Fiction)
Gay Mean Girls (Trailer)
When student journalist Savannah Lin becomes embroiled in the complicated dynamics of a queer POC "safe space", she must choose between protecting her community or the integrity of her voice in the wake of a betrayal.
Trailer
Vampire: The Masquerade Port Saga
Shocked by his sire’s murder, young vampire Titus Reed returns to the city of his Embrace only to discover an old friend has confessed to the crime. Unconvinced of her guilt, he reopens the case and vows to hunt down the real killer while confronting his violent past, the Second Inquisition, and the Camarilla politics of Port Saga.
Podcast (Fiction)
Forgotten Masters
Mockumentary where co-op radio host Ian Leighton interviews the greatest guitarists you've ever heard...but never heard of.
Web Series (Season)
Planet Arcana
We join our heroes Rriot, Crater Wane and Celetine Wanderoff outside the home of senior Diplo Beefs Impartial, where they are to search for info on a mysterious and ominous figure known as The Orchestrator. After tripping face first into the door, Celestine is forced to adopt a pretence: Proselytizing for The Star deity, while using a little magic to charm Beefs’ already-friendly wife, Cake. Meanwhile, an invisible Crater and a stealthy Rriot also slip inside and infiltrate Beefs’ private office…
Podcast (Actual Play)
Camp Kaiju: Monster Movie Reviews
Love monster movies? Love film studies? We review traditional kaiju, creature features, space invaders, classic Hollywood monsters, the supernatural, and everything in between through a cultural and historical lens. The good, the bad, and the downright campy - all strange beasts welcome here!
Podcast (Non-narrative)
Frapuccino saison 2
FrapuccinoCyril has the compulsive need to hit someone, randomly, three times a day, at fixed times. Paolo is a serial flirter with a very heavy sense of humor. Amelie is a depressive, middle-class, heartbroken girl. Three characters off their heads, with one mission: deliver a mysterious trunk. Get them in a car for a raod-trip. Shake and chill before serving!
Web Series (Season)
Streams Flow From A River
A freak snowstorm traps a dysfunctional Chinese Canadian family together in their rural Albertan hometown, forcing them to confront the past events that tore them all apart.
Web Series (Season)
Uma semana para Amélia
A week for AmeliaAt the peak of her career, Amélia is giving all her energy to work, ignoring her problems and her relationship with Marcela. After a walk, an unexpected meeting with a little girl can change everything in her life. Amélia sees herself surrounded by events that oppose her goal at work. Will this wave of bad luck ever end?
Web Series (Season)
Love Undone
Love Undone explores the complexities and nuances of the Bell & Hill family, as they navigate love, friendships, family dynamics, careers and ambitions.
Web Series (Season)
ABULIVIA
Abulivia is a neologism that means "away from the olive trees". Since Italy was unified, things have not been very good for the south of the nation. It has been plundered of all its wealth and has gradually become the poorest area of the country. So for about 160 years many people have been seeking fortune in the rich north of Italy where they are sometimes exploited, but abandoning their beautiful homeland. Abulivia wants to tell the story of one of these guys from the south, who returned to his country of origins to help his family in the traditional olives harvest that takes place every year in the months from november to january. The protagonist of the story is a high school graduate, a multiple graduate and has even attended very expensive masters, but in the northern Italy the only job he has found is in a call center. The visit to his native land will represent a catharsis for him, as it is in his agricultural work that he will discover his roots and the beauty of a lost world in which there are still values. All the storytelling revolves around emptiness, void understood both in the Buddhist sense but also in the sense of lack of values. A sad man stares at a large hole in the ground, it is all that remains of a beautiful tree with immense foliage that stood there the day before. The old farmer tells the camera how a monumental olive tree was stolen by bad people who sell all the trees in the south to the north, The farmer tried to defend the tree but the bad guys beat him. They then resold the olive tree to wealthy gentlemen who live in the north and wanted to beautify their garden. But we know the climate of the north is not suitable for this type of trees so they are doomed to death, while the south is increasingly impoverished.
Web Series (Pilot)
Sandy
Cider house manager and aspiring artist Sandrine, stumbles upon an iPad that belongs to JF Simard, a celebrity TV host. While snooping through its contents with her BFF and colleague Pierrette, she finds a goldmine of sensitive info she can use to bolster her own fledgling career. But when her dreams and JF’s secrets collide, Sandrine finds herself pulled into a dark and dangerous spiral.
Web Series (Season)
ᏃᏈᏏ ᏓᎦᏏ Noquisi Dagsi (Star Turtle)
STAR TURTLEIn response to the Cherokee Tribes’ declaration of emergency for the language, award-winning multimedia artist Chris Griffith (Cherokee Nation, OK) in association with Z Puppets Rosenschnoz Productions presents NOQUISI DAGSI (ᏃᏈᏏ ᏓᎦᏏ) STAR TURTLE. With 21st century twists on traditional characters and catchy original songs in English and Cherokee, STAR TURTLE follows Turtle and Wabbit’s quest through time and space to help keep alive the Cherokee language. Each episode of this web series introduces basic Cherokee language concepts, history and culture while imagining a vibrant Cherokee future. “Episode 1: Now” begins as the diabolical Kolana sets her sights on young turtle, Noquisi Dagsi. Using her telescopic powers, Kolana spies Dagsi in a pitiful state of despair at his Grandmother’s house. After Dagsi fails to succeed on the ball field, at the swimming hole and in the kitchen, the young turtle proclaims to Grandmother Turtle that he is a “not-good-at-anything-nobody.” Through a heartfelt song, Grandmother reassures Dagsi that he indeed is and always will be worthy of his name Star Turtle. Flash to the future: Dagsi, grown up and at the steering wheel of a spaceship, is jolted out of the sweet childhood memory of his Grandmother’s song by his lifelong sidekick Jisdu Wabbit. While alarms signal that Grandmother is in danger and distress, Jisdu urgently asks Dagsi if it is time to launch into space. Gathering strength from the echoes of Grandma’s song, Dagsi gives the command to rocket forward to save her. Combining live action with puppetry, the dynamic duo of Dagsi Turtle & Jisdu Wabbit take viewers on an exuberant musical ride into the Cherokee language. Through STAR TURTLE, audiences will see, hear and sing along with Cherokee words at a critical time in the survival of the language.
Web Series (Season)
Delta Green: Resection Of Time
The final episode in a 15-part run of Delta Green comes to a head in the jungle, after a thrilling chase to find some answers.
Actual Play Series
The Drop
Zara and Polly #werk in Toronto as "professional line-waiters" - hired by the rich and lazy to wait in line for exclusive products the day they DROP. A biting satire on modern-day consumerism, transactional friendships, and the expanding wealth gap. Every episode is a new line, and every line is a new adventure.
Web Series (Season)
Lady Ada's Secret Society
Four girls rebel against their hyper-traditional boarding school by pranking it using technology they invented, hacked or “borrowed” while staying only one step ahead of their Headmistress.
Web Series (Season)
Spook Siblings
They just may just be the most unexpected monster hunters ever. Brother / Sister team, Simon and Sally Spook come from a long line of monster hunters. While they be getting a bit too old and may not be in the best shape physically, when you have a supernatural problem, they are the team to call on. The Spook Siblings are making the monsters afraid.
Web Series (Pilot)
Quest Friends!
Since the dawn of time, everyone knew what happened when you died; your soul would carry over to the the Hereafter, where it would take the form of a humanoid creature, like a skeleton or ghost. And then, you know, you could just travel back to the world of the living. If you wanted. Quest Friends! is an improvised fiction podcast where five best friends explore friendship and family in a world where the realm of the dead is only a plane ride away. If you're a fan of The Owl House, Amphibia, or Gravity Falls, you'll be right at home with Quest Friends!
Podcast (Actual Play)
Roar to Heaven
In a future where humanity is under siege by the armies of Heaven, young people step into Hymnal units - music-powered anti-Angel battlesuits, and give up their adolescence for a chance at survival.
Podcast (Actual Play)
EIDOLON Playtest (Concept)
In 1979, a group of high schoolers have founded the Mystery Solver's Club, and spent their final summer before graduation road-tripping throughout Kentucky, searching in vain for supernatural phenomena. Little did they know, their hometown of La Laiterie has been hiding magical secrets from them their entire lives, in the form of Eidolons, powerful spirits that every resident of the town is granted the ability to summon the day they turn 18. Their senior year is devoted to getting to the bottom of the surreal mysteries woven into their town's history, but it's a quest they're doomed to fail; in 1999, the newest members of the 20-year-old Mystery Solver's Club are investigating the unexplained disappearance of the group's founding members.
Podcast Concept
Canadiana
Canadiana is a documentary web series in search of the most incredible stories from Canadian history. Featuring playful animations and scenic footage, the series follows host Adam Bunch as he travels across the country, exploring the tales that have made Canada the unique place it is today. From scandalous love triangles to secret experiments, from rebels and freedom fighters to pirates and spies, we uncover the fascinating and the unexpected. This isn’t the history you learned in school.
Web Series (Season)
Illuminagents
Illuminagents follows the misadventures of two field agents who work for the organization that secretly runs the world.
Web Series (Season)
Better Men Elsewhere
Better Men Elsewhere is an American thriller with a dash of the supernatural, magical realism, and rural fantasy. Follow Jason Miranda, a prisoner sentenced to the mysterious mountain town of Coventry for 10 years for his crimes. Coventry is not your usual town and it is not your usual prison. While the townsfolk must cope with a convicted criminal in their midst as part of this unconventional arrangement, Jason must also have his wits about him as he traverses this even stranger, upside down and mysterious corner of the world.
Podcast (Fiction)
Combat Nuns All Or Nothing
A Nun confesses her weekly sins to a Priest in this 6-minute, violent, dark comedy TV Pilot/Web Series starring Emmy Nominated Dot Marie Jones.
Web Series (Pilot)
TUTOPIQUE
Cosmic influencer of utopic tutorials, Alfa Wonk is forced to fight absurd human paradoxes to deal with facts and fake news. Presently, he explains how to handle fallacious speeches to create a good tagline.
Web Series (Season)
Resting Glitch Face
2081 has been a hell of a year for St Louis. An astral anomaly left a 2 mile radius around downtown a toxic hellscape, and a massacre at a boxing match left hundreds dead or missing. At the center of it all are the Glitches, a shadowrunning team made up of Eris the face, Binary the technomancer, Collateral the muscle, and Jet the sneakthief. The girls attempt to navagate the criminal elements of the St Louis streets, all while looking out for themselves, each other, and the people they love. Throughout season 1, it became clear that things are not as they seem, and that St Louis is about to become ground zero for a battle between powers beyond the ken of most mortals. There's the Black Veilled Prophets, a shadowy group of St Louis elites. There's a mysterious woman with ties to the Russian Mafia who hunts dragons for fun. Perhaps most terrifying is Dr Kobe, a man who performed inhumane experiments on the children at the orphanage where Collateral and Binary grew up. We join the Glitches in the middle of a seemingly mundane job that involved safely extracting a doctor and her son. The intent was to keep them safe for 48 hours before they will be moved to their ultimate destination, but nothing is ever that simple, is it? Turns out that the son is being tailed by a spirit, and the doctor has a bomb implanted in her sinus. Can the girls keep their cool and finish the mission?
Podcast (Actual Play)
EIDOLON Playtest
In 1979, a group of high schoolers have founded the Mystery Solver's Club, and spent their final summer before graduation road-tripping throughout Kentucky, searching in vain for supernatural phenomena. Little did they know, their hometown of La Laiterie has been hiding magical secrets from them their entire lives, in the form of Eidolons, powerful spirits that every resident of the town is granted the ability to summon the day they turn 18. Their senior year is devoted to getting to the bottom of the surreal mysteries woven into their town's history, but it's a quest they're doomed to fail; in 1999, the newest members of the 20-year-old Mystery Solver's Club are investigating the unexplained disappearance of the group's founding members.
Podcast (Actual Play)
Table Read Podcast
Table Read Podcast brings to life original, as-yet unproduced film and television scripts through professionally recorded table reads. Each script is a new adventure in three podcast episodes, taking you behind the scenes in the creative process as though you’re sitting right at the table with the cast! Occasional slip-ups, guffaws, and happy accidents by the performers are left in, creating a real right-at-home feel for the listener, even amidst undeniable talent and skill. Table Read Podcast has aired 4 scripts thus far: Ren Faire Vs. Aliens (the sample provided for this festival) Little Man More than One Idiot Brother Gateway
Podcast (Fiction)
Locally Grown Comedy
Move over, SNL! Locally Grown Comedy is a female-led, filmed sketch comedy and music company. We create high production value, comedy sketches and music videos, featuring over 100 diverse performers, crew, editors and artists from the Midwest. Our content is accessible, for free, on social media platforms. *Winner of "BEST NEW PROJECT" at Catalyst Film Festival, 2022.
Web Series (Season)
Sword of Symphonies
One hundred years after the continent of Amylte was taken to the brink of apocalypse, people are still struggling to rebuild their world. Horrors prowl the darkness, the primal spirits of war, cruelty, and suffering left over from an era when there were still nations, living only for violence. Noble Demons stake their claim on the world, heedless of the pain they cause the mere mortals in their way. Weapons from the Last War lie buried underground, ready to spring to life the second an innocent traveler comes too close. John “Cobb” Cobbler is a pirate who’s gone a long time without his crew, a meddler who can’t let an injustice go unpunished, or at least unscolded. Tissa is a wanderer who’s survived the brutal deserts, the treacherous grasslands, and everything in-between in her search for the definite destiny and real answers she believes in. Penelope Hunter is a farmgirl whose love of simple pleasures belies very real skill as a healer. She has no idea what she’s doing, but she’s here to help. Cat is a Game Master trying to push her latest game to the edge, with the help of her friends. Welcome to Sword of Symphonies.
Podcast (Actual Play)
Kill Every Monster
Dungeons & Dragons is many things to many people, but it was designed to be a game about killing monsters. We examine the lore and mechanics of each creature and ask a central question: are they really a monster?
Podcast (Actual Play)
Sidequesting
Sidequesting is an award-winning scripted fiction podcast about avoiding the main plot and doing sidequests instead. It follows Rion, an adventurer who’s willing to help anyone out - as long as they’re not being asked to deal with the scary wizard that everyone keeps talking about.
Podcast (Fiction)
Paranormal Unit
A woman finds herself murdered by a cult and enlists the help of a medium to convince detectives to help solve her murder. Little do they all know, is that the paranormal threat they start uncovering is larger than they expected.
Web Series (Pilot)
The Boar Knight
Nathaniel the Boar Knight has been bitten by a wereman and has until the next full moon until he turns into (gasp)... a man! He embarks on a quest for a cure to this curse with a dwarrior and gnome bard, doing good at every opportunity.
Podcast (Fiction)
What is Dance
This documentary shows the importance of dance
Web Series (Pilot)
Very Random Encounters - Things from the Flood
Very Random Encounters is a show were the cast plays tabletop roleplaying games in which they randomize as many things as possible. In this season, the cast plays the Things from the Flood RPG, a follow up to Tales from the Loop, set in an alternate universe SCI-FI 90s. Meet the characters and find out how their world changes suddenly and drastically.
Podcast (Actual Play)
映画かよ。
Like in MoviesWeb Series about movie nerds in Tokyo. Minoru is a big movie nerd who recently got a girlfriend, Fooka. Suspecting her infidelity, Minoru asks his best friend Ami to check on her. Reluctant Ami follows Fooka only to find no sign of cheating. After hearing Fooka's rich history of sexuality, however, Ami feels that she might have overlooked a big sign.
Web Series (Season)
Superposition
Traveling through parallel worlds is possible. But are they safe? Student and talented programmer Alexey (played by Pavel Tabakov) will have to find out.
Web Series (Season)
Fawx & Stallion
London, 1889. When the residents of 221B Baker Street leave town for the weekend to solve one of their most famous cases, no one is left to clear a poor housekeeper’s name of a crime she didn’t commit. Well, no one except for their neighbors at 224B…
Podcast (Fiction)
Drag Heals
Drag Heals is a hybrid stage workshop and documentary TV series that follows six drag artists over an intensive month long workshop to build their own show. In each workshop, a guest coach joins stage director Tracey Erin Smith in exploring soul-deep story sharing techniques as well as the unique talents and skills required from a drag performer. Over the course of the intensive workshops and story crafting, the participants dive deep into their personal lives to unearth lessons learned and bring them back to the audience as a gift. They are both the pirate and the pirated, the island and treasure. The resulting stories are emotional and cathartic, both for the drag artists and the audience who share in the experience.
Web Series (Season)
Mysteries Investigations
Join host Darrell Moistrouser and the Mysteries Investigations team as they try to make a tv show investigating the mystery of the ghosts that need investigating to solve the mystery.
Web Series (Pilot)
DragonLance: Shadow Of War
A special 4-part limited series tabletop actual play, DragonLance: Shadow Of War! premiered on the QuestlineDnD YouTube February 2023. Featuring: Luis Carazo as Velzin Alara @luis.carazo Michelle Nguyen Bradley as Strigid @iamchubbybunny Tank Tolman as Tyran Iron-Skull @TankTolman QuincysTavern as Felix "Clubfoot" Chance @quincystavern Roz Young as Tango Flux @roo_zilla Trevor Gemma as Wayreth Rolligtide @gravemortem Kevin Parr as Dungeon Master @DicecreamSandwich Our 6 heroes receive letters informing them of the passing of a mutual friend, which brings them all together for their journey to begin...
Actual Play Series
"home • less"
This series follows the lives of those living on the streets of Minneapolis and reveals the reality of this nationwide problem.
Web Series (Season)
A Change in Gold
A group of cartographers on the Ilse of Immola find themselves on the edge of an apocalyptic event that will rip the island apart.
Actual Play Series
LIMINAL
Through found footage, Liminal follows a group of 3 teenagers exploring an abandoned building to create content for a TikTok trend. At first the space offers a unique aesthetic that they try to warp into something eerie and fear-inducing. However, the forced nature of the content is quickly replaced by genuine horror when they discover an unsettling liveliness and familiarity to the space. The mood takes a turn when one friend disappears and the two remaining polar opposite personalities must navigate a bunch of increasingly distorted and disturbing rooms.
Web Series (Season)
Petites Histoires dans la Ville
Marcela, 19 years old, Gonzalo, 76 years old, and Diego, 21 years old, are all Latin American immigrants who discover the emotional ties that unite them and open a cafe theatre together. A lifelong dream that Gonzalo couldn’t achieve until now. This project is the beginning of their new future in Montreal.
Web Series (Season)
Tobias and Syd
Tobias and Syd is a time-travelling romance podcast play (audio drama) about the allure and impact of tobacco and tobacco companies
Podcast (Fiction)
The White Vault
A team of researchers is trapped in a blizzard in a remote Arctic research station in Svalbard. They make a discovery beneath the ice, but also learn that they are not alone.
Podcast (Fiction)
PAM : programme d'aspirant moniteur
Summer CampOn their way to learn survival in the forest, five teenagers are mysteriously abandoned by their instructors on the first day. Alone, they will confront the wilderness and human nature. When hunger, thirst and fatigue grow to the extreme.
Web Series (Season)
Gay Mean Girls
When student journalist Savannah Lin becomes embroiled in the complicated dynamics of a queer POC "safe space", she must choose between protecting her community or the integrity of her voice in the wake of a betrayal.
Web Series (Season)
Valloward
In a city-state on an island blessed with magical bounty, six houses vie for status and power. A new coterie rises within House Vorster, bastions of honor and tradition. These retainers will need all of their skill, power, and luck to pursue the house's ambitions as well as their own secret desires.
Actual Play Series
No Hay Nadie
No One AroundNo One Around is a fiction series which employs comedy to deal with everyday situations. The eight individual episodes in the series stand alone, though they are connected through an underlying plotline.
Web Series (Season)
Top of the Round
Stuck in the middle of a feud between gods and monsters, Talice and Chaz are forced to make allegiances and sacrifices to save all they hold dear. But can they do so without losing themselves in the process?
Podcast (Actual Play)
Downfall
When graduate student and aspiring author Noah Vaughn goes missing, four unlikely allies join together in a search that forces them to ask where innocence really ends. The journey will take them to the boundaries of the true world where temptations of love, lust, greed, and entitlement linger. But Noah isn't the only thing waiting at the center of this moral labyrinth, and the decisions these characters are forced to make as the illusion of reality parts around them may prove to be their Downfall.
Actual Play Series
Chateau Laurier
Season 2 of the hugely successful award-winning series (3 million views). Edwardian newlyweds Hattie and Vivian navigate their lives on the other side of happily ever after and learn that life as heirs to the grand Chateau Laurier hotel comes with slings, arrows, enemies, opportunities and strife. When the grand hotel was opened in Ottawa in 1912 it represented all that was extravagant and privileged at the dawn of a new century. The surrounding town was little more than a frontier. This is Canada in the moment it blooms onto the world stage, growing pains and all. Chateau Laurier follows the struggle to control power of the hotel (and beyond) between Briar Hays (Tymika Tafari), the new owner of the hotel, her estranged brother Vivian (Luke Humphrey), his wide-eyed new wife Hattie (Kate Ross Leckie), her acerbic Aunt Esme (Fiona Reid)…and Gabriel Sabot, the Cajun-creole boss of Lowertown (Emmanuel Kabongo). The show has a core cast of recurring characters vying for power in the family-run hotel in 1912 Ottawa. Uniquely Canadian, Chateau Laurier is told with a flair for the dramatic, with diverse, distinct, entertaining characters and a dose of humour. New Season 2 cast include Tymika Tafari (Apple TV+ The Marijuana Conspiracy), Emmanuel Kobongo (21 Thunder), Joel Oulette (Trickster), Brittany Raymond (The Next Step), Katie Uhlmann (Nurses) and Jason Gray (Reign). Retuning cast include series leads Kate Ross Leckie (Alias Grace), Luke Humphrey (Tiny Pretty Things), Fiona Reid (Harry Potter on Broadway), Kent Staines (Anne with an E) and Fraser Elsdon (Y: The Last Man).
Web Series (Season)
Mystery County Monster Hunters Club
It's the year 2006 and life in the 51st state of Superior is... pretty weird. In this Monster of the Week actual play comedy podcast, a cast of Chicago improvisers portray a group of under-experienced teens and their well-meaning mentor trying to do their best while dealing with the worst.
Podcast (Actual Play)
Demon Doctor
Inspired by 90s genre shows like Buffy, The Vampire Slayer and The X-Files, Demon Doctor is an LGBT story about a portly demonologist and a detective who believes in the beyond teaming up to confront the mysteries lurking beneath the surface...
Web Series (Season)
Chaika
2089. Earth is silent. Chaika leaves the moonbase where she was born in search of… someone… anyone. Is she the only human left? Chaika is a sci-fi drama of loss, isolation and hope, about a woman navigating a post-apocalyptic future.
Podcast (Fiction)
Je voudrais qu'on m'efface
Wipe Me AwayTwo years have passed since Karine, Mélissa and Eddy had to move. We find them while the three finish, not without difficulty, their last year of high school. If their parents try as best they can to guide them to the adult world, the increasing violence in the neighbourhood, however, continues to threaten their future.
Web Series (Season)
Dark Dice
Six adventurers go into the woods to find the town's missing children. Pursued by a shape shifting demon, they will never be the same again.
Podcast (Actual Play)
The Madness of Chartrulean
Chartrulean was destined to be the messiah the people wanted. Instead, he became what he believed his world needed. Now, the war he brought to an end rages on in his mind. And the timing couldn’t be worse. A delicate game of politics is afoot, and he is torn between the people he trusts and the gods he's angered. Chartrulean must reconcile with both before succumbing to the madness he created.
Podcast (Fiction)
PFAS: Zooming In
90 years ago, in a lab at the DuPont chemical company, chemists accidentally discovered a wonder-molecule that was incredibly durable and had the dual property of being sticky on one side and slippery on the other. Pretty quickly, they realized this stuff could be really useful. Originally, it was used as part of the Manhattan Project, because it could hold volatile chemicals without reacting. In the early 1960's, it became the key ingredient of non-stick cooking pans. Today, we know this miracle molecule as "Teflon", the first PFAS, or per- and polyflouroalkyl substance. PFAS are everywhere now: fast food wrappers, waterproof fabrics, ski wax, and stain-resistant fabrics, just to start. They're even used to make piano keys less squeaky! But, the same properties that make PFAS really useful, durability and stickiness/slipperiness, also mean they don't break down in nature and move around our environment with ease. Recent studies find PFAS in the blood of 99% of Americans. And, it turns out, PFAS are linked to myriad health problems, including high cholesterol, kidney and testicular cancer, and even reduced immunity from the COVID-19 vaccine. This podcast concept is the pilot of a series that explores the history and impact of PFAS, asking the question: what do we do with these chemicals that are simultaneously incredibly useful and devastatingly harmful?
Podcast Concept
Kill.The.Spies: The Ghostwriter
When a rogue mission goes wrong, a spy vows to bring down the murderer at the top of a crime organization.
Web Series (Pilot)
With Grace
With Grace is a fictionalised version of 18 year old writer and lead actor Grace's life as she negotiates her last days of High School. This is the third series that has followed Grace since the sudden death of her Dad when she was 10. When she gets stuck she thinks of what he would do and he is there, sharing his true stories. A bittersweet story about growing up, resilience and the importance of keeping stories and memories alive.
Web Series (Season)
Team-Up Moves
Hosts Fiona Hopkins and Stephanie Burt — along with a variety of guests from the worlds of comic books and tabletop roleplaying games — try out different superhero-themed RPGs and then discuss how their rules and mechanisms work to tell comic book stories. Each “run” of the series is one to three episodes of an actual play, followed by a “back matter” episode to talk about character creation, how well the game accomplishes its goals, and recommendations for comic book issues and other media that the game recalls. This submission is the climax from our run of Masks: A New Generation, by Brendan Conway. Teen hero The Pageknight (James Malloy) has come from a fantasy world to Earth through a magic book, looking for his princess friend, Ness. On his team are Gekko (Indi Tan), who has, well, gecko powers, and Braid (Stephanie Burt) whose body changes, often uncontrollably, into substances it comes into contact with. The three have found Ness in the art school’s library, where she is using The Pageknight’s book to bring sea monsters and other illustrations to life, in revenge for learning that she’s a character from stories.
Podcast (Actual Play)
Starship Q Star
When a tone deaf space agency sends the “first all woman and non-binary crew” on a PR mission to Mars, they inadvertently end up the last six humans in the universe. Lead by Co-Captains (and exes) Aurelia and Sim, STARSHIP Q STAR follows the adventures of this extremely queer crew on their quest across the galaxy to find a new home.
Podcast (Fiction)
Blittle League
Blittle League is an ongoing comedy live play about the horrors of growing up. Blittle League uses the Monster of the Week system and has over 90 episodes filled with laughter, horror, and big feelings. Season 3 just started and is filmed live on Twitch. VODs are put on Youtube, and early episodes are being made into a podcast. We follow an intrepid group of 10 year-olds who, as members of their youth Blaseball team, the Somerville Sunflowers, who are charged with keeping their town safe from demons, monsters, hyper-capitalism, and many other existential threats. And playing Blaseball, of course. A fallen angel, an electric witch, a lab-created psychic, and whatever Zlobs is, must continuously risk their lives, feel feelings, and face the true horrors of growing up. https://BlittleLeague.com https://podcast.blittleleague.com Watch the show live at twitch.tv/JoeyTBadger
Actual Play Series
Sorgina
Witching HourAccording to the legend, the ancestral origin of evil hides in a forest, incarnated in a witch. A young couple, a documentarist and a beautiful host of the documentary will try to catch it on film, but maybe evil is already among them and they are in a place where no one can hear them scream...
Web Series (Season)
Savage Waking: Obliteration
When the tranquility of the small town of Monroville is suddenly shattered one morning by a mysterious earthquake, Sheriff Buckley and Deputy Fish head out to investigate. What they discover lurking among the ruins will soon threaten not only the lives of all in Monroville, but also the lives of those in the cities beyond. Trapped in the local library by forces they don’t understand, will Sheriff Buckley & a small group of civilians be able to decipher the mystery of what’s happening and escape the clutches of the dead, or will the library become their tomb?
Podcast (Fiction)
The Sticker Game
Listeners take on the role of a volunteer researcher, chosen because of how large their sticker collection has grown. Listeners find out their collection has a secret property: the ability to influence other universes. Tasked with gently testing how their stickers affect another version of themselves, listeners unfortunately encounter a glitch that sucks them into a sticker universe where they must use their sticker collection to escape. The Sticker Game is a prompt-driven activity split among 41 audio tracks that last around one-to-two minutes each. The whole game is estimated to last less than two hours. While traditional solo journaling games ask players to write about their characters’ experiences, players use stickers they have at their disposal instead. When the game is over, players will be left with a journal that chronicles their adventure in another universe.
Podcast (Fiction)
W.
After regaining her identity, W. tries to put the pieces of her past back together and build a new life for herself, while helping the police track down elusive criminals, the same ones behind the kidnapping of her husband and child...
Web Series (Season)
GUDIYA
A crooked nose. Wild hair. Parted lips. Three aspects of a newly wedded bride cross the threshold into a life of horrors. Will Gudiya stay loyal to their husband? GUDIYA is a Bluebeard's Bride Actual Play sponsored by Role. With an all-Asian cast, GUDIYA explores the intergenerational trauma of colonization and racialized misogyny.
Actual Play Series
fête
Three sisters gather annually, over a period of five years, to celebrate the eldest's birthday. Each year brings with it new partners, challenges, heartaches, and misgivings in this messy ups and downs dramedy about hugely dysfunctional family dynamics.
Web Series (Season)
William - Episode One
William follows a precocious and impetuous young lad, living in England in the mid-19th Century, who is compelled to solve mysteries. Together with his friend, Olive, as well as many of Conan Doyle's original characters we will meet as their younger selves, William spends the first season of the series finding notes in bottles and assembling them into what seems to be a story. Only at the end of the season, William discovers the notes can be assembled in more than one order. And when they are, they tell a completely different story. The question then becomes: Which version is the real story?
Podcast Concept
The Hunted: NYCSS
This new media action horror comedy follows a group of misfit vampire slayers in New York City. Kendra and Amara, best friends, take a stage combat class with their buddies Max and Evann. Instructor Phil and administrator Diana move the group to a dungeon below class. Our fearful four are exposed to their first vampire, Nic. They learn that vampires are real and cannot be killed by conventional means anymore. Our unlikely heroes train and meet some magical beings along the way. They learn that vampires have a new elixir that keeps them alive forever. Our heroes must find a way to reverse the effects and rid New York City of the Vampire infestation. Slayers and Vampires go head to head in an epic sword fight. Who will win? Or… who can stay alive the longest?
Web Series (Season)
Tokens
Set in the world of actors cast by productions desperate to hit their diversity quotas, Season 2 of TOKENS pivots from the comedic overuse of On Call Casting, the democratic Uber-ization of diverse representation in Season 1, to a comedy about the hunger-gaming of casting and the need to stay ahead of the trend. Sammie Pang, in her quest to find a meaningful role, quits On Call Casting and lands a Hollywood Agent and, seemingly, the role of a lifetime. She soon realizes being on top isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. Season 2 moves the idea of inclusion in front of the camera to the need for authenticity behind the camera.
Web Series (Season)
Middle West
These are the stories within the stories. Inside the minds of monsters, out in the woods, swimming in the lakes, hiding in the forests, surviving the unforgiving midwestern weather, you will find the eventide. Stories both unusual and horrifying – join us for a Midwestern Horror Show!
Podcast (Fiction)
IT'S A CULT!
Four vulnerable people join a self-help group offering the answers they desperately need. Soon a dangerous conspiracy begins to unravel. People start to go missing. And the man behind it all appears to be a three-foot-tall singing and dancing puppet. Could it be a cult? Find out in IT’S A CULT! "Hilarious and clever" ★★★★★ - Tim Ferguson “A comedy mystery so good it should be on Netflix” - Brisbane Stage
Trailer
Hammersmith
Bayou Straights is an up-and-coming action film director, and he's about to shoot the biggest production of his career - An epic action/adventure trilogy featuring the international spy Ryan Hammersmith. A documentary (mockumentary) crew follows Bayou as his filmmaking dreams become a reality, but his oblivious narcissism isn't working well on set. And worse, his insistency to do his own stunts gets him a little too close to the edge. Will he achieve fame and glory, or infamy and embarrassment? Tune in for the thrilling conclusion to the tale of Bayou Straights and his alter ego, HAMMERSMITH !
Web Series (Season)
Ain't Slayed Nobody
Ain’t Slayed Nobody is a Gold ENnie winning podcast, bringing immersive tabletop roleplaying games to your feed! We feature our short podcast series for "Blade Runner: The Roleplaying Game" and "Call of Cthulhu: The Dare" for this festival's highlights.
Podcast (Actual Play)
Walking Shadows Vol. 2
In a Shakespearean mash up consisting of a series of vignettes that play out over one night, Walking Shadows Vol. 2 tells the story of the Everyman Theatre Co. as we join them for their 2023 season launch. Each episode dips in and out of conversations and encounters, unearthing the rivalries, jealousies, personal dilemmas and occasional downright murderous intent of its company members and assorted patrons over one of the most important nights of their artistic year. Walking Shadows Vol. 2 pulls characters from across nine of Shakespeare’s plays into a new imagining of what would happen if they all met in the overheated circumstances of a theatre company plagued by artistic rivalry and ambition on the eve of launching their most ambitious program to date, with a crowd peppered with company members alongside wealthy patrons of the Arts they are trying to impress, who have their own secrets to hide. This new season of the series, featuring a cavalcade of Shakespeare characters, takes the work in a brand-new direction as we watch some thrive, some plot and many unravel. And did we mention they also have a haunted theatre to contend with? Walking Shadows Vol. 2 … what's past is prologue … Commissioned by Howard Fine Acting Studio Australia Produced by Incognita Enterprises Created & Directed by Sally McLean Featuring the Full Time Acting Graduating Students of 2022 from Howard Fine Acting Studio Australia More information about the series: https://www.walkingshadows.com.au
Web Series (Season)
Space Rats
The Pilot: Four escaped lab rats voyage on a mission to prove life beyond Earth. 4 x 15min Web series.
Web Series (Season)
Thin Places Radio
Thin Places Radio is a short-form audio drama and fiction podcast written by Kristen O’Neal and produced by Kaitlin Bruder. The Host comes through the airwaves to share insights from strange locations, responding to real voicemails from actual callers with supernaturally sentimental anecdotes and advice. Each episode is a surreal blend of the paranormal and the mundane—and always ten minutes or less.
Podcast (Fiction)
