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With Molly and Elle’s friendship left hanging in question, we start season 2 with Molly in London, England facing both her heartbreak from ‘The One’ and her new endometriosis/adenomyosis diagnoses. Back in Toronto, Elle has found herself a member of “Community”, a retreat where she went to recoup after a nervous breakdown. What was meant to be a 2-week mental health break is now going on 5 months... and the fact that it is definitely a cult is clear to everyone but Elle. Meanwhile, the ambitious Jordan has been juggling the ad agency he and Elle had started on his own. But when a high-stakes client requires him to go retrieve Elle he finds a very different version of his old workaholic/party-girl friend. In the meantime, Molly returns to Toronto and must learn how to ask for help in order to receive the surgery and support that she needs and Elle feels like everyone who ever loved her in the real world has abandoned her, and turns all of her co-dependant tendencies to “Community”. As Molly and Elle navigate their unseen illnesses and their paths continue to diverge, a permanent friendship-breakup seems inevitable... or could their paths to self-discovery bring them back together?

Avocado Toast the series SEASON 2

After 10 years of being appart, the sisters Billie and Rose reconnect with one common goal: kidnap their farther as he finally walks out of jail. Looking for money that is rightfully theirs; the siblings will end up finding something far more precious…

BILLIE & ROSE

This unique web series was filmed remotely in the midst of the pandemic & lockdown in Los Angeles. Thanks to our fantastic crew and cast we were able to create something special during this hectic time.

Synopsis -
During a pandemic, while everyone has to be under lockdown, the only way they can communicate with each other is through video calls. We get to watch our characters trying to function in this craziness.

On one hand, Lucy, a psychologist who's expecting her first child, while trying to help her patients: Matt and Julie are in the middle of a separation, Ronen is having a long-distance relationship and Sophie is dealing with some life-changing news. On the other hand, we have a psychic, Diamond, that gives her clients some hope during this chaos: Charlotte is trying to teach online preschool kids for the first time, David is dating for the first time, James is trying to find a girlfriend, and George who doesn't know how to deal with this whole stay home order.

How are they going to survive this pandemic? What will happen to their relationships?

Digital Affairs

Smartphone-addicted millennials fumble through the modern maze of love, sex, and connection as their addictions spiral out of control and into the void of an alien disguised as a human female.

Discontent Season 1

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust. It was written sometime between 1589 and 1592. We filmed it in Canterbury where it was written by Marlowe. We were lucky to film it in Greyfriar's Chapel in the exact room where 420 years earlier Marlowe studied as a child. This webseries is Mari Lewis's directorial debut.

Doctor Faustus

Season 1

The Gliwensbourg Chronicles - Trailer

AN 8-PART SERIES BASED ON HAMLET BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Denmark Circus has necessarily gone virtual. Skip-jumping along Shakespeare’s text, Ophelia’s story is unveiled in short digestible episodes. She is a silks aerialist. Hamlet is a clown who has lost all his mirth. The two conspire in hopes of finding out what really happened to their former ringleader.

Hamlet & Ophelia is a love letter to live performance made during a time when performance could not be live. All contributing artists self-taped as individuals or within personal quarantine pods.

Hamlet & Ophelia

When the Dumont sisters receive the phone call from their mother, telling them to come home, they can never imagine the darkness that awaits. Upon return, the seemingly innocent family reunion takes a sudden, dark turn as their loyalty and love for one another is put to the ultimate test. Each dealing in their own ways, they must inevitably decide what they are willing to sacrifice for kin.

At its core, Kith & Kin is about family- the sacrifices we are willing to make, the secrets we are willing to keep and the love that ties that all together. It explores our instincts for survival, protection and the cost that we pay for the sins of our Ancestors.

Kith & Kin

Teenage couple Arabella and David have just broken up. Not yet grounded in the decision, they take on the next question: how should they tell their classmates about it to avoid awkward situations at school?

Let it Burn

(mis)placed is a web series about the intersecting lives of twenty-somethings, all searching for love, work, and meaning in the world today.

(mis)placed

After a night of celebration Alan drunkenly tells his wife Michelle. The dark origin behind their love

Persistence

What do you do when you cancel your wedding not once but twice due to a global pandemic? Then what do you do when you get pregnant right as your would-be-husband is about to return home to the other side of the world?

ReCANCELLED is a relationship drama – a story about two people caught between two very different worlds while pregnant during a pandemic.

ReCANCELLED

Sometimes the person you would take a bullet for is behind the trigger. When the first family of the church is exposed, dynasties are destroyed, and a secret love child is reveled. Ariel gives Greg another chance, but his double life is catching up to him. Patricia is struggling to keep her fiancé and family together. Jamal helps Sabrina and comes to her rescue.

SECRETS

Shakespeare by Half light is a film noir series of Shakespeare speeches filmed using epic’s unreal engine. We have been inspired by the concept of the metaverse and the use of virtual sets to take our story to a film noir world.

Shakespeare By Half Light

Featuring 15 original songs by @Nakia and Joshua R. Pangborn, Dueling Pianos is a musical event set in the Skeleton Crew universe. Feeling themselves fraying at the seams, Hunter and Anthony seek opportunities to solidify their remarriage, unexpectedly facing danger along their journey somewhere over the rainbow. Meanwhile, an open mic night at MoneyShot$ leads to truths meeting emotions head on.

Executive Producer
Joshua R. Pangborn

Songs Produced by Nakia & Matt Parmenter

Songs Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Matt Parmenter at Ice Cream Factory Studios in Austin, Texas.

With Four Music Sequences Filmed and edited by @Catalin Stelian

Hear the entire original cast recording at HTTPS://NAKIA.ME/DUELINGPIANOS1

Join the Crewniverse: https://www.patreon.com/SideKickProductions

Skeleton Crew (aka Dueling Pianos: A Skeleton Crew Musical)

Laurence is struggling to recover from the accidental death of Camille, her 6-year-old daughter. Her husband Daniel tries to help her, but he also has to grieve. As the first anniversary of her child's death approaches, Laurence begins to experience strange phenomena in the family home. She is convinced that her dead little girl is trying to communicate with her.

Sleep With Me

Laurence is struggling to recover from the accidental death of Camille, her 6-year-old daughter. Her husband Daniel tries to help her, but he also has to grieve. As the first anniversary of her child's death approaches, Laurence begins to experience strange phenomena in the family home. She is convinced that her dead little girl is trying to communicate with her.

Sleep With Me (Trailer)

In a world full of apps and easy sex, we take glimpse into the lives of several LGBTQIA+ people as they chase after physical and emotional connection.

Sui Generis / Season 3

A middle-aged Jewish woman—fired from her job as a high school chemistry teacher—joins a Neo-Nazi terror group and is assigned the task of creating a weapon of mass destruction.

Violent True Believer

“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together …” – William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well

In the midst of the continuing global pandemic, the smaller, more personal tragedies and triumphs can be discounted or minimised. This series, set as Melbourne re-emerged from its 6th (and second longest) lockdown due to Covid-19, shines a light on the little things as our city came slowly back to life. From political machinations for personal gain to relationship issues to mental health challenges to the first tentative steps back to a “normal” life and more, through each episode we are observers of human nature rediscovering itself in the backwash of a global crisis - with some finding their voice and others finding the opposite, still in the overwhelm of it all.

In a world where masks were beginning to be removed (for better or ill) and we came together face-to-face for the first time in a long time – this series explores the myriad of domestic and personal challenges our previous isolation caused or caused us to hide from, as seen through the lens of a wide range of Shakespeare characters, using his original words.

Created & directed by award-winning actor/director, Sally McLean (Shakespeare Republic), produced by Incognita Enterprises, commissioned by the Howard Fine Acting Studio Australia and featuring their 2021 graduating full time acting cohort, this new series officially launched on May 25, 2022. Filmed by the students on smartphones & cameras under McLean’s direction in real time using Zoom calls, the entire series was made during the Melbourne lockdowns of 2021. Most of the students had never performed Shakespeare before working with Sally on this series. To see all episodes, visit https://www.walkingshadows.com.au

Walking Shadows Vol. 1

Weirdos is a female-driven teen drama series exploring the struggles faced by Charlotte, a plus-size teen girl who is relentlessly tormented and bullied by a group of teenagers in high school. With the help of a new student, Sam, she finds her inner strength and finally stands up for herself. Thanks to kindness, Charlotte not only changes the direction of her life but also that of her bullies.

Weirdos weaves an intricate and heart wrenching story of teenage life that deeply resonates with young teens across the globe. To date, it has garnered 4.5 millions views on YouTube and tens of millions on other social media platforms.

Weirdos
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