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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

In Dating Unlocked, hopeful romantics from the LGBTQ2S+ community move beyond curated social media and dating profiles to find love in real life, and potentially share the key to their hearts. From the traditional to more radical, there are daters from all walks of life who share the same goal - to find a hook-up, a date or their one and only.

In each episode, our lead dater selects someone they’d like to continue the romance with – by choosing between three prospective dates. To assist these love seekers in creating a connection with the lead dater, each episode involves games, activities and intimate moments tailored to showcase their personalities and interests. After weighing their options, the lead dater extends a secret invite for a second date. Will the chosen person unlock those fuzzy, flirty feelings and show up or leave them alone behind the door?

There is only one way to find out!

Dating Unlocked

LOGLINE: While waiting for her Google dream job, an ex-Israeli commando teaches a NYC night school philosophy class & uses her eclectic international students as unwitting pawns in her private eye gigs

THEME: Applying classical philosophical to today’s seemingly soulless world takes real effort. But when your professor is an unprincipled, self-absorbed, libertine dreamer, the moral boundaries are stretched to their limits. On the other hand, anything is better than sitting in the classroom being lectured on Confucius’ views on concubines.

Our Dreamer is DEVORAH ZISSA (DeZi) is ex-Israeli Army commando. Her name Hebrew means Sweet Bee & she’s the charismatic Queen bee all the other worker bees swarm around. Her philosophical views are a mix of Machiavelli & Sun Tzu. Dezi was indeed in Israeli Military intelligence but maybe not so successfully. But now that she’s in NYC, it’s all about a new type of battleground warfare: survival.

ZAYA is Dezi’s army BFF & now roommate in a Brooklyn loft full of Israelis called the Kibbutz. A hopeless romantic, Zaya is an aspiring celebrity personal trainer.

RONI KAPLAN (KAPO) is Dezi’s ex commander who owns a cleaning service/private security firm in NYC. Kapo has a complex big brother/misogynist relationship with Dezi but gets her the first few side gigs.

TAGLINE: They DESIRE the American Dream but only on their terms!

DeZAYA

CONCEPT: A virginal master-baker and a self-proclaimed sex goddess team up to open an erotic bakery, only to have their social-climbing arch-nemesis declare a turf war. FORNICAKES is a contemporary web series in the style of Friends meets 2 Broke Girls. At its heart, it is the story of how women, no matter their differences, always have each other’s backs.

The Fornicakes bakery is located in middle America suburbia, where old fashioned ideals are still cool, and the Morality Board regulates town standards. With its divinely decorated erotic-shaped baked goods, FORNICAKES is frequently in conflict with the Morality Board’s mores. Proximity breeds drama and contempt with the COFFEE SHOP next door and the MUFFIN FACTORY across the street.

SERIES OVERVIEW: Neurotic, virginal Jolene and sex-starved Lisa work to dig themselves out of poverty by opening Fornicakes - an erotic bakery where Jolene bakes edible genitalia while recently-divorced Lisa plots to steal her ex-husband Trevor back from their hated former high school rival Blanche. For Jolene and Lisa, it’s not just about pride. It’s about survival. Luckily, they have Daniel, the barista extraordinaire, who runs the coffee shop next door to Fornicakes.

FORNICAKES

When a clueless burnout inherits his father’s failing and seedy pawnshop, he’ll have to take command over a staff of dimwitted, misfit employees and turn the shop around before it’s forced to close forever.

King & Pawn

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

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

The story starts with a romcom meet cute, but instead of following the romantic leads, we watch the story from the point of view of their best friends.
In the pilot episode, Megan and Rob meet. Megan believes that her friend needs help to make romance happen, whereas Rob believes strongly in fate and that they don't need to intervene.

Sideliners - Pilot Episode

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)

Sloppy Jones is a short form slasher comedy series about three queer Gen-Zillennial servers working at Sloppy Jones Grill: RORY, a free spirited people pleaser; HARPER, a book-smart, bisexual bartender; and THOMAS, a calculating b*tch. This Unholy Trinity’s world is upended when they discover the severed torso of their dirtbag boss FRANK JONES in the freezer, just as DEBORAH, Frank's estranged wife, makes a perfectly timed entrance into their lives. Now every single one of them looks guilty and no one is safe until the trio find out- Who killed Frank…and who will they kill next?

Sloppy Jones (Season 1)

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

Walkie-Talkie is a witty, semi-autobiographical digital comedy series that follows 24-year-old Katie as she grapples with what it means to be asexual in a world that places such a high value on sex. When all her friends start to prioritize their dating lives over their friendships, Katie embarks on a quest to meet and connect with new people in a non-traditional way: by hiding a walkie-talkie in a new place each week and then going on a walk with the person that finds it. Essentially, she sets herself up on platonic blind dates.

In the pilot, a young man named Adam picks up the walkie-talkie, and he and Katie connect immediately. Their relationship is the heart of the series. Importantly, this is NOT an “I thought I was asexual until I met the right person” story. Since there is no middle ground between having sex and not having sex, Walkie-Talkie explores their complicated relationship with empathy, nuance, and humor.

Walkie-Talkie
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