Bell Media 2012 Residents Showcase

ADRIAN AVDEEFF

BIOGRAPHY Adrian is the son of a pharmacist and while his family moved from place to place, his one constant was his love of Marvel comics and TV: X-Men and X-files. He studied at the Vancouver Film School, after which he worked as manager at a major movie theatre where he consumed hundreds of films. He then travelled the world as an officer aboard a cruise ship with a varied and colourful crew before pursuing his writing career. Connection and commitment: relevant themes not only in Adrian's life, but in his writing, as he explores how to find our role and meaning in this world.

PROJECT SLATE GLOBAL (One hour dramatic-action thriller) The disappearance of a world famous philanthropist being investigated by the FBI leads the unprepared agents on a globetrotting search for truth among a network of multi-national corporations, criminal organizations and secret societies that will do anything to keep the truth hidden.

CONNECTED (A modern tech family one hour drama) Gone are the days of a family living in the same house, town or country for generations. Today’s family is scattered, separated, divided and distant. Yet we still remain connected. Modern technology and social media has allowed people to expand to the furthest reaches and still remain a family.

Logline Two professional killers gone rogue. One criminal syndicate turned terrorist group. Let the body count begin.

Synopsis Two Professional Assassins. One seeking redemption for a lifetime of wrongdoing. One on the hunt for revenge against those that tore his life apart. Their common enemy is too big for either of them to take down alone. They reluctantly agree to work together in a bold attempt to achieve their personal goals and perhaps do a little good along the way.

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For more information contact: Adrian Avdeeff • 647.526.4224 • stark.colour@gmail.com

EMMA CAMPBELL

BIOGRAPHY Emma is a writer/performer with over fifteen years experience in the television and film industry. Her first feature film, The Tenant, has been optioned by Whizbang Films. As an actor, select credits include Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator, the Gemini, Emmy and Golden Globe nominated Human Trafficking, and CBC’s Othello.

PROJECT SLATE THE FAMILY (One hour procedural) Meet Nicole Gallagher, a tough, smart Interpol detective, as she sneaks into her hometown of Toronto to take down the biggest bad guy of her career. She hopes to get in and out before anyone from her old life spots her. Trouble is, she unravels a bigger mystery that keeps her in Tdot long enough for her corrupt cop of a Dad and Mafioso ex-mistake of a man to find her. Solving this case could be the beginning of a new chapter for Nicky, one she hoped she’d never have to read.

NAHLA’S MAGIC DIARY (Half hour animated series. For 2-4 year olds) A 7-year-old Philippina vampire bat named Nahla and her best friend, a wombat named Bonnie and her magical Diary, embark on an adventure that engages the viewer every episode to help or find someone.

LOGLiNE “In high school, social life is life.”

SYNOPSiS Whacked is a half hour dramedy about the female mafia in high school and about two sisters, Michaela and Helena King. On her first day as a senior, Michaela, the second most popular and powerful girl in the school gets this text from her best friend, Cheri Grandini, the MOST popular and powerful girl in the school “ I know what u did. By the end of 2 day so will everyone else”. Michaela knows her and her younger sister Helena’s high school lives are intertwined and because of that she decides to do something she should’ve done a long time ago. Michaela’s going to whack Cherie. She’s going to socially kill the Queenpin of the school.

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ANDREW MALABRE

BIOGRAPHY Originally from Winnipeg, Andrew cut his teeth in the entertainment industry through Second City and has performed sketch and improv across Canada. He made the shift from stage to screen first as an actor but then quickly found his calling in screenwriting. Andrew has been a script coverage analyst for Darius Films, was a Scriptapalooza finalist and his script The Livingston’s was a TIFF Telefilm Pitch This! project optioned by Creative Alliance. He is currently working with Rugged Media writing their Hip-Hop movie “Foot Up”.

PROJECT SLATE MATTRESS KING (One hour dramedy) When a lackadaisical University student inherits his dead father’s mattress business, he soon finds out it’s a front for a major drug operation.

TEACHed (Half hour comedy) The first day of high school’s difficult, especially when you’re a naïve teacher dealing with a faculty of misfits.

LOGLINE When a politician is witnessed committing a hit and run by the mafia, he’s forced to juggle his morals against the demands that are forced upon him.

SYNOPSIS After his re-election party, the mayor of Winnipeg commits a hit and run and the only witness is the head of the Ukrainian mafia. In order to keep them quiet, the mayor must comply to their demands and if he doesn’t, his life, family and career will be tarnished forever.

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For more information contact: Andrew Malabre • 647 287 9259 • andmalabre@yahoo.ca

TAMMY MARLOWE JOHNSON

BIOGRAPHY Tammy Marlowe Johnson is a latchkey kid, raised on TV, and thank goodness for that: her life now revolves around procedurals with juicy characters and intrigue and delicious ensemble dramas. Her own procedural series The Mark of Cain is currently in development with CTV, and her IPF-funded web series Verdict will screen at the L.A. Web Series Festival. Before writing for TV, Tammy worked the police and law courts beats as a newspaper reporter. She injects that real-life experience into the imaginary worlds she now embodies.

PROJECT SLATE WANTED (Procedural crime drama) In an era where social media is king and people are remarkably interconnected, the elite team of specialized private investigators at Wanted leverage the power of the people to solve the most high-profile unsolved crimes in the country.

DRIVE (Serial period drama) Style. Sophistication. Horsepower. Wheels. There's no more illustrious status symbol than the automobile, especially at the turn of the century when, if you owned one, you were the envy of all your neighbours – and if you built them, you were a God. Drive is a luxurious period soap opera that explores the lives of the ruthless titans in the Windsor automobile industry during the 1920s.

Logline The Pen is mightier than the sword.

Synopsis The Pen is an experimental, co-ed high school for teenage inmates – a place where kids who have reached their rock bottoms can start to build a new identity and purpose for their lives. Their teacher, Amber Anderson, is also an experiment: she’s a convicted criminal who’s served some hard time herself. Amber can relate to these seemingly hopeless students like no other authority figure can, and it’s up to her to help them understand their violent and scandalous pasts don’t define their futures ... all while struggling with her own bad decisions, unforgiveable behaviour and fatal mistakes.

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Tammy Marlowe Johnson

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TAMARA MOULIN

BIOGRAPHY Tamara Moulin is a television writer based in Toronto. Her recent experience includes interning in the writing rooms of both Flashpoint and Rookie Blue. Tamara was a winner of the 2010 Canwest Global Writer’s Apprentice Program. She interned with a number of unscripted shows and a daily newspaper after graduating from Ryerson’s Radio and Television Arts Program where she was the recipient of the Ross Video Scholarship and the William Harding Memorial Award.

PROJECT SLATE SNITCH (One hour drama) The ruthless daughter of a mob boss works with a principled detective to bring down her father’s organization.

THE VIOLENCE GENE (One hour drama) After scientists discover a supposed ‘violence gene’ and lock up those predestined to harm others, an innocent young inmate struggles to break out of prison and prove that she can rise above her biology.

LOGLINE A fifteen-year-old girl is transplanted from a home she loves to the biological family of strangers who lost her when she was kidnapped as a child.

SYNOPSIS Cady Collins used to be Emily Davies, but nobody ever told her that. At three she was kidnapped from her family of five and raised by the kidnapper. Now, at fifteen, that ‘kidnapper’ is the only mother – and the only family – she’s ever known. That kidnapper is also on the lam, and Cady has no choice but to be returned to the Davies family, which means starting high school in an unfamiliar small town, with a family full of strangers who all have different expectations – and solving the looming mystery of what really happened all those years ago.

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Tamara Moulin

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VINCENT SHIAO

BIOGRAPHY Vince worked in the media and entertainment division of a major audit/consulting firm for many years before joining Alliance Films as a manager in the finance group. Here, he helped tally the earnings of shows such as Mad Men and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation before turning his sights to the more creative end of the business. Since graduating from Western, Vince has been actively involved with LIFT as both a board member and moderator of their Screenwriters’ Circle. He is drawn to characters who face morally ambiguous choices, and exploring the consequences of those choices in the most original and entertaining way possible.

PROJECT SLATE QUANTS (One hour drama) Hindsight is $20 trillion.

Two brilliant young mathematicians help a ruthless Wall Street investment bank tap into America's housing boom -- three years before the 2008 financial meltdown.

CUPIDITY (Half hour dark comedy) Expelled from the heavens for insubordination and failing to meet quotas, the once-idealistic (but now cynical) Cupid roams the city under a pseudonym, selling his “romantic consulting” services to the highest bidder.

Logline Forbidden romance, friendship and betrayal play out between the captives and their guards in a Japanese internment camp in 1940’s BC.

Synopsis Michael Kimura is a seventeen-year-old Vancouver kid whose life is turned upside down on December 7th, 1941, when Japan’s imperial navy launches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Major Sherman Thorne is a decorated veteran who reluctantly agrees to oversee a Japanese internment camp after an injury forces him off the battlefield. Together, these two individuals will discover the real meaning of friendship, family, and loyalty, in a world overrun with prejudice.

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Vince Shiao

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STEPHANIE TRACEY

BIOGRAPHY Steph Tracey is an emerging poet, novelist, and screenwriter who has a fondness for the unusual. She studied Creative Writing in England for three years, until one day a seagull swooped down and stole the sandwich right out of her hand. It was then she decided she had had enough.

PROJECT SLATE AS THEY KNOW IT (One hour sci-fi comedy) Orson and Amelia are long-time best friends who get separated after they are sucked into a swirling vortex above their TV. Now they must try to find each other as they journey through parallel universes.

RENAISSANCE QUEST, DINNER AND JOUST (Half hour comedy) Wren Sanders has a Masters in History and works as a 'bar wench' at a rundown Medieval themed restaurant, alongside a gaggle of misfit co-workers who convince her to embark on unexpected quests.

MISSING FILLINGS (Half hour comedy) Missing Fillings centres around Daniel Berry Jr., a dental school dropout who runs an illegal dental clinic out of his basement with the help of Mike Bigmen, an ex-military dentist, and Lauren Loeb, an aspiring actress.

L ogline Set in 1910s Toronto, during a time of social upheaval, Ladies in Practice is a period drama that follows the first female medical residents in Canada.

Sy nopsis Margaret Clark, Helen Labelle and Lucy McNally are three women from completely different backgrounds, but they have one thing in common: they are among the first women in Canada training to become doctors. Set to the backdrop of archaic medicine, terrifying surgical instruments and typhoid outbreaks, Ladies in Practice follows these three women as they navigate the tricky social politics of an Edwardian co-ed work environment, rise to challenge of proving themselves capable, and deal with societal expectations of womanhood – all while wielding a scalpel.

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For more information contact: Stephanie TracEy • 416.738.1739 • poetryofdepartures@hotmail.com

PRISCILLA WHITE

BIOGRAPHY Priscilla White abandoned the world of information technology, databases and code to create worlds of her own filled with "evil" Faery queens, tortured ex-priests and soccer-mom spies.

She has participated in the Bell Media Diverse Screenwriters' program and the SHAW Global Writers' Apprenticeship program. Priscilla loves character based dramas and enjoys writing shows centered on teens, the supernatural/genre and crime.

PROJECT SLATE CASSANDRA OF TROY (Drama) A woman with the ability to see the future teams up with a private investigator to prevent tragedies from happening.

THE LINE (Crime Drama) In a quest for survival, newly appointed Police Chief Austin Hebron uses questionable means to defend border town Laredo, TX against a Mexican drug cartel's invasion.

LOGLINE A coming of age story following six teens who journey to the realm of Faery and return with supernatural abilities which they use to defend the world against invading Fae creatures.

SYNOPSIS Elle Adams discovers a family legacy which reveals the existence of Faery, a forgotten realm that runs parallel to our world. Guided by her grandmother’s journal Elle rips open the veil to Faery and travels through the rift, followed by her friends, Ash, Paige, Connar, Dane and Brynna. The young interlopers partake of Faery and by doing so, become Changelings - human-fae hybrids with supernatural abilities.

And just in time too, fore the teens are stalked by fantastical fae creatures and barely escape with the lives after a deadly battle. Now back in the mortal realm, the Changelings must protect it and themselves from Fae creatures which emerge from the rift and threaten our very existence.

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P riscilla M. White

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