Projects in Development
Mana (“Inheritance”)
Documentary
A young Filipino family immigrates to Vancouver in the mid-1990s chasing a better life. They moves in with relatives expecting refuge, only to find their greatest obstacle living under the same roof. As one difficult year unfolds beneath a shared roof, they discover that creating a home sometimes means leaving family behind.
*In Post-Production
Under My Roof
Short Drama
A young Filipino family immigrates to Vancouver in the mid-1990s chasing a better life. They moves in with relatives expecting refuge, only to find their greatest obstacle living under the same roof. As one difficult year unfolds beneath a shared roof, they discover that creating a home sometimes means leaving family behind.
The Reno
Feature Rom Com
Disillusioned with dating, Bea escapes to the Philippines to restore her family's ancestral home—alone—but her journey of self-discovery is derailed when she meets a suitor and discovers the Filipino courtship tradition of 'ligaw'.
Swan Song
Feature Comedy Drama
As ski ballet makes its swan song at the 1992 Winter Olympics, an eccentric group of athletes fights to prove their elegant, wildly misunderstood sport belongs on the world stage. They discover that saving ski ballet matters less than reinventing themselves as the sport of skiing heads in a new direction.
Firebreak
Short Drama
In the year 3000, mountain communities are surrounded by a half-kilometre firebreak to protect against ‘wildfire season’ (formerly known as ‘summer’). When a recluse passes away, his journalist granddaughter discovers his collection of documentary films from 1960 to 2040 all warning of climate change and fire weather. It sparks an investigation of why society stayed on course for climate disaster despite knowing it would come.
Memories of Ice
Documentary
On the roof of the Canadian Rockies, glaciologist and mountaineer Dr. Alison Criscitiello leads a daring expedition to drill a surface to bedrock ice core on Canada's Snow Dome Glacier—a water tower that feeds three oceans and affects millions of North Americans. As the team extracts ice holding thousands of years of climate memory, they uncover the story of our planet’s past and a haunting glimpse of a rapidly warming world.