Boasting an extensive and diverse slate of projects from creators across Canada, BGPD focuses on nurturing and developing both feature films as well as scripted and unscripted television series from concept to script to pitch.
CURRENT DEVELOPMENT SLATE
FEATURES
A YOUNG MAN SLEPT IN: Friesland, late 19th century. Sami is a young, happy, early-rising mailman. When his girlfriend Saskia’s father dies, Sami is tasked with rising early the next morning to dig the dead man’s grave. Unfortunately, on this day he sleeps in until late morning, and finds upon waking that he’s aged three or four decades. He sets out to find his ex-girlfriend’s father’s corpse, deliver his undelivered mail, and see if he can somehow catch up with the rest of the world, which seems to have left him far behind, alone and bewildered in his now aged body.
Co-production with Walking Down Broadway Ltd.
Genre: Drama, Scripted
Status: In development
Creative Talent: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson
THE FRUIT MACHINE: A young civil servant becomes unwittingly involved in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's controversial 1960s fruit machine project intended to identify subjects' sexual orientation.
Co-production wtih Blue Prairie Productions Limited
Genre: Drama, Scripted
Status: In development
Creative Talent: Brian Drader (playwright), Liz Janzen (screenwriter)
THE LION IN WINNIPEG
Co-production with Copperheart Entertainment http://www.copperheart.ca/
Genre: Drama, Scripted
Status: In development
THE BLUE CASTLE: When Valency receives a fatal medical diagnosis from her doctor, she determines to defy her oppressive mother and live life to the fullest. Based on the novel by L.M. Montgomery.
Co-production with Breakthrough Entertainment Inc https://www.breakthroughentertainment.com/
Genre: Drama, Scripted
Status: In development
Creative Talent: Eleanore Lindo, Janet McLean
THE EVENING CHORUS: James, an RAF airman imprisoned in a German POW camp, turns to birdwatching to escape the relentless oppression while his wife, Rose, falls into a passionate love affair with a Canadian soldier and James' sister Enid loses her home and her lover in the London blitz. Three lives intertwined by nature, love and loss. Based on the novel by Helen Humphries.
Co-production with Alkaia FIlms
Genre: Drama, Scripted
Status: In development
Creative Talent: Helen Humphries, Adrienne Mitchell, Dennis Foon https: https://dennisfoon.com/
TELEVISION:
ACTING GOOD: In the fly-in reserve of Grouse Lake, Manitoba, where the wildlife out-number the people, the Nanowin family are each other’s whole world, but when your whole world is that isolated, the smallest things tend to get amplified. From the team that brought you LESS THAN KIND, and SUNNYSIDE.
Genre: Comedy, Scripted
Status: In development
Creative Talent: Eric Toth, Pat Thornton, Amber-Sekowan Daniels, Paul Rabliauskus
BAGGAGE OF THREE: In the vibrant city of Toronto, three millennial Black women navigate through the trials of life, love, and f-boys.
Genre: Comedy, Scripted
Status: In development
Creative Talent: HIlda Afrakoma
BASH: When a floundering 1970s-era female hockey team led by two down on their luck friends introduces fighting into their games, the league – and the women – find new energy and purpose.
Genre: Drama, Scripted
Status: In development
Creative Talent: Alice Moran
HIDE AND SEEK: When the remains of a 13-year-old missing girl are discovered at the bottom of a quarry, new questions about her deadly fate emerge, forcing successful politician Veda Carver to reconcile her past as well as her own role in her sister’s disappearance.
Genre: Drama, Scripted, Thriller
Status: In development
Creative Talent: Drew Carnwath, Tom Cavanagh