11 Canadian Producers Pitch 6 Series at Series Mania 2026
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- Eleven Canadian producers will pitch six digital short form or web series at the 2026 Series Mania Forum's Canada's Producers to Watch, the largest Canadian delegation at the French festival, with seven of the 11 producers being women and at least three Indigenous production companies included
- Julie O'Bomsawin's Kassiwi Média is producing "Nish," a youth fiction series shot in French and Innu tracking two teen twins in a remote Northern Quebec community, billed by the producer as "an act of narrative sovereignty" and set to debut on Ice Tou.TV in fall 2026
- Neegan Sioui Trudel's "Saturnids" screens in Series Mania's 2026 Short Form Competition as a sci-fi horror about mass insomnia in Montreal, while he also pitches "Shamanic Nightmare," a folk horror set at a shamanic retreat
- Ania Jamila's Kavalo Productions returns with "Hotel Beirut" Season 2, following a teenage photographer whose family fled Lebanon in the late 1980s and now wrestles with the pull of returning home
- Four pitched series share a relocation theme — "Hotel Beirut," "Citiots," "Cows Come Home" and "Malgré Moi" — covering characters adapting to small-town or rural Canada through comedy, romance or a "second chance embrace of new belonging"
- Katie Uhlman's "Cows Come Home" on Katie Chats Inc. performs in the top 2% of programming on Bell Fibe TV1 according to the producer, with Uhlman directing and co-writing the Tabby Acres competitive-cow-showing dramedy
- Ceres Productions (the Davey sisters) is simultaneously producing a six-part prestige limited series adapting Emma Donoghue's short story and starring Supinder Wraich, while pitching comedy "Citiots" in Lille
Why it matters: With seven women and at least three Indigenous-led companies anchoring the 11-producer cohort, Series Mania buyers get a concentrated slate of emerging Canadian series; at least four of the six pitches share a relocation-and-belonging throughline, aligning with the co-production DNA that Ania Jamila calls central to Canadian producers' work with the French TV industry.
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