Pietra Brettkelly's film CROCODILE will see its USA premiere at The Tribeca Festival June 5, 6, and 8. A huge hit, the film sold out quickly at its world premiere in Berlin earlier this year.
Scored by Core composer TOM THIRD, the film follows a young Nigerian art collective creating DIY sci-fi films with homemade equipment, documenting their lives while exploring fantastical alternate realities. An energetic celebration of creativity and resourceful storytelling.
Congrats to: Steph Copeland - It Feeds, "Angel Shot" from Trapped in the Spotlight; Suad Bushnaq - Yunan; Tom Third - Modern Whore, The Spoils; Rob Melamed & Ryan McClarnon - Mistletoe Murders; Jesse Zubot, Josh Zubot, Jason Sharp - Mafia: Most Wanted.
The 2026 Canadian Screen Awards will be presented as part of Canadian Screen Week 2026, which takes place from Wednesday, May 27 to Sunday in Toronto. Simulcast on CBC, CBC Gem, Crave, CTV, Global, and STACKTV May 31.
Kenya-Jade Pinto‘s film THE SANDBOX, which goes inside “a global black box of migration, surveillance and control', premiered in the main competition at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen on March 17 to a 4-star review in Variety. Scored by Core composer ROBBIE TEEHAN, the film takes us inside cutting-edge technology, including artificial intelligence and its role in surveillance, power politics and border control amid discussions about migration. The film will also screen at HotDocs in April.
Read more about the film in The Hollywood Reporter. Read the review in Variety.
Big congratulations to CEREMONY for winning the SXSW audience award in the Documentary Spotlight section of the SXSW Film & TV Festival.
Scored by Core composer JESSE ZUBOT, Nuxalk filmmaker Banchi Hanuse's documentary traces the vanished ooligan run, uncovering a buried history of erasure and the quiet revolution of a Nation that refuses to disappear.
Read more about it in Playback.
Back by popular demand, Wild Cards returns with season 3 January 7 on CBC Gem, and January 26 on The CW. Scored by Core composer DAVE GENN, the blue-sky procedural follows the unlikely duo of Max (Vanessa Morgan), a spirited, clever con woman, and Ellis (Giacomo Gianniotti), a by-the-book, sardonic cop.