![]() screenwriting competitions.Ī half-hour dramedy that imagines a world where too many people have saved too little money and amassed too much debt.In A’s debut novel, an update of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, a Nashville woman struggles with perfectionism, attraction to a Hindu filmmaker, and an overbearing mother. Named a Top 5 FINALIST at the BlueCat Screenwriting Competition, ranked in the top 10 of U.S. Set in the late 1980s, this darkly comic TV series is about an unscrupulous waterbed salesman who tries to cheat his fate when a beautiful psychic tells him he’s going to die in seven days. In the tense aftermath of the Battle of Little Big Horn, James Walsh, one of Canada’s first Mounted Police officers, risks everything when he forms an unlikely friendship with the most “notorious” Indigenous Chief of all time, Sitting Bull, in this incredible true story. Based on the soon-to-be-published biography, The Horse In The Moon by Walsh’s great-great niece, Lucretia Grindle.Īfter the French and British armies try and fail, the underdog Canadian Corps must rethink the art of war to try and capture, against all odds, an impregnable German stronghold that could turn the tide of World War I in this limited series based on the best-selling book Vimy by iconic author Pierre Berton. screenwriting competitions.ĪDAM BEACH is attached to play Sitting Bull. Named a Top 10 FINALIST at the Final Draft Screenwriting Competition, ranked in the top 10 of U.S. Mad Keen Pictures is a Toronto-based production company founded by Bill Keenan. “ Eating Buccaneers is one of the funniest movies I’ve seen in a long time.” Cinefest Sudbury International Film Festival “This absurdist dark comedy is one of the most relentlessly funny Canadian films of this or any year… Eating Buccaneers is a confidently constructed debut feature film.” Victoria Film Festival “The old plane-crash-in-the-wilderness genre gets a very funny reworking. “Think Lost but funny.” Simon Houpt, The Globe and Mail “Sharply written…3 cheers for Buccaneers!” Jim Slotek, Toronto Sun “ Eating Buccaneers is laugh-out-loud funny!” Terry O’Reilly, CBC Radio ![]() “The film is funny, ferocious and full of bitter wit.a sharp slice of absurdity.” Chris Alexander, Metro News ![]() It was also nominated for five Canadian Comedy Awards-including Best Writer for Bill.īill has now left advertising to focus on film and TV projects. Later it played on The Movie Network (now Crave TV) and HBO Canada. After playing film festivals around North America (it was nominated for Best Direction at the Long Island International Film Festival), Eating Buccaneers opened theatrically in Toronto and Vancouver. The Homework Bureau screened at film festivals around North America (“A wonderful film.” – Palm Springs International Film Festival) before being broadcast on The Comedy Network and Global Television (“hilarious”).īill made his feature debut with Eating Buccaneers. Later, Bill entered advertising, first as an award-winning copywriter for many of Toronto’s top agencies, then as a creative director, still writing but now managing teams of creatives.īill co-wrote, directed and produced an award-winning 18-minute short comedy called The Homework Bureau that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (“a dead-on satire of television cop shows”). After graduating, Bill joined The Second City Touring Company, where he performed and improvised comedy sketches throughout Ontario. ![]() Bill studied film and television at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) in Toronto.
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