Recent Projects

Hello, Darling - Shelagh Carter

Passionflower - Feature Film
(formerly Hello, Darling)

In 1962, an artistic girl uses her creativity and inner strength to help her family face the reality of her mother's mental illness.

Visit the official website.

Stay updated at the Facebook page.

Writer: Shelagh Carter

Director: Shelagh Carter

Director of Photography: Andrew Forbes

Status: At Festivals

Medium: RED Camera
Playing in Traffic digital media site

Playing in Traffic

Collaborative online digital media project
Submissions from other creators welcome.
Contributors:
Kevin Nikkel, Chris Nikkel, Polly Washburn

Medium: multi-disciplinary content on web

The Red Hood

The Red Hood - Short

The Red Hood is a re-telling of the traditional fable Little Red Riding Hood set in rural Manitoba during the Great Depression. The director has created a work of lyrical realism that deconstructs the tale’s underlying gender moral.

 

Writer/Director: Danishka Esterhazy

Director of Photography:
Paul Suderman

Status: Festival circuit.

Medium: RED Camera

Black Field

Black Field - Feature Film (Line Producer)

A dark historical drama set in 19th century rural Manitoba, a gothic tale of two sisters, the man who comes between them, and the tragedy that results.

Writer/Director: Danishka Esterhazy

Director of Photography:
Paul Suderman

Status: Available on DVD

Medium: 35 mm

Official site

     
 

The Innate... - Short

In a dream-like vision, a man visits the death bed of a woman whose son he accidentally caused to drown, when he was himself a child. 

Writer/Director: Stephan Reckseidler

Director of Photography:
Paul Suderman

Status: Festival submission.

Medium: RED Camera

 

In Development

Shooting Party - Feature Film

Attempting to avenge the brutal murder of her sister, a rookie small
town female cop realises that no one wants the case solved.    

Co-producer with Geordie Sabagh Productions

Writer: Deborah Schnitzer

Director: Shelagh Carter

Status: Script development, financing. Production dates: Spring/Summer 2012.



Aurora - Feature Film

A troubled Hollywood starlet is sent to small-town Canada for rehab, and becomes entangled with a reluctant semi-retired tabloid photographer.   

Writer/Director: Danishka Esterhazy

Status: Financing

 

 

Winterpeg - Feature Film

When her parents die, Scarlett, a teenage Toronto party girl is shipped off to Winnipeg to live with relatives she has never known. All she wants is to get back to her life in Toronto -- even if she has to make everyone around her as miserable as she is, and even if she is starting to thaw out from the warmth of her aunt, uncle and dorky-hot cousin.

Writers: Danishka Esterhazy, Polly Washburn, Iain MacLeod

Director: Iain MacLeod

Status: Script revision

   

Yellowhead - Feature Film

A hitchhiker uses a Bolex camera to record his journey down the Yellowhead highway from Winnipeg to Jasper, capturing remembrances that are as much about him as they are about the people and poetic landscape.

Writer/Director/Co-producer: Kevin Nikkel

Director of Photography: Steve Morrison

Status: Financing.


Home