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Hit On Me, a web series from writer Marvin Kaye, director Jeremy Lalonde and exec producer Lauren Corber (all NSI Totally Television), is a finalist in the 2017 edition of Beyond the Box: Playing It Short from Just For Laughs.

Finalists pitch to a panel of leading comedy industry executives and decision makers in an open-forum pitch session at Just For Laughs ComedyPRO on July 28 in Montreal.

Hit on Me is a romantic comedy about love, longing and killing people. Love or murder? Pick one. ‘Cause you’re too old for both.

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Congratulations to the NSI grads with films screening at this summer’s Gimli Film Festival in Manitoba:

• Bayline from JJ (Jenna) Neepin (NSI IndigiDocs) and Justina Neepin (CBC New Indigenous Voices, NSI IndigiDocs)

• Concerto from Angela Heck (NSI Features First)

• Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World from Catherine Bainbridge and Christina Fon (both NSI Global Marketing)

• Headdress from JJ Neepin, Justina Neepin and Craig Guiboche (CBC New Indigenous Voices)

• How the Savage Came To Be from Dinae Robinson (CBC New Indigenous Voices)

• Remains, Human from Cody Halcrow (CBC New Indigenous Voices) and Roger Boyer (CBC New Indigenous Voices, NSI Storytellers, NSI IndigiDocs)

• Menorca from John Barnard, Kyle Bornais and Chris Charney (all NSI Features First)

• Limit is the Sky from Julia Ivanova (NSI Global Marketing)

• Ghost Hunters from Amanda Kindzierski (CBC New Indigenous Voices, NSI IndigiDocs)

• Sacred Womyn from Erica Daniels (CBC New Indigenous Voices)

• Restoring the Sacred from Andrew George (CBC New Indigenous Voices)

• C & J Forever from Roger Boyer

• A Better Man from Christine Kleckner (NSI Drama Prize)

Gimli Film Fest runs from July 26 to 30, 2017.

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