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Detention Adventure, a new CBC Kids digital original from Joe Kicak (NSI Drama Prize), Ryan West and Karen Moore (both NSI Features First), is coming soon to a device near you.

The show follows three straight-A students as they team up with the school troublemaker to find a hidden treasure beneath the detention room.

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Keith Tomasek (NSI Drama Prize) recently won a Canadian Podcast Award for his podcast The Inadequate Life. The show was named outstanding cultural series.

Keith describes The Inadequate Life as a podcast about the creative process and the people whose lives depend on it. He talks to emerging and successful artists who share their insights into making their best work.

Read more about Keith and this award.

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Feature film Fire Song, from Adam Garnet Jones (Featuring Aboriginal Stories Program, NSI Storytellers, NSI Diverse TV Director) and Laura Milliken (Featuring Aboriginal Stories Program), has been adapted into a new novel written by Adam.

The book is published by Annick Press and is available starting March 13. A launch event, hosted by Glad Day Bookshop in Toronto, follows on March 21.

Fire Song follows the turmoil of Shane, a gay Anishnaabe teenager struggling to support his family in the aftermath of his sister’s suicide. Determined to take care of his mother, he is torn between his responsibilities at home and the promise calling to him from the city.

The film was accepted to the Telefilm Canada Micro-Budget Production Program in 2014 after being nominated by NSI.

Read a recent interview with Adam about Fire Song.

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Above: The Communist’s Daughter by Leah Cameron

Web series creators are working on their applications to the Independent Production Fund’s (IPF) Web Drama Series Program this month. The application process includes making a demo or trailer of the proposed series available online.

NSI grads are behind the following projects:

Witches of Parkdale

Natalie Urquhart (NSI Drama Prize, NSI Totally Television)

The Communist’s Daughter

Leah Cameron (NSI Drama Prize)

The Girl Code

Shannon Fewster (NSI Drama Prize)

What Got Did

Lauren Corber (NSI Totally Television)

If we missed your project, let us know!

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