April | Nominee Roundup
In anticipation of the 2024 Canadian Screen Awards, we’ve gathered together an array of works from this year’s nominees. Explore and celebrate emerging and established Canadian talent in this collection. For the full list of 2024 nominees, visit our website and make sure to check out the “Where to Watch” button on each nominee page to see where it is available to stream.
Watch The 2024 Canadian Screen Awards hosted by Mae Martin on Friday, May 31 at 8:00 PM (9 AT / 9:30 NT) only on CBC and CBC Gem. For the full Canadian Screen Week 2024 schedule, click here.
Content Warning:
Some of the projects included in this collection deal with topics that may be distressing. Viewer discretion is advised – please check ratings and warnings on individual selections before engaging.
Best in Miniature
3 Nominations including Best Reality/Competition Program or Series
Ten elite artists from across Canada and the world go to epic lengths to create their ultimate miniature home, one pocket-sized room at a time. Each week one miniaturist will be sent home while the others continue to compete for the $15,000 grand prize.
Black Community Mixtapes
5 Nominations including Best Direction, Documentary Series
KhaRå Martin, a young filmmaker and actor embarks on a quest to rediscover significant Black social movements in Canada. Black Community Mixtapes breathes new life into the personal archives gathered by individual Canadians and shines a light on life-changing moments that ignited Canadian Black History.
Bollywed
2 Nominations including Best Factual Series
Bollywed is a heartwarming docuseries centred around the Singh family, who have been operating the iconic bridal shop, Chandan Fashion, in Toronto’s Little India for almost 40 years.
The Drop
5 Nominations including Best Web Program or Series, Fiction
Zara and Polly #werk in Toronto as “professional” line-waiters – hired by the rich and lazy to stand in line for exclusive products the day they DROP. A biting satire on modern-day consumerism, transactional friendships, and the ever-expanding wealth gap. Writer/Director/Producer/Star, Aisha Evelyna is an alum of the 2022/2023 WBD Access x Canadian Academy Writers Program.
Interstellar Ella
Nominated for Best Animated Program or Series
The year is 3021. The place is the Milky Way, where eight-year-old Ella gleefully heads out with her friends on exciting adventures of discovery. At only eight, she already knows quite a bit about space… but there is always more to explore! With Slippy and Madhu, her besties, Ella navigates the challenges that come her way.
Invincible
2 Nominations including Best Live Action Short Drama | Meilleur court métrage de fiction
Inspired by a true story, Invincible recounts the last 48 hours in the life of Marc-Antoine Bernier, a 14-year-old boy on a desperate quest for freedom.
Little Bird
19 Nominations including Best Drama Series
Little Bird is a six-part limited series about an Indigenous woman on a journey to find her birth family and uncover the hidden truth of her past. Bezhig Little Bird was adopted into a Jewish family at the age of five, becoming Esther Rosenblum. Now in her 20s, Bezhig longs for the family she lost during the “Sixties Scoop.”
Solo
4 Nominations including Best Motion Picture | Meilleur film
Emerging Montreal drag queen Simon must deal with two impossible loves: a passionate, yet destructive affair, with Oliver and a cold relationship with his mother, who’s just returned after a 15-year absence. Editor Marie-Pier Dupuis is an alum of the Academy’s 2022/2023 Women in Post program.
Streams Flow from a River
4 Nominations including Best Direction, Web Program or Series
A freak snowstorm traps a dysfunctional Chinese Canadian family together in their rural Albertan hometown, forcing them to confront the events a decade prior that tore them all apart. Director Christopher Yip is a participant in the 2023/2024 WBD Access x Canadian Academy Directors Program.
*Also available on Prime Video
Venba
Nominated for Best Video Game
Venba is a short narrative cooking game, where you play as an Indian mom who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversations, and explore South Indian food in this story about family, love, and loss.
*Also available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox
