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A River Heights resident is writing a limited drama thriller series as part of a program through the National Screen Institute –<\/em>Canada’s series incubator program.<\/p>\n

“I’ve always been writing, as is the background for most writers,” Jessica Landry, 35, said.<\/p>\n

“I started writing prose, mainly short fiction, and mostly did horror because that’s my favourite genre. Over the past few years, I’ve segued into screenwriting.”<\/p>\n

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Supplied photo\nJessica Landry (pictured above) and her partner, Hannah Johnson, are writing and producing a limited drama thriller series titled Ghosts of Lakeland through the National Screen Institute Series Incubator program.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n

The NSI series incubator is an eight-month, four-phase program for producer and writer teams from under-represented communities.<\/p>\n

The in-depth training program helps participants develop a scripted series with support and guidance from experienced industry professionals. The result is a series proof-of-concept film, including a stand-alone short film, a scene from the series or a promotional trailer.<\/p>\n

Participants also receive up to $28,000 in cash and in-kind support to film a proof-of-concept for the series.<\/p>\n

The limited series Landry will be writing is a drama thriller called Ghosts of Lakeland<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“It’s kind of in the vein of Sharp Objects<\/em> and Big Littles Lies<\/em>,” she said. “It’s about a mother and daughter living in a small Manitoba town and the daughter goes missing, and it’s up to the mother to figure out what happened.”<\/p>\n

Landry, who has Métis heritage and is a member of the Manitoba Métis Federation, is no stranger to the world of filmmaking. Her original horror feature, My Only Sunshine<\/em>, was accepted into Whistler Film Festival’s 2020 Screenwriters Lab and is in development with Eagle Vision. She’s written for a variety of television projects, including Strays<\/em> (CBC), Heartland Homicide<\/em> (Farpoint Films), 7th Gen<\/em> (Eagle Vision\/APTN) and several movies of the week.<\/p>\n

Landry is currently adapting the best-selling novels April Raintree<\/em> (Eagle Vision) and Leaving the Witness<\/em> (Sir Harry Films) and was recently selected for the CFC\/Netflix project development accelerator with her original horror\/comedy series Catastrophe Queens<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Landry was looking for something to help her focus on properly telling a story when she came across the Series Incubator program online.<\/p>\n

“There’s always new people to meet, and the industry is pretty big but pretty small at the same time, so it’s good to get your name out there,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I wrangled my producer, Hannah Johnson, saying I think we should do this. Then we got the email, and it was like, ‘OK, we’re really doing it now.’”<\/p>\n

Landry and Johnson had previously worked together at local production company Eagle Vision.<\/p>\n

“I’m lucky to have her supporting me and us working together through this program to hopefully get it done,” Landry said.<\/p>\n

More information on the National Screen Institute series incubator program can be found at www.nsi-canada.ca\/courses\/nsi-series-incubator\/<\/a><\/p>

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