Catalyst Shows & Selections
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2020 Official Selections
Avocado Toast: The Series
Comedy
Ever wondered about your parents' sex life? Neither did Molly and Elle until coming out and divorce forced them to learn. After a lifetime of dating men, Molly surprises herself when she falls in love with a woman for the first time.
Crescendo
Drama
An outwardly ambitious and charismatic opera singer fights to maintain her stature and career path while silently struggling.
Distemper
Drama
Distemper tells the true story of pathologist and LGBT icon Louise Pearce as she works to find a cure for African Trypanosomiasis as it infects millions across the Belgian Congo.
Fully Formed Adults
Comedy
A series of awkward interactions between Gen X and Millennials.
Group
Drama
You don't really know yourself until you look through someone else's eyes.
It's What She Would Have Wanted
Comedy
Maggie welcomes four of her oldest friends back home after the unexpected death of one of their own. She convinces them to fulfill a childhood pact - destroy all evidence of their friend's most embarrassing secrets.
La Ruta
Drama
How far would you go for a better life?
Lucia crosses the Suchiate river with her daughter Carmen heading for the U.S. border, but when the harsh realities of La Ruta De La Muerte (The Route of Death) push them to a breaking point, their survival instincts kick in, forcing them to make unimaginable choices.
Progeny
Drama
This is a world exactly like ours, except that the wealthy elites are aliens, living and working among us, but with one key difference: they reproduce by implanting their offspring in a human host who raises the alien child as his own.
Public Writer
Drama
Mathieu is a public writer in a poor neighbourhood of Montreal. For the past years, he discovered that his job is more about people than literature. He must first listens and then finds the right words for those who can’t write.
Queens
Comedy
QUEENS is a comedy-mystery whodunnit following an eclectic
cast of Toronto drag queens leading up to the night of the Miss Church Street pageant. Who among them is the saboteur? Or, rather, saboteuse? Available until Oct 16.
Sidestep
Drama
A woman finds herself torn between the bustle of her New York life and the quaint dance floors of her home in Texas.
Story of You
Dramedy
When Jayne, a pregnant kindergarten teacher in the middle of an affair discovers the man who raised her isn't actually her father, the story of her life begins to quickly unravel.
The Notion Show
Dark Comedy
A mockumentary about a dark web reality show in which a psychotic host makes unbeknownst contestants play games for their lives.
Timberwood
Comedy
When our long-term counselors return for the summer of their lives, they think they'll be picking up right where they left off last year. But... this isn't the summer they planned, but maybe it will end up being their best one yet!
Wild Lands Wild Horses
Documentary
America's wild horses are in crisis.
Caught in the crossfire over land use rights and a shrinking wild landscape, America's wild horses are struggling to survive.
2019 Series, Script & Podcast Selections
Browse the selections below to read show descriptions & watch trailers from previous years.