Loglines & Screenplays by P.J. Marcellino

GENRES: Documentary, Experimental

When Philippe Séranne lands in Latvia in 1991, on the heels of its declaration of independence from the USSR, he finds its capital, Riga, on edge. This short animation/experimental music documentary depicts those unnerving days of tanks and MIGs, exploring protest, memory, and identity through the means of archival footage, music, and visual poetry.

GENRES: Historical, Documentary

In 1945, a young German officer is shot dead by Soviet soldiers in front of his Jewish Ukrainian wife, and his 4-year old daughter. Seventy years later, three generations reflect on the memories and untold psychological trauma of the Great War.

GENRES: Music, Documentary

When They Awake documents a remarkable generation of established and emerging Indigenous musicians in a moment of cultural and political resurgence. From Idle No More to Standing Rock and from festival stages to small club venues, Indigenous artists, from across Turtle Island are making their voices heard — and people are listening. Covering every music genre from Country to Hip Hop to Rock to EDM and beyond, this generation is challenging the pain of the past into a stirring, hopeful vision of the future.

GENRES: Music, Documentary

Told from the POV of eight global music stars, Terra Múzika: Land of Music is a sonic journey through the history of the famed Cape Verdean beats that conquered the world, exploring ancestral African heritage, slavery, memory, culture, identity, sense of place and the politics of belonging along the way.

GENRES: Thriller, Drama

When Nigeria's brutal oil-fueled military regime arrests and later executes writer and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, it sends shock waves around the world... and sends his brother's life into a tailspin. Fighting for Ken's life — and his own — Owens Wiwa becomes the reluctant hero in a dizzying political thriller based on a true story.

GENRES: Sci-fi, Drama

In the late 21st century, climate change brought chaos to the world, and the few million who survived sought refuge in a small verdant area of the African continent. Reduced to a single nation ruled by an increasingly totalitarian emergency government, the odds are high — and soon its heavy-handed pitting of survival vs. freedom attracts detractors.

GENRES: Sci-fi, Film-noir

A mysterious psychiatrist who invents a machine to translate thoughts into sounds and images. The friend who decides to test it, and his unsolved suicide mystery. A detective haunted by his dark past, relentlessly seeking resolution — of this case, and of his life. The backdrop of an ethnically diverse metropolis animated by complex Afropolitan characters and a frantic soundscape of Afrobeats. And a deep dive into the philosophical and moral questions surrounding an elusive, and perhaps dangerous machine that triggers the sequence of events in this series.