ROWAN NIELSEN
WRITER + DIRECTOR + FILMMAKER
FEATURE FILM
Nightrunners
Writer + Director
Feature Length Psychological Thriller -2017
Produced by: High Park Entertainment + Plus8Pictures Inc.
Nominated for a Best Feature Film Kalasha Award (Kenya’s equivalent of the Academy Awards)
iTunes: https://apple.co/2JBjC9g
DIGITAL SERIES
In The Grid
Director
Digital Series, 2009
5 x 4 minute episodes
Finalist for the NexTv Web Series Competition
Produced by: Peace Point Entertainment Group
COMMERCIALS
Winners ® with Nikki Yanofsky
Director
Bravo TV + Facebook/Twitter Campaign
"Back To School" 2010
Agency: ALEX GOSSE + SUSAN McCALLUM
3 x 45 seconds - English
3 x 45 seconds - French
3 x 45 seconds - English + French
TELEVISION
Bump TV
Writer + Director
LGBT International Travel Lifestyle Television (2008-2012)
Produced by: Peace Point Entertainment Group + Pink Triangle Press
OutTV (Canada + Netherlands) + LogoTV (USA)
3 seasons (56 X 30 min episodes)
* Winner of 2010 Hugo Award
** Winner of Platinum EMPixx Award
WRITING
In Development:
BARR RIVER BLUES
Feature length screenplay
Drama / Young Adult / LGBTQ
*nominated for the 2018 Inside Out / Telefilm “Talent to Watch” program
A queer teen on the cusp of adulthood must save himself and the small town he loves by making an unthinkable choice —leaving.
LUCID
Feature length screenplay
Sci Fi Thriller / LGBTQ
*winner of WIFT-T Development Incubator program
*Currently being adapted to a Limited Series
A former employee of a global pharmaceutical corporation finds herself out on the street with her memory wiped but a range of burgeoning superhuman abilities hinting at an advanced drug trial gone wrong.
SOME WITCH WAY
Web series
Comedy
After casting a love spell from a Continuing Education course, a lonely accounting clerk is forced to compete for the heart of a questionable star on a bachelor-style reality show.
LEAGUE OF (MOSTLY) ORDINARY CITIZENS
Web Series
Comedy
An eclectic circle of strangers with nothing in common but their “Delusions of Grandeur” self-help group band together to battle wrong-doers using their (mostly) micro-superpowers with largely unexpected and generally insufficient results.
NETHERWORLDER
Feature length screenplay
Fantasy / Young Adult
A young girl discovers a portal to another Earth where magic, not science, reigns and her powers, latent on her own Earth, manifest as a secret family legacy that may consume both realms.
BETTER TIMES
Short Film screenplay
Drama / LGBTQ
In the near future, a delegate for the North American alliance faces off against an old flame in the highly politicized renegotiation of the “East African Aid Package” where the political becomes very, very personal.
SMALL MINDS
Short Film screenplay
Drama / LGBTQ
*selected to the Inside Out / BravoFact competition
Attending her daughter’s school speech teaches a lesbian mother the true wisdom in keeping an open mind and provides her shy daughter the confidence to speak up in front of the whole class.
For more information on any of these projects please contact Rowan: rowan@rowannielsen.com or through the contact page.
ABOUT
Rowan is a writer and director in film, television and digital. She currently resides in Toronto, Canada though her work has brought her around the world. For more information on Rowan's projects click here.
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