melrose middle school

kids animation (co-viewing)

The winning pitch at the 2019 Ottawa International Animation Festival’s Pitch This! competition, Melrose Middle School follows 12-year-old seventh graders and best friends, Max, Nikki, and Julian, as they try to navigate being preteens in the modern world at Melrose Middle.

Show optioned for development by Nelvana Inc. in 2021

Kids - 8-12
52 x 11 min
Cable or Digital
Tone/Humour: Recess and Hey Arnold!, with parallels to the pacing of The Loud House, the situational comedy from The Amazing World of Gumball, and the coming-of-age tales from Big Mouth.

Pitch written by Ali Kellner and David Elmaleh. Designs by Ali Kellner

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Lost and Found

animated workplace comedy (adult/CO-VIEWING)

Tag: “You’ve got to be lost to be found”

Four working-class friends find themselves employed at the local Lost and Found, where they help people find their lost items, at the same time, helping each other find themselves. An animated workplace comedy for the modern era.

22 min

Cable or Digital / VOD or AVOD
Tone/Humour: For the audience and humour styles of Bob’s Burgers, Regular Show and Welcome to the Wayne with the lore and mystery of Gravity Falls

Pitch written by Ali Kellner and David Elmaleh. Designs by Noam Sussman

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gold

Animated comedy (adult)

A primetime animated series revolving around Abe Gold and his dysfunctional family as they try to navigate a normal life and keep their 99-cent store afloat, all while being the only people in the world who know about the impending extinction of the human race.

Young Adult - 14+
13 x 22 min
Cable or Digital
Tone/Humour: Bobs Burgers meets Rick and Morty, satirical, relevent, topical, dark

Pitch written by Ali Kellner and David Elmaleh. Designs by Ali Kellner

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