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MAZE OF LIFE (2025)
Music and artistic authenticity feature
MAZE OF LIFE is a powerful Hip Hop-driven examination of the Black immigrant experience, resonating deeply with those who navigate cultural duality while fighting to place their authentic intuition and artistic dreams in the driver's seat of their lives.
This story unfolds through the visceral journey of a Black diasporic artist grappling with the intergenerational tension between familial expectation and personal destiny. His struggle is two-fold: simultaneously carving out a professional space as an artist while battling the microaggressions and systemic isolation of a predominantly white environment. The physical and cultural displacement—from Jamaica to Canada, and the urban hub of Toronto to the relative cultural isolation of Victoria—creates a persistent, underlying emotional discourse around identity, belonging, and the sense of community erosion.
Kadance Productions and SJO Productions Partnership
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THE SPELL CASTER
Parallel timelines alternative historical episodic drama
Spanning parallel timelines across the Canadian Maritimes, The Spell Caster is a high-stakes drama series in which magic functions as the land's fundamental physics. The narrative follows a multi-lineage coven—anchored by a water-bound cafeteria cook and guided by ancestral rhythms—as they wage a vibrational "war of frequencies" against an ancient dark sorcerer and his institutional vessels. Weaving modern civic unrest with historical waves of colonization, forced displacement, and ecological destruction, this compelling multi-timeline serial explores how ancestral memory and vibrational harmony become the ultimate weapons against low-frequency dissonance.
Rabid Darkness
Elevated genre horror franchise
Kadence Productions has partnered with Dog N Fun Productions to launch an electrifying new horror franchise.
If all existence begins with a single source of energy—one origin we all share—what happens to that energy when we die?
After a devastating accident, Jack is pulled back from the edge of death. But he doesn’t return alone. An ancient, malevolent force slips through with him, slowly seizing his body and mind and unleashing chaos on everyone in its path. As its influence spreads and its power swells, the fate of humanity teeters on the brink.
Kadance Productions and Dog N' Fun Productions
THE EAST SIDE
1983 nostalgic feature film
A Canadian coming-of-age comedy set in a 1980s small town in Manitoba. Producer Ken Shapkin's personal life story centers on a car rally to build community and save his father's record store from new competition. Full of 80s tropes and depictions of life in the prairies in oppressive times. A gay teen struggles to find himself and deal with sibling rivalry, bands together with friends, and enters the car rally on their 10-speed bikes. As his Sisters' duelling love interests compete not only for the trophy but her affection, they pull out every stop in the book to prevent the other team from clinching the prize.
The Middle
Supernatural drama episodic series
Kadence Productions, with Moon Productions' founder Carmen Thompson (Diitiidaht/Kyuquot/Coast Salish), presents: The Middle, a supernatural coming-of-age drama rooted in Indigenous cosmology. Tai’s body shifts as the first signs of The Middle take hold; their world fractures into two realities: the ordinary life of school, identity, and family conflict, and the emerging responsibility of a guardian-in-training. The deeper Tai is pulled into The Middle, the more they must learn what it means to belong to a lineage they never asked for.
This is a story of transformation — physical, spiritual, and emotional — and what it costs a young person when destiny arrives before they feel ready to hold it.
ROOTS AND LEGACY
2024 short film
THE FAST RUNNER
2024 short film
Kadance Production's Ken Shapkin is honoured to be a part of the team of producers working with David Bercovici-Artieda to bring this story to screens and classrooms around the world!
'The Fast Runner is a story of love, perseverance, and the human will to survive. Following the life of a young Jewish girl in Poland during the holocaust. This heart-touching story acts as a historical tool of education against the ongoing antisemitic violence and discrimination that is still ongoing in today's world.
VICTORIA'S ORIGINAL JOINT
2025 documentary
Producer/Director Michael 'Oz' Osbourne joins forces with Kadence Productions' Ken Shapkin to Co-produce a Documentary on the premier Victoria's Italian eatery, Pagliacci's. Join us as we examine how the Siegel Family has built Community through Food, and Music, opening their doors to the community and treating costumers like family! Inclusivity, Diversity and Equality are the core principles of this establishment. Come experience live music and world-class hospitality while dining in this unique establishment that isn't afraid to stand up for what they believe!
Victoria's Original Joint - Telus Storyhive - YouTube
BETTER EVERY DAY
2021 Short film
Follow the Journey of Star and Dre as they embark on an adventure of a life time. Will this newlywed couple make it on there Cruise Ship contract and share there positive outlook and electro beats! Find out Better Every Day will be airing at a Film Festival Near you!
Premier 2023 VFF CineVic Short Showcase
KIRI AND THE GIRL
2020 Short film
Canada Council For The Arts Grant Recipient
'Kiri and The Girl’ is a story of connection, following a young girl as she grieves her mother and is led by symbols and shadows to reclaim her heritage. It is based on the experiences of Tlingit artist and Pow Wow dancer Kiri Geen who studied Northwest Coast Art after her adoption.
Premiered 2021 Vancouver Film Festival!
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