Development Slate.
Aquarian Entertainment has a growing slate of original projects in development across film and television - dark comedies, thrillers, and dramas that put unconventional characters at the centre of extraordinary situations. Every project on this slate is rooted in a Canadian creative perspective and built for international resonance.
Television Projects.
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Written by Peter Petralia
Dark Comedy | TV, Hour Long
A blocked ex-model owes her agent a memoir she can't bring herself to write — until a night with her oldest friends gives her a far more dangerous story to tell, and a far more dangerous group of people to betray.
Status: Packaging.
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Written by Peter Petralia
Comedy | TV, Half Hour
When a 54-year-old gay man discovers amateur boxing, he’s forced to confront a lifetime of making himself smaller, one punch at a time.
Status: Packaging
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Written by Peter Petralia
Procedural | TV, Hour Long
A one-eyed ex-detective with an uncanny connection to nature buys a dying small-town newspaper and discovers that every strange story he chases pulls him deeper into the town’s inexplicable energy, closer to the sergeant he can’t stop sparring with, and face to face with the past he came here to escape.
Status: Pitching
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Written by Kat Geborys & Peter Petralia, inspired by the book Martini Wonderland by Seth Schechter
Drama | TV, Hour Long
In 1980s America, a broke young lawyer-turned-fixer gets sucked into the hedonistic world of a corrupt liquor kingpin and slowly trades his morals for obscene wealth and power.
Status: Packaging
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Created by Kat Geborys, co-written with Peter Petralia
Dark Comedy | TV, Hour Long
After a life-threatening diagnosis, a Polish booze marketer in London must go sober, challenging her party-girl identity and the relentless hustle to climb the ranks in the industry boys’ club.
Status: Packaging
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Written by Peter Petralia
Dark Comedy | TV, Hour Long
A 70-year-old ex-con inherits a home in Florida's most exclusive retirement community and promptly declares war on the HOA.
Status: Packaging
Film Projects.
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Written by Peter Petralia
Magical Realist Drama
When a blocked queer filmmaker travels to rural British Columbia to lure a forgotten screen legend out of retirement, they forge an unlikely bond through shared grief, unfinished mourning, and the dangerous joy of making something true.
Status: Packaging
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Written by Peter Petralia
Psychological Thriller
A grieving man undergoes radical genetic surgery to become unrecognizable to the younger man he loves—convinced that only by hiding who he is beneath new skin will his love be returned.
Status: Packaging
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Written by Peter Petralia
Drama Feature
When a closeted boxer gets a shot at the championship, a leaked photo with the man he loves triggers a ruthless cover-up that wins him the belt but forces him to choose who he’ll be when the spotlight finally fades.
Status: Financing and Pre-production
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Written by Peter Petralia
Psychological Thriller
An emotionally shut-down chemist races to release his empathy drug on the world before his employer can weaponize it — and discovers that engineered compassion comes with a cost humanity may not be ready to pay.
Status: Packaging
We’re Just Getting Started
This slate represents the first chapter. As Aquarian grows, we’ll expand to develop and produce projects by other writers and directors - artists whose stories of queer life, aging, gender, and unconventional experience deserve the same commitment we bring to our own work. If that’s you, we want to hear from you.
Get In Touch.
Interested in working together? We are actively looking for co-producers and other partners to help bring our projects to life.
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