George Johnson

Peace Pledge Budget: $5M - $10M | Drama ⋄ Historical A disillusioned First World War veteran, challenged by a reckless Anglican priest, reluctantly fights for peace against fascists in 1930s Britain, losing both friends and family but gaining a second chance in love. Based on the true story of Canon Dick Sheppard and the Peace Pledge Union, the strongest pacifist movement in history.

Boomerangst Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy After his wife kicks him out, a disillusioned, impulsive baby boomer forms a retirement commune in remote Toad Valley with his former high school rock band mates to get back to the garden of his youthful ideals of going green. They dig up more dirt almost than they can handle before uniting and rocking out against a mining company threatening to expropriate their land.

The Hampdenshire Wonder Budget: $1M - $5M | Sci-fi ⋄ Mystery An ambitious Edwardian journalist finds himself fighting to protect an uncannily precocious boy whose deformity might actually be a link to discovering the origin and true meaning of life.

Painter in the Storm Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama ⋄ Historical A rebellious young man wars with himself and others in his quest to paint the unworthy subject of Canada’s raw wilderness, but in Algonquin during the First World War he clashes one too many times with inhabitants, including a German-American spy. Based on the true story of Canada’s most misunderstood and mythologized painter Tom Thomson, who mysteriously died aged 39 at Canoe Lake in 1917.