Dramatic Features

Producer Leah Mallen will be attending the Canne sFilm Festival to promote and distribute several projects in develop including "Camera Shy" a feature film by Mark Sawers and "Coast Modern" a documentary by Michael Bernard and Gavin Froome.   For meeting requests contact info@twofold.ca  

An ambitious city councilman has his life turned upside down when he discovers that his every move is being filmed by a camera crew that only he can see.   Directed by Cannes award-winning Mark Sawers.  Funded by Telefilm Canada. Seeking sales and distribution, slated for festival release Spring 2012   Contact leah@twofold.ca

Written by: Leah Mallen In development, first draft Logline: The complex circumstances of a beautiful singer’s career, love and untimely death tragically affect her son’s life; Marco searches through the echo of his mother’ legacy of music and songs and finds the clues to his own misery. Synopsis: Marco mourns the death of his famous singer mother Sonja, and cannot connect to the people around him in his life. He succeeds in his work - as a high-end hotel music consultant business, but at night, alone, he listens to the sounds of his mother’s voice on her records, wishing he could...

A feature film Cul-de-sac is a dark comedy about a dysfunctional suburban family trying to cope with life in their neighborhood after a major catastrophe brings the world to it’s knees. Suddenly there's no government, no electricity, no internet, no Starbucks. The story follows the family as they try to adapt to their new, pioneer-like, reality. Eventually they come to realize that if they can manage to stick together as a family, there may be hope for civilization after all … Writer/Director: Mark Sawers Producer: Leah Mallen In development with Telefilm Canada

Produced by Screen Siren Pictures.  A play adaptation by Vancouver's Electric Company Theatre, and Produced by Leah Mallen and Trish Dolman. A groundbreaking musical drama about a scientist whose own genetic history threatens her career, her lab and her life. Dr. Magnusson is a brilliant geneticist racing to isolate a cancer-causing gene. All that’s standing in her way is competition from a well-funded French lab, her ticking biological clock, a risky office romance, and the fear that she might carry the same Huntington’s gene that prematurely ended her mother’s life. Based on the award-winning...