Half-Hour Dramatic Anthology
LOGLINE: Crafting modern fables, CANARIES utilizes magical realism and a disability-lens to explore the emotional dichotomies that make up the human condition in our unprecedented times.
Set in a familiar and modern world, CANARIES utilizes Amanda Leduc’s celebrated use of magical realism — and skillful telling of short stories — to examine timeless moral questions in the crafting of contemporary takes on fables, myths, parables and tales that distort and then transform our assumptions and stereotypes around the disability experience and its place in our human existence.
More fairy tale than speculative fiction, CANARIES is ROAR meets BLACK MIROR in these standalone, genre-spanning vignettes that are reflective of living with disability today. Created by disabled writers and centring (not always visibly) disabled characters — the series is much more than the stuff of fables. It ponders what it means to be human — and argues we are all connected in that humanity.
