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Manikas Productions, Toronto, ON (2026)

10/10/2025

Happy Birthday (belated) to the great and powerful Rony Valencia! We were so lucky to have you out on this one!

He’s a great friend and an excellent AD. Check out these behind the scenes photos from Cancer Kid!

📷 Michael Thai Nguyen

09/25/2025

Today Cancer Kid will be having its European Premier at the 11th annual Alexandria Short Film Festival.

This festival brings together films from all over the world to the north of Greece, with a special focus this year on Balkan Cinema.

We are so thankful to have our film screened here this year!

09/21/2025

We are very proud to announce that Cancer Kid won the Best Short Film (Jury Award) at this years TO Indie Film Festival

Thank you so much to the jury, to the festival organizers, and to the audiences that came out to watch all the wonderful films selected to screen this year.

09/14/2025

We are very excited to announce that Cancer Kid will be participating in this year’s Greek International Film Festival Tour of Canada!

GIFFT provides a platform for filmmakers of Greek Heritage to showcase their work across North America.

Cancer Kid will be screening at the GIFFT Short Film Showcase on Wednesday October 1st, 2025 at the Innis Theatre (University of Toronto).

It will also be screened prior to the feature film STELIOS as a part of the festivals closing night presentation on Sunday October 5th, 2025 at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema.

You can purchase tickets through Empiria Events. The links are in our Bio!

06/13/2025

We had an incredible time premiering Cancer Kid at the Blue Mountain Film Festival, where we were honoured to receive the Best Short Film Award.

It was such a joy to share the screening with many of our wonderful cast members. A big thank you to for providing the award prize.

Stay tuned for more highlights and updates as Cancer Kid continues its festival run!

06/13/2025

We had an incredible time premiering Cancer Kid at the Blue Mountain Film Festival, where we were honoured to receive the Best Short Film Award.

It was such a joy to share the screening with many of our wonderful cast members. A big thank you to for providing the award prize.

Stay tuned for more highlights and updates as Cancer Kid continues its festival run!

05/20/2025

We are excited to announce that our newest short film Cancer Kid will be premiering at this years Blue Mountain Film+Media Festival on July 1st.

After all of the hard work put into this project both during filming and post-production I’m very happy to begin to showcasing this film publicly. Every frame is a testament to the love and dedication of all the people involved.

For tickets go to and check out their Canadian Shorts program.
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09/27/2024

This past week Ring Neck had the amazing opportunity to screen at the 17th annual Arizona Underground Film Festival.

Thank you to the team at AUFF for making us a part of this years festival!

09/03/2024

Ring Neck goes to America! Our short film will be screening at the 25th Chicago Horror Film Festival. A weekend long celebration of the best horror films from the around the world.

We’re so excited to have Ring Neck be a part of this amazing festival!

07/29/2024

Thank you to Jason Gorber for giving Ring Neck a shoutout in his review of this years Fantasia Film Festival!

Check out the link in our bio to read the whole review and make sure to follow Jason’s cinematic musings at

07/28/2024

Ring Neck // Fantasia 2024

We’ve had such fun time premiering our short film at the Fantasia International Film Festival.

Thank you to the fantastic Carolyn Mauricette for selecting our film to be a part of the Septentrion Shadows line-up and for having us open for the excellent feature film Kryptic.

Thank you also to the whole Fantasia team for hosting such an amazing film festival. We are so grateful to have been a part of it.

07/03/2024

Great news everyone! Our short film Ring Neck will be premiering this summer at the 28th Fantasia International Film Festival! We are so excited to be screening at such an amazing festival with so many other great films.

Thank you to all our supporters for helping us get here!

We are also very thankful to the Ontario Arts Council for their support through their Media Artists Creation Grant.

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1st AD Kristian De Fransesco
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