Plucked Productions
From producer Rebecca Rogers, PLUCKED is an independent, genre-bending media production company– producing bold, socially conscious works.
FILM/TV WORKS
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Narrative Feature Film, Completing post April 2024, dir. Hubert Davis
Rebecca Rogers has taken THE WELL from packaging, through financing & production, and into post at the right hand of Producer Coral Aiken at Aiken Heart Films from October 2021—present.
THE WELL is the highly anticipated, narrative debut from Academy Award-nominated director Hubert Davis. To be released globally by XYZ Films in 2025.
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Short Film, 2019, dir. Jackie Batsinduka
A daughter estranged from her mother returns home to confront their past, and its intrinsic link to the 1994 Rwandan genocide against the Tutsis.
Official Selection by Regent Park Film Festival 2019, Toronto Lift-Off Film Festival 2020, and Montreal Black Film Festival 2020. Screened by the Feminist Art Collective, the Humming Collective, and Listen, Explore & Learn.
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Limited Webseries, 2022, Co-Created, -Produced, -Written & -Hosted by Rebecca Rogers & Jackie Batsinduka
Hosted by IRL BFFLs Jackie Batsinduka and Rebecca Rogers, SLUMBER PARTY is a webseries that untangles teenage and young adulthood from Y2K to today. Through the hosts’ nostalgic yet critical take on growing up in the age of the internet, SLUMBER PARTY tries to make sense of the overly mediated lives of its hosts and viewers through video essays, interviews, and sketches.
Generously supported by the Indigenous Screen Office’s Solidarity Fund for BIPOC Creators.
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Short Dance Film, In Development 2024, dir. Coral Aiken
A dark-comedy dance short about the Dancing Plague. Frau, a shy young woman in modern-day Toronto, can’t stop dancing. She has to solve the mystery of her dancing mania before it kills her.
ChoreoMania sees the return of Coral Aiken to the world of dance and directing after a decade of independent producing.
FUNDS/GRANTS CONSULT
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Independent Film Producing / Slate Development & Packaging, 2020–Present.
Successful Canadian public financing through applications for Telefilm Canada, Ontario Creates, and Canada Media Fund.
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Grant Writer / Communications Coordinator, 2019-2020.
Successful Canada Council for the Arts application and Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign.
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Proposal Writer / Researcher, Social Impact Media Agency, 2019-2021.
Worked globally with clients across the non-profit, public, and private sectors.
Researched RFPs and created proposals to bid on large scale video and interactive multimedia projects.
Successful proposals include gamified eLearning platforms for IOM UN Migraton, World Health Organization, and LiUNA Local 183, as well as instructional videos for Maryland Courts.
