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Monika Mitchell

Monika Mitchell is a writer, director and producer known equally for both independent film and network television. Since her first short film, Night Deposit (1999), won Slamdance's "Anarchy" Audience Award in January of 2000, she has become an alumni of over 90 international film festivals, her four independent films garnering more than 20 "Best Picture" or "Audience" awards over the years. Begin…

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My Daughter's Disgrace

My Daughter's Disgrace · 2016

My Daughter's Disgrace

MovieDramaThriller

A high school senior’s life is turned upside down when photos of her naked body are distributed to a revenge porn website. Frustrated by police inaction, her mother takes the investigation into her own hands.

A Pickleball Christmas

A Pickleball Christmas · 2025

A Pickleball Christmas

MovieTV MovieRomance

Fresh off the biggest win of his career, tennis star Luke Hollis heads home to Florida for Christmas, only to discover his family’s racquet club is on the verge of being sold. Teaming up with Caroline, the club’s pickleball coach, Luke reluctantly agrees to compete in a high-stakes holiday tournament that could save the club. As sparks fly both on and off the court, Luke realizes the greatest victory might just be love, family, and a new chapter at home.

The Knight Before Christmas

The Knight Before Christmas · 2019

The Knight Before Christmas

MovieComedyRomance

A medieval English knight is magically transported to present day where he ends up falling for a high school science teacher.

Brazen

MovieThrillerMystery

Mystery writer Grace Miller has killer instincts when it comes to motive - and she'll need every bit of expertise to help solve her sister's murder.

Royal New Year's Eve

Royal New Year's Eve · 2017

Royal New Year's Eve

MovieRomanceTV Movie

An aspiring fashion designer falls in love with her socialite client's prospective fiance, Prince Jeffrey.

Break a Leg

Break a Leg · 2005

MovieComedyThriller

A talented but struggling actor is willing to go to any length to get a job - including "breaking a leg" - especially those of other actors!

John Apple Jack

John Apple Jack · 2013

John Apple Jack

MovieComedyRomance

A playboy learns to love, while a virgin learns to live -- a queer romantic comedy set inside the restaurant industry... 'John Apple Jack' brings East and West together to create one sumptuously heart-warming dish. When John discovers his sister's fiance is Jack, his childhood crush, passions ignite and his life spirals out of control... losing his job, his playboy reputation and his underwear, all while rushing to the altar to finally confess his love!

The Christmas Contract

The Christmas Contract · 2018

The Christmas Contract

MovieTV MovieRomance

It’s Jolie’s first time going back home to Louisiana since her devastating break-up with Foster Burke. Seeing him is inevitable as their parents run the town’s annual Christmas Market together, but when she discovers Foster is bringing home a new girlfriend, Jolie cannot bear the thought of going home alone and seeing them together. Her best friend Naomi suggests that Jolie bring her flaky brother, Jack, home for Christmas as he has no plans this year. Jolie, a professional web designer, is hesitant; so, Naomi, a lawyer, creates a Christmas contract to give them both something they want—a buffer for those awkward moments around Jolie’s ex and a website to help sell Jack’s upcoming novel. Unbeknownst to them, the Christmas contract proves to be so much more than what they signed up for.

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My Daughter's Disgrace

My Daughter's Disgrace · 2016

My Daughter's Disgrace

MovieDramaThriller

A high school senior’s life is turned upside down when photos of her naked body are distributed to a revenge porn website. Frustrated by police inaction, her mother takes the investigation into her own hands.

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A Pickleball Christmas

A Pickleball Christmas · 2025

A Pickleball Christmas

MovieTV MovieRomance

Fresh off the biggest win of his career, tennis star Luke Hollis heads home to Florida for Christmas, only to discover his family’s racquet club is on the verge of being sold. Teaming up with Caroline, the club’s pickleball coach, Luke reluctantly agrees to compete in a high-stakes holiday tournament that could save the club. As sparks fly both on and off the court, Luke realizes the greatest victory might just be love, family, and a new chapter at home.

Director

The Knight Before Christmas

The Knight Before Christmas · 2019

The Knight Before Christmas

MovieComedyRomance

A medieval English knight is magically transported to present day where he ends up falling for a high school science teacher.

Director

Brazen

MovieThrillerMystery

Mystery writer Grace Miller has killer instincts when it comes to motive - and she'll need every bit of expertise to help solve her sister's murder.

Director

Royal New Year's Eve

Royal New Year's Eve · 2017

Royal New Year's Eve

MovieRomanceTV Movie

An aspiring fashion designer falls in love with her socialite client's prospective fiance, Prince Jeffrey.

Director

Break a Leg

Break a Leg · 2005

MovieComedyThriller

A talented but struggling actor is willing to go to any length to get a job - including "breaking a leg" - especially those of other actors!

Director

John Apple Jack

John Apple Jack · 2013

John Apple Jack

MovieComedyRomance

A playboy learns to love, while a virgin learns to live -- a queer romantic comedy set inside the restaurant industry... 'John Apple Jack' brings East and West together to create one sumptuously heart-warming dish. When John discovers his sister's fiance is Jack, his childhood crush, passions ignite and his life spirals out of control... losing his job, his playboy reputation and his underwear, all while rushing to the altar to finally confess his love!

Director

The Christmas Contract

The Christmas Contract · 2018

The Christmas Contract

MovieTV MovieRomance

It’s Jolie’s first time going back home to Louisiana since her devastating break-up with Foster Burke. Seeing him is inevitable as their parents run the town’s annual Christmas Market together, but when she discovers Foster is bringing home a new girlfriend, Jolie cannot bear the thought of going home alone and seeing them together. Her best friend Naomi suggests that Jolie bring her flaky brother, Jack, home for Christmas as he has no plans this year. Jolie, a professional web designer, is hesitant; so, Naomi, a lawyer, creates a Christmas contract to give them both something they want—a buffer for those awkward moments around Jolie’s ex and a website to help sell Jack’s upcoming novel. Unbeknownst to them, the Christmas contract proves to be so much more than what they signed up for.

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Hearts of Christmas

Hearts of Christmas · 2016

Hearts of Christmas

MovieDramaTV Movie

When Alice, a beloved neonatal intensive care unit supervisor, is forced to take early retirement, her young colleague Jenny decides to turn the upcoming staff Christmas party into a surprise celebration for her. The plan is complicated by Matt, the hospital’s new CFO, who’s been tasked to cut costs. Initially at loggerheads, Jenny and Matt get to know and understand each other —a sweet Christmas gift neither saw coming.

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Same Time Next Week

Same Time Next Week · 2017

Same Time Next Week

MovieRomanceTV Movie

Sara deals with her grief by trying to complete her late husband’s bucket list. Injuring herself on one of the tasks leads her to meet Dr. Ryan. A widower himself, Ryan begins to help Sara complete the bucket list. The two get close and Sara doesn’t want to betray her husband’s memory, so she stops seeing Ryan. However, Ryan doesn’t give up and helps Sara realize that everyone deserves a second chance at love

Director

A Stranger's Child

A Stranger's Child · 2024

A Stranger's Child

MovieDramaMystery

Donna wakes up in the hospital with amnesia and a baby. At the same time news breaks of a kidnapped baby causing Donna to question if the baby is hers.

Director

To Have and to Hold

To Have and to Hold · 2019

To Have and to Hold

MovieDramaRomance

"To Have and to Hold" centers on Alice who still can't believe her high school crush, the dashing, wealthy and successful Joe Chambers, would choose to marry her and willingly allows him to mold her into his ideal socialite wife. Despite Alice's best efforts to be the woman of Joe's dreams, he can't help but be unfaithful to her. When Joe's indiscretions impact his career, Alice's life is further turned upside down. Alice unexpectedly finds herself falling for her best friend's boyfriend and begins to wonder if her fairy tale ending could exist after all.

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Christmas Joy

Christmas Joy · 2018

MovieFamilyTV Movie

Joy Holbrook, is a corporate market researcher, gunning for a promotion within her firm. Just as her company's CEO is taking notice, Joy finds out her Aunt Ruby has broken her ankle and will be undergoing surgery. Despite the less than opportune timing, Joy makes her way back home to Crystal Falls, NC to be with her Aunt. Stars seem to be aligned as Joy sees her former crush, Ben Andrews, while at the hospital. At first, Joy is focused solely on helping her Aunt heal; even taking over her position as chair of the local Cookie Crawl competition. Eventually, she begins to let Ben in and remembers there's no place like home for the holidays. The pair work together on the Cookie Crawl to make the event a success.

Director

When Christmas Was Young

When Christmas Was Young · 2022

When Christmas Was Young

MovieTV MovieComedy

The story follows a headstrong music manager in desperate need of a hit song for his last remaining client, who finds himself falling for a gifted singer-songwriter with abandoned dreams of making it big, as he attempts to secure the rights to a Christmas song she wrote years ago.

Director

All Yours

All Yours · 2016

MovieComedyDrama

Cass, a high-powered attorney and single mother of two, is on the hunt for a new nanny after her precocious kids ran off the last one.

Director

Night Deposit

Night Deposit · 2000

Clare, a mysterious young woman, earns a lucrative income as a serial seducer of men.

Director

Reluctant Witness

Reluctant Witness · 2015

Reluctant Witness

MovieDramaTV Movie

After giving up her mafia husband to the police, and starting a new life in witness protection, Erin thinks she's rid of Jimmy forever. However, a mysterious stranger has her worrying Jimmy is back.

Director

The Wrong Bed: Naked Pursuit

The Wrong Bed: Naked Pursuit · 2017

The Wrong Bed: Naked Pursuit

MovieTV MovieThriller

A woman mysteriously wakes up in a hotel handcuffed to a firefighter to find messages they left themselves the night before revealing that their lives are in danger.

Director

Sugarbabies

Sugarbabies · 2015

MovieThrillerTV Movie

Persuaded by her roommate, a college student makes an arrangement with an older man who pays for her companionship.

Director

Mother of All Lies

Mother of All Lies · 2015

Mother of All Lies

MovieDramaTV Movie

Adopted teenager Sara goes in search of her birth mother Abby, only to find the woman in prison for bank robbery and manslaughter. In an upcoming parole hearing, Sara helps Abby win release, and decides to spend the summer with her before leaving for college. But Sara soon finds herself in danger as her mother returns to her former partner in crime....

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Pretty Little Addict

Pretty Little Addict · 2016

Pretty Little Addict

MovieThrillerTV Movie

Teenager Jennifer Phillips loses her father in a long battle with cancer. She's devastated and one night, after heavy drinking, she crashes her car into Colin, a college bound track star, who now may never walk again. Jennifer is taken into rehab, and when she thinks that the worst is over, Colin's brother is looking for her and ready to take revenge.

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Woman of the House

Woman of the House · 2017

Woman of the House

MovieDramaRomance

A former sorority girl, longing for her old, fun college days, decides to take a job as house mother to her former college chapter, only to find that it is in shambles. The handsome Dean of Student Affairs tells her she must turn the chapter around before the national organization yanks their charter and they will no longer be allowed on campus. As she works with the girls, she realizes she needs to be the grown up and help these young women discover their true potential. With the help of the Dean she comes up with a way to save the chapter and falls in love in the process.

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Veiled Truth

Veiled Truth · 2006

MovieDramaThriller

A woman's past comes back to haunt her when the pimp she helped put behind bars is released and after revenge.

Director

Buried Secrets

Buried Secrets · 2015

MovieThrillerTV Movie

A cop-turned-writer creates suspicion when she publishes her first novel, a story that appears to contain details of a real murder.

Director

Vikings: Valhalla

Vikings: Valhalla · 2022

Vikings: Valhalla

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

In this sequel to "Vikings," a hundred years have passed and a new generation of legendary heroes arises to forge its own destiny — and make history.

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Virgin River

Virgin River · 2019

After seeing an ad for a midwife, a recently divorced big-city nurse moves to the redwood forests of California, where she meets an intriguing man.

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Robson Arms

Robson Arms · 2005

SeriesDramaComedy

Robson Arms follows the lives of the tenants in a once-grand low-rise in Vancouver's eclectic West End. The building is home to an unlikely collection of characters who live under one roof, yet occupy different worlds. One thing is certain, you'll never see your neighbours the same way again.

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#STI

Distraught patients recently diagnosed with STIs look back on how they contracted the disease and what they could have done to prevent the transmission.

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The Chicken Sisters

The Chicken Sisters · 2024

The Chicken Sisters

Set in the fictional town of Merinac, a generations-old rift between dueling fried chicken restaurants — Mimi’s and Frannie’s — has left the founders’ families fractured and the locals taking sides. When popular cooking competition show Kitchen Clash comes to town, this could be the recipe for ending this feud once and for all. But things are fixing to heat up both inside and outside of the kitchen as the reality show spotlight causes sparks to fly as secrets are spilled and feathers get ruffled.

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Ties That Bind

Ties That Bind · 2015

SeriesDramaCrime

Allison McLean is a tough and experienced police detective, mother and wife in suburban Seattle. When she and her police partner must arrest her brother for aggravated assault, her world drastically changes as he's convicted and sent to prison, leaving his two teenagers teetering on the brink of foster care. Ultimately, she takes them into her home, ending up with four teenagers to raise.

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Da Vinci's City Hall

Da Vinci's City Hall · 2005

Da Vinci's City Hall

Da Vinci's City Hall is a Canadian dramatic television series, which premiered on CBC Television on 25 October 2005. The series was a spin-off of the long-running Canadian series Da Vinci's Inquest. The creator, writer and executive producer of the series was Chris Haddock.

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