Dead Strangers

Format: Web Series Pilot
Duration: 16 min
Year: 2026
Genre: Drama
Writer/Director: Angeline Loo
Producers: Anna Canton, Alex Farley, Shreya Gejji
DOP: Daryl Wong
Starring: Celine Dam, Marshayla Christie
Synopsis: A young woman, addicted to watching the livestream funerals of strangers, seeks out the friend of one of the deceased - only to be swept up in a quest to fulfil a dead girl’s dreams.
Series Overview:

6 x commercial half-hour episodes
Primary audience - women 18-30yrs
Secondary audience - teenage girls 15-19yrs

Funding: New Zealand On Air
Platform: RNZ & Pan-Asian Screen Collective
Status: Pilot - released; Series - in development

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