According To The variety Fae Pictures is ramping up its production activity with multiple projects spanning horror, television and documentary as president Shant Joshi participated in a producers’ development program.
Joshi was selected as one of 12 producers for the WAVES Film Bazaar x ProducerLAND Producers’ Lab, a professional development initiative supporting mid-career South Asian producers. He participated in the Project Track with “The Devil’s Tears,” a Tamil-language elevated horror film that marks Maya Bastian’s second narrative feature.
The company’s Asian-Canadian anthology series “Streams Flow From a River” has been greenlit for a second season, set to begin production in February 2026 for Super Channel in Canada. Backed by the Canada Media Fund and the Bell Fund, the new season shifts focus from the Chinese-Canadian Chow family featured in season one to follow the Pakistani-Canadian Javed family. The six-episode season will be directed entirely by Bastian, with Abdul Malik serving as head writer. Series creator Christopher Yip returns as executive producer, while Keavy Lynch, Renuka Singh, Thomas Pepper and Manny Mahal comprise the writing team. The anthology series exploring immigrant families in rural Canada is a Fae Pictures and Rellow Media production, with Joshi and Lindsay Blair Goeldner executive producing. Temilola Adebayo serves as producer, with Lisa Valencia-Svensson and Leonard Chan as co-executive producers and Melissa Affrunti as associate producer. EST Studios will handle international festivals and market for a standalone feature version of the season titled “Goose Point.”
Meanwhile, production on “Granny Lee” has been pushed back a year to April-May 2026 following a series of setbacks. The project lost financing from Amazon Prime Video Africa and South Africa’s Department of Trade, Industry and Competition, while also facing delays in the ratification of the Canada-South African co-production treaty. Although the treaty was signed in September 2024, it did not return to the Canadian parliamentary docket until June 2025 due to Parliament’s prorogation following Justin Trudeau’s resignation and the subsequent federal election. The project has since secured new funding from Eurimages, Quebec’s SODEC and South Africa’s National Film and Video Foundation.
Fae Pictures has also joined as executive producer on “Le Silence de Mostafa,” a Moroccan-Canadian documentary following the return to filmmaking of Mostafa Derkaoui, often regarded as the godfather of Moroccan cinema. The film explores the decolonial filmmaker’s role as patriarch in a filmmaking family, with his granddaughter Kenza Derkaoui directing and producing alongside Stefan Supplice under Niya Production. Mostafa’s son Kamal Derkaoui serves as cinematographer, while Mostafa’s late wife Douja Nour and brother Krimou Derkaoui also appear in the film. Supported by Telefilm Canada and Canada Council for the Arts, the documentary is expected to be structured as a Canada-Morocco treaty co-production and will be versioned in both French and English. WAVES Film Bazaar is the market component of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Goa
