fictional Podcast
Coming soon.
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feature film
Nominated for five Canadian Comedy Awards.
For John borden, dying is the least of his worries.
Set in the late 1980s, this darkly comic fictional podcast is about an unscrupulous waterbed salesman who tries to cheat his fate when a beautiful psychic tells him he’s going to die in seven days.
She predicts John will suffer seven absurd prophecies over the next seven days culminating with his death—one event and one episode for each day in his last week on Earth.
Of course, John doesn’t believe any of this “psychic stuff.” That is, until the predictions start to come true, one by one, forcing John to take a hard look at how he’s lived his life.
Written, produced and performed by Bill Keenan
Seven episodes. Coming soon.
eating buccaneers
The Office meets Lord of the Flies. Nominated for five Canadian Comedy Awards, Eating Buccaneers is a feature film written, directed and produced by Bill Keenan. It's about four self-absorbed advertising execs and one officious client whose small plane crash-lands into the northern Ontario woods. They survive the crash, but can they survive each other? Watch the trailer below.
After playing film festivals around North America, Eating Buccaneers opened theatrically in Toronto and Vancouver. Then it premiered on The Movie Network (now Crave TV) and HBO Canada. Eating Buccaneers was nominated for five Canadian Comedy Awards including Best Writer for Bill Keenan.
In development
The Back Nine - Comedy TV Series
When a Filipina housekeeper unexpectedly inherits a golf course, she must contend with a wildly incompatible group of employees, a demanding community of golfers and her own demons, self-doubts and lack of purpose.
Squat - Dramedy TV Series
Named a Top 5 FINALIST at the BlueCat Screenwriting Competition, ranked in the top 10 of U.S. screenwriting competitions.
Squat imagines a world where too many people have saved too little money and amassed too much debt.
Dying on Tuesday - Dark Comedy TV Series
In the late 1980s, an unscrupulous waterbed salesman tries to cheat his fate when a beautiful psychic tells him he’s going to die in seven days.
The Medicine Line - Limited Dramatic TV Series
Named a Top 10 FINALIST at the Final Draft Screenwriting Competition, ranked in the top 10 of U.S. screenwriting competitions.
ADAM BEACH is attached to play Sitting Bull.
In the tense aftermath of the Battle of Little Big Horn, James Walsh, one of Canada’s first Mounted Police officers, risks everything when he forms an unlikely friendship with the most “notorious” Indigenous Chief of all time, Sitting Bull, in this incredible true story. Based on the soon-to-be-published biography, The Horse In The Moon by Walsh’s great-great niece, Lucretia Grindle.
Vimy Ridge - Limited Dramatic TV Series
After the French and British armies try and fail, the underdog Canadian Corps must rethink the art of war to try and capture, against all odds, an impregnable German stronghold that could turn the tide of World War I.
All content copyright of Bill Keenan.
About
Bill Keenan Writer/Producer/Director
Bill studied film and television at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) in Toronto. After graduating, Bill joined The Second City Touring Company, where he performed and improvised comedy sketches throughout Ontario.
Later, Bill entered advertising, first as an award-winning copywriter for many of Toronto’s top agencies, then as a creative director, still writing but now managing teams of creatives.
Bill co-wrote, directed and produced an award-winning 18-minute short comedy called The Homework Bureau that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (“a dead-on satire of television cop shows”). The Homework Bureau screened at film festivals around North America (“A wonderful film.” – Palm Springs International Film Festival) before being broadcast on The Comedy Network and Global Television (“hilarious”).
Bill made his feature debut with Eating Buccaneers. After playing film festivals around North America (it was nominated for Best Direction at the Long Island International Film Festival), Eating Buccaneers opened theatrically in Toronto and Vancouver. Later it played on The Movie Network (now Crave TV) and HBO Canada. It was also nominated for five Canadian Comedy Awards—including Best Writer for Bill.
Bill left advertising to focus on film and TV projects, through his production company, Mad Keen Pictures.
