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- The Communist's Daughter is a Canadian comedy digital series, which premiered on CBC Gem in 2021 and is loosely based on creator, show runner and director Leah Cameron's own life. The series was nominated for 6 Canadian Screen Awards and won the Web Series World Cup in 2021, making it the most awarded series in the world digital festival circuit that year, the first Canadian series to win the cup and Cameron the first female creator to win it. Set in 1989, just before the Berlin Wall is about to fall, the series stars Sofia Banzhaf as Dunyasha McDougald, the teenage daughter of Marxist activist parents Ian (Aaron Poole) and Carol (Jessica Holmes) McDougald; after the family moves to a new—and conservative Toronto—neighbourhood, she falls for wealthy introvert Marc L'Ouverture (Kolton Stewart) despite being an outsider in her new school's social hierarchy, only for her father to mount a municipal council campaign against incumbent councillor Rod Bigmann (Chris Locke), Marc's step-father. The cast also includes Ryan Taerk, Nadine Bhabha, Zoe Cleland, Vieslav Krystyan, George Stroumboulopoulos, Sandra Battaglini, Neema Nazeri, Manuel Rodriguez-Saenz, Nadine Whiteman Roden and Jacob Soley. Cameron wrote a half-hour pilot for the show a few years after her father died in 2012. The pilot, and the digital series she subsequently developed, is based on the intense Marxist phase her father went through in the 1980s and his numerous election runs. The digital series was first developed through Women In the Directors Chair’s Story and Leadership Program with Cameron and producer Natalie Novak Remplakowski winning CBC Comedy’s Pitch Program at Just for Laughs in Montreal shortly after. It was funded in part by a Kickstarter campaign in early 2019, and went into production that fall. It was released on CBC Gem in March 2021. (en)
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- The Communist's Daughter is a Canadian comedy digital series, which premiered on CBC Gem in 2021 and is loosely based on creator, show runner and director Leah Cameron's own life. The series was nominated for 6 Canadian Screen Awards and won the Web Series World Cup in 2021, making it the most awarded series in the world digital festival circuit that year, the first Canadian series to win the cup and Cameron the first female creator to win it. Set in 1989, just before the Berlin Wall is about to fall, the series stars Sofia Banzhaf as Dunyasha McDougald, the teenage daughter of Marxist activist parents Ian (Aaron Poole) and Carol (Jessica Holmes) McDougald; after the family moves to a new—and conservative Toronto—neighbourhood, she falls for wealthy introvert Marc L'Ouverture (Kolton Ste (en)
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