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Nadine Pequeneza is an award-winning writer-director and the founder/owner of Toronto production company HitPlay Productions. Her documentary films have garnered 11 Canadian Screen Awards and Gemini nominations, including a CSA for Best Writing in a Documentary for her debut feature 15 TO LIFE: KENNETH’S STORY (2014). Her latest feature film LAST OF THE RIGHT WHALES won Best Canadian Feature at the Planet in Focus International Film Festival and was #1 at the Canadian box office on opening weekend.

Her company HP is currently in production on the feature hybrid documentary THE MONSTER, the environmental feature SEEING GREEN, and the human rights investigative feature, INVESTIGATING PUTIN. HP’s latest feature release AN UNFINISHED JOURNEY premiered at Hot Docs 2024 and is nominated for the Cinema for Peace Dove Award 2025.

Pequeneza recently completed her first dramatic short (proof of concept) and feature narrative script based on a true story, 1047 DAYS. The short was selected for the CFC/Netflix Calling Card Accelerator and the feature script was a finalist for the 2023 New Voices Humanitas Fellowship. Her second screenplay RARE EARTH was selected for Stowe Story Labs 2024, Athena Film Festival Writers Lab 2025, Alfred P. Sloane Fellowship 2025, and was a finalist for The Writers Lab Canada 2024. She has also been a quarter-finalist at The Writers Lab US, WritersXWriters, Final Draft Big Break, ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship and Page International Awards.

Pequeneza is an alumnus of The Redford Center grantee program for environmental storytelling and The Fledgling Fund’s Engagement Lab for audience outreach and film distribution. She is immediate past Chair of the Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC), a member of DOC, Canadian Media Producers Association, Directors Guild of Canada and the International Documentary Association.