Plucked Entertainment
From producer Rebecca Rogers, PLUCKED is an independent, genre-bending media production company—producing bold, socially conscious works.
FILM/TV WORKS
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Narrative Feature Film, 2025, dir. Hubert Davis
Rebecca Rogers has taken THE WELL from packaging, through financing & production, and into post at the right hand of Producer Coral Aiken at Aiken Heart Films (2021–2024).
THE WELL is the highly anticipated narrative debut from Academy Award-nominated director Hubert Davis. The feature premiered at Fantasia Film Festival in 2025, and will be released globally by XYZ Films and in Canada by Vortex Media.
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Documentary Feature Film, 2025, dir. Adrienne Amato
Mbira Talks premieres at the South African Film Festival Canada on November 17, 2025.
Mbira Talks provides a rare glimpse into rural life in Zimbabwe and has many universal themes around migration and reclamation and healing of post-colonial trauma. Moyo is part of a movement of Zimbabweans at home and abroad who are reconnecting with their indigenous identity that was lost in the fire of colonialism.
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Short Film, 2019, dir. Jackie Batsinduka
A daughter estranged from her mother returns home to confront their past, and its intrinsic link to the 1994 Rwandan genocide against the Tutsis.
Official Selection by Regent Park Film Festival 2019, Toronto Lift-Off Film Festival 2020, and Montreal Black Film Festival 2020. Screened by the Feminist Art Collective, the Humming Collective, and Listen, Explore & Learn.
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Limited Webseries, 2022, Co-Created, -Produced, -Written & -Hosted by Rebecca Rogers & Jackie Batsinduka
Hosted by IRL BFFLs Jackie Batsinduka and Rebecca Rogers, SLUMBER PARTY is a webseries that untangles teenage and young adulthood from Y2K to today. Through the hosts’ nostalgic yet critical take on growing up in the age of the internet, SLUMBER PARTY tries to make sense of the overly mediated lives of its hosts and viewers through video essays, interviews, and sketches.
Generously supported by the Indigenous Screen Office’s Solidarity Fund for BIPOC Creators.
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Short Dance Film, financing 2025, dir. Coral Aiken
A dark-comedy dance short about the Dancing Plague. Frau, a shy young woman in modern-day Toronto, can’t stop dancing. She has to solve the mystery of her dancing mania before it kills her.
ChoreoMania sees the return of Coral Aiken to the world of dance and directing after a decade of independent producing.
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Feature Film, development 2025, writer Jackie Batsinduka, producers Rebecca Rogers & Amanda Pileggi.
Rebecca Rogers teams up with her long-time creative collaborator Jackie Batsinduka to bring us a timely horror/thriller about a roommate gone wrong situation.
FUNDS/GRANTS CONSULT
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Development Manager, 2025.
Urgently stepped in for the head of development who went on sudden leave.
Completing multiple deliveries to funders (including Ontario Creates, Canada Media Fund, Independent Production Fund, and Bell Fund) for projects across development, financing, and production stages.
Managing development coordinators and interns to support an ambitious slate of TV series (long-form and short-form), across genres including children’s animation, reality TV, dramatic comedy, sitcom, and sci-fi thriller.
Archipelago goes to camera Fall 2025 on THREAD, a sci-fi/thriller series for OUTtv, and their short DEMONS (dir. Kelly Fyffe-Marshall, AP Rebecca Rogers) will premiere at TIFF50. DEMONS is the short calling card for the series of the same name, created by Preeti Torul.
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Independent Film Producing / Slate Development, 2021–2024.
Oversaw a slate of drama and genre narrative features and international co-productions.
Project packaging and financing, including successful Canadian public funding through applications to Telefilm Canada, Ontario Creates, and Canada Media Fund, among others.
Managed closing and delivery with financiers, distributors, sales agents, and broadcasters.
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Grant Writer / Communications Coordinator, 2019-2020.
Successful Canada Council for the Arts application and Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign, bolstered by a social media campaign.
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Proposal Writer / Researcher, Social Impact Media Agency, 2019-2021.
Worked globally with clients across the non-profit, public, and private sectors.
Researched RFPs and created proposals to bid on large scale video and interactive multimedia projects.
Successful proposals include gamified eLearning platforms for IOM UN Migraton, World Health Organization, and LiUNA Local 183, as well as instructional videos for Maryland Courts.
