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Petrol trends in the Netherlands
Petrol’s Episode 7 is making international waves and trending on YouTube in the Netherlands right now!
Check out Episode 7 – Brat’ya (Brothers).
Petrol receives two CSA Nominations
The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television announces the nominees for the 2017 Canadian Screen Awards in March.
Petrol the Series received two nominations:
- Best Original Program or Series produced for Digital Media – Fiction
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Program or Series Produced for Digital Media (Kane Mahon)
For a full list of nominees in the Digital Media category, check out their website at www.academy.ca.
Another Petrol article featured in wheels.ca
The Toronto Star’s Wheels Section – Wheels.ca – published another article about the webseries, Petrol.
This time it focuses around director Ant Horasanli’s top car picks that have been featured in the webseries.
Check out the full article at:
http://www.wheels.ca/news/the-cars-of-petrol-the-series/
N5 Pictures Inc. now a member of the IWCC_CIWC
With the success of it’s web series, Petrol, N5 Pictures Inc. is proud to announce that they are now an official member of the Independent Web Creators of Canada (IWCC_CIWC).
“We’re excited to join this community of web content creators.”
Learn more about the IWCC_CIWC at: http://www.iwcc-ciwc.org/
Petrol being showcased on Stareable.com
Petrol is now one of the many web series being featured on Stareable.com – a NewYork based platform that showcases different web series from channels such as AMC, Lifetime, Vice, alongside independents.
Check it out here: Stareable.com
NEW episodes of Petrol starting Jan 13, 2017
Screen Anarchy recently gave Petrol The Series a shout out, letting readers know that new episodes return Jan 13, 2017.
Check it out here: Screen Anarchy
Petrol Nominated for Best Mystery and Best Actor at 2017 VWF
N5 Pictures’s Petrol is an Official Selection at the 2017 Vancouver Web Fest and has been nominated for Best Mystery and Best Actor for Kane Mahon.
Visit the VWF web site for details.
http://www.vancouverwebfest.com/
Petrol selected for competition at the 2017 Oxford Film Festival
Petrol selected for competition at the 2017 Oxford Film Festival. Playing alongside films starring, Holly Hunter, Janeane Garofalo and other notables, Petrol will be in good company as it takes part in the Festival under the New Media category from Feb 15-19, 2017. View the full lineup for #OXFF here:
N5 Pictures Petrol to get Feature Treatment
Read the full article here:
http://playbackonline.ca/2016/11/17/n5-pictures-petrol-to-get-feature-treatment/
SCREEN Exclusive on Petrol and N5 Pictures!
Exciting news from the AFM with the sale of distribution rights for the feature film version of Petrol The Series.
Check out the exclusive article in Screen Daily by clicking here:
Playback Magazine interviews Petrol
Playback Magazine’s Jordan Pinto interviews Ant Horasanli and Reza Sholeh on N5 Pictures’ headline grabbing action web series, Petrol.
To read the Playback article which was released during the 2016 American Film Market click here:
Canadian Blog House publishes new article on Petrol The Series
Check out our new article on CanadianBlogHouse.
ALI (Kane Mahon)
Ali is a fiercely intelligent and educated man. However, as a political refugee from Afghanistan, the only jobs he can find are washing dishes and back breaking, minimum wage factory work.
His only happiness is seeing his wife and kids for a few minutes before he goes to work his second job.
More than anything Ali wants to provide for his family, he promised them a better life, and one way or another he intends to keep that promise even if it means assisting The Employer with espionage, drug smuggling, bank heists, and other criminal activities.
SAMIRA (Kathryn Aboya)
After losing everything in the war in their home country, SAMIRA and her husband Ali moved to Canada to ensure a better and safer future for the their son Malik.
She is a hard working, strong woman who has witnessed her fair share of pain and death in Afghanistan. As a loving and devoted mother as well as a caring and concerned wife, she will stop at nothing to keep her family together.
Ant Horasanli
Producer / Director / Writer
Ant Horasanli’s first film was the award-winning documentary Redline which won “Best Documentary Feature” in 2003 at the Long Island, New York Film Festival.
In 2008 he wrote, produced, and directed, Lost Journey. The film garnered support from Telefilm Canada and was released theatrically in multiplex’s throughout Toronto and Los Angeles. The screenplay is on display at the Academy for Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Lost Journey was acquired by distributor Mongrel Media and sold to Super Channel and Netflix.
In 2011, Ant was awarded a full production grant by the Ontario Arts Council to produce a feature length documentary in Turkey. His most recent short film, Inhibit, premiered at the Art Gallery of Ontario and went on to play at the Museum of London.
On July 28th 2014, Ant began production on his second feature film Gear, a crime drama filmed in Montreal, Quebec City, and the Greater Toronto Area. Gear is currently slated for release in 2017.
