A comedic web series that shot in the valley last spring will now be seen by eyes all over the world with a new distribution deal.
    In June Alberta based Numera Films was in the valley shooting Abracadavers. The company has inked a distribution deal with Zombie Orpheus Entertainment to see the series distributed on Amazon Prime, iTunes and The Fantasy Network in the United States, U.K, Japan, and Germany starting on January 1.
“Abracadavers was our largest undertaking as filmmakers and as a company,” says one of the producers Griffin Cork, “and we could not be happier with its journey.”
The series is based around a young man named Chris, whose mom died in a freak hair salon chair accident. and has since had an attachment to the chair responsible for her death. Gabriel, his closest friend, believes this is more than an obsession and along with their group of friends, kidnaps him on a trip. On the road-trip, everyone discovers, as Chris had previously begun to expect, the salon chair gives those close to it superpowers.
    Chris learns he is struggling with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and learns, along with his friends, that dealing with super-human abilities is sometimes easier to grapple with than what’s going on in your mind.
    The series that was supported by the Calgary Film Centre and Telus’ STORYHIVE Program has been well received and has 35 awards and nominations to its credit, including the best web series at the Los Angeles Film Awards and the Alberta Media Production Industries Rosie Awards.  
The series was shot throughout Alberta including Drumheller and Sylvan Lake.
    The series is available in Canada on the Fantasy Network, iTunes in Canada and Telus’s Optik TV.

    Members of the Delia School 2019 grad class have received over $100,000 in post secondary scholarships.
    “We are very proud of our students,” said Delia School Principal Ryan Duckworth. “Three members of the grad class in particular have received extremely noteworthy scholarships.”
    Principal Ryan Duckworth presented Carter Reed (left), Alia Nielsen (middle) and Darcee Hall (right) with honours certificates during the Annual Delia School Awards Ceremony on December 20, 2019.
    Carter Reed received the Bayer Crop Science Scholarship and the Elmer & Ona Hanson Memorial Scholarship. Reed is studying Plant/Soil Science at Lethbridge College.
    Darcee Hall received the Hayley Wickenheiser Scholarship, the Alberta Women’s Hockey Scholarship, Windsor Lansers Hockey Scholarship and the Carl Linden Alberta Baseball Scholarship. Hall is studying Psychology at the University of Windsor.
    Alia Nielsen, who is studying Engineering at the University of Calgary, achieved the prestigious Schulich Leader Scholarship which is a prestigious scholarship awarded to 50 graduates from across Canada enrolling in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics. She was also awarded the Unified Sports Leader Inclusion Scholarship and was a semi-finalist for the Loran Scholarship Foundation which looks at a student’s character, service and promise of leadership.
    The three students also received various scholarships from the Delia Elks, the Delia Ag Society and PLSD.
    “We are extremely proud of all of our graduates, whether they receive scholarships, attend post-secondary education, enter apprentice programs, or work for a year,” explains Duckworth. “We have amazing students and they should all be proud of their hard work.”