Nurse Christy Saves Christmas is the story of a fledgling nurse who, on her first shift, discovers that an unconscious Santa is her patient then struggles, with the help of elves, to organise Christmas. Feature/episodic in development
Based on the book by one of South Africa's premier forensic pathologists, Doctor to the Dead is the story of a doctor and her team who are faced with power outages, gang violence, crime, plagues and a crumbling infrastructure. Feature/episodic in development.
The story of Lucius Henry, a young, naive New York City bookkeeper who is sent to frontier Canada to manage a bison ranch, only to discover that an equally young F.B.I. agent has been assigned to stop Lucius, by any means necessary. Feature/episodic in development

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MANKS Productions Inc. (first letters of the first names of his children) was founded by James M. Russell, who is still the owner. MANKS has produced eight short films and one feature. MANKS is located in Toronto, Canada. James and his partners have two multi-million dollar film studios in development – one in Namibia and the other in Sudbury, Canada