T.O. Webfest (September 16-17, 2025) – Canada’s premiere short-form series and podcast festival – is designed to support and celebrate creators from Canada and around the world. The festival includes a two-day conference offering panels, networking and screenings, and an Awards Gala!
This year’s festival features seven ACTRA Toronto productions with ACTRA Toronto members and productions receiving a total of 17 nominations at the Awards Gala. Congratulations to this year’s nominees! Winners are denoted below in bolded text.
SETTLE DOWN
Mason is an expert on queer relationships and a matchmaker with a booming success rate. When it comes to love, he knows all…except why his own relationship is on the rocks.
Featuring: Nadine Bhabha, Izad Etemadi, Vasilios Filippakis, Thomas Gough, Alexander Nunez, Tymika Tafari, Leighton Williams
Award nominations: Best Toronto Series, Best LGBTQ+ Series
MY DEAD MOM (SEASON ONE)
Emmy’s mother died and she hates what she’s wearing. Emmy knows she could live her best life, if her dead mother would JUST. STOP. TALKING. She’s dead, but she’s still disappointed.
Featuring: Lauren Collins, Megan Follows, Rainbow Sun Francks, Daniel Maslany, Jenny Raven, David Reale
Award nominations: Best English Canadian Series, Best Toronto Series, Best Ensemble Cast
WE THREE QUEENS (SEASON TWO)
Three unconventional housemates – a daycare worker, an escort and a senior widow – navigate relationships and existential crises while supporting each other through mishaps and getting high together.
Featuring: Bert Cardozo, Danya Chichagov, Caroline Gillis, Linda Goranson
Award nominations: Best Toronto Series, Best LGBTQ+ Series
YOU’RE MY HERO (SEASON TWO)
Ian, a man in his 20s with cerebral palsy, tries to find love and purpose in a world not designed for wheels while navigating the pressures of adulthood.
Featuring: George Alevizos, Ali Hassan, Tina Jung, Vas Saranga, Christian C. V. Smith, Tara Spencer-Nairn, Sean Towgood
Award nominations: Best Lead Actor (Sean Towgood), Best English Canadian Series, Best Toronto Series
COUNTY BLOOMS (SEASON TWO)
County Blooms is a new digital lifestyle series for flower lovers everywhere, celebrating flower growers, creators, designers and more.
Featuring: Jennifer Pogue
Award nominations: Best Documentary Series, Triple Threat Auteur (Jennifer Pogue)
GISELE’S MASHUP ADVENTURES (SEASON TWO)
Gisele’s Mashup Adventures is an animated upper preschool series where each three-minute episode takes inspiration from the creative ideas of children from diverse cultures and backgrounds. When Gisele’s Mashup Mixer is fed a curated collection of the child’s ideas (keywords), the mixer whirs and stirs, as it concocts and transports the child and Gisele on a silly, hilarious, adventure!
Featuring: Tyrus Hwang, Lochlan Miller, River Morales, Desmond Sivan, Mikayla Swaminathan, Lerato Tafa
Award nominations: Best English Canadian Series, Best Toronto Series, Best Children’s/Youth Series
LADY ADA’S SECRET SOCIETY (SEASON TWO)
Four girls rebel against their hyper-traditional boarding school by pranking it, using technology they invented, hacked or “borrowed,” while staying one step ahead of their horrible Headmistress.
Featuring: Ella Farlinger, Anton Gillis-Adelman, Shailyn Griffin, Terri Hawkes, Patrick McKenna, Athena Park, Blake Talabis, Glenna Walters
Award nominations: Best Toronto Series, Best Children’s/Youth Series
