Dan Abramovici Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Dan Abramovici
Acting
Biography
Dan Abramovici immigrated to Canada as a teenager, a background that has fueled his interest in stories exploring identity and belonging. A graduate of the Canadian Film Centre’s prestigious Actor Conservatory, Abramovici made his mark with his debut feature Ben’s At Home, which he co-wrote and starred in. Following a theatrical release in Canada, it reached wider audiences on Netflix in 2017. His next feature script, You Have Feet In Your Shoes, earned recognition at Cinequest, where it won a Top 10 award and led to mentorship opportunities with industry legends including Lawrence Kasdan and Dennis Lehane. As an actor, Dan has appeared in series such as Star Trek: Discovery, Wayne, What We Do In The Shadows, JANE, and Tales From The Void. His film work includes Tehranto, The Marsh King’s Daughter, Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, and the upcoming The Fallers, opposite Georgina Campbell. In 2019, Dan turned to directing with liminal, which won Best Short at both the Canadian Film Fest and Snowdance International, earned an Honorable Mention at the Oscar-qualifying Dances With Films, and screened widely at festivals including HollyShorts, Dublin, Newport Beach, BendFilm, and Raindance. His follow-up short, Play It Again, premiered at the Austin Film Festival, where it won the Jury Award for Best Short, making it Academy Award–qualifying in 2023. In 2024, his proof-of-concept short Spaceman premiered as an Opening Night Selection at HollyShorts. The film stars Trevor Copp, with voice performances by Academy Award winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash, Juno, Spider-Man) and Mena Massoud (Aladdin). Most recently, his horror short Heirlooms premiered at Fantasia, winning the Audience Choice Award before going on to claim the Jury Award for Horror at HollyShorts. It then screened at Sitges, FilmQuest, and Telluride. LEOPARD, his latest short, just had its world premiere at the Austin International Film Festival. Dan currently has three feature films in development, including Searching for Marceau, an Academy Nicholl Fellowship and Shore Scripts finalist that he aims to bring to the screen in 2026.
Filmography Movies
Acting
The Case for Christmas
An up-and-coming attorney risks it all to help defend Santa when Christmas is in jeopardy of cancellation.
Priscilla
When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend.
The Marsh King's Daughter
Helena, a woman living a seemingly ordinary life, hides a dark secret—her father is the infamous 'Marsh King', the man who kept her and her mother captive in the wilderness for years. After a lifetime of trying to escape her past, Helena is forced to face her demons when her father unexpectedly escapes from prison.
Gatekeepers
After signing up for a literal elevator pitch, a screenwriter grapples with the conflicting advice from three very different producers.
Tales from the Void: Starlight
Whit Barnett has always wanted to be a star, and the new game show The Magnificent Million Dollar Question seems like it could offer him that opportunity. But the show's conceit may be far darker than he could have imagined.
Ben's at Home
Sex, love, break ups, turning 30, and staying in.
A Very Country Wedding
Zane and Jeannette’s wedding is delayed due to Zane’s crazy tour schedule and the two must overcome paparazzi and rumors to find their way back together.
Tehranto
In Toronto lively music, intricate textiles and vibrant colours paint an unlikely story of love and family when Badi and Sharon, two young students with very different upbringings from a divided Persian community, accidentally fall in love.
The Fallers
Annie, daughter and sole caregiver of troubled architect Carl, escapes her past by trespassing into the homes her father designed, but is forced to confront it and her father’s legacy when the watcher becomes the watched.
Heirlooms
Jaime’s quest for healing leads her to restore a family heirloom. But what begins as a therapeutic project, soon spirals into a battle against an ancient evil that has plagued her bloodline for generations.
Production
Liminal
The cycle of Steve's life choices are too large for him to recognize any pattern within. But as time is compressed and he flows through spirals of love and sexuality, he begins to sand down distractions and distortions to reveal an essential wound at his core. In liminal, the abstraction of dance may hold a place where our imaginations can project an ineffable experience. Words can fail in cinema where dance and movement may succeed.
Grace
A young girl is confronted by her father’s depression.
Play It Again
Kitty has been secretly in love with her best friend Erin for one thousand one hundred and fifty three days, and tonight is their final movie night together before Erin flies away. A grand romantic gesture has been planned - something worthy of Classic Hollywood Romance. But life hardly plays out like a movie, and Kitty must make the decision -- does she tell Erin that she loves her? Or does she simply watch her best friend get on that plane?
Ben's at Home
Sex, love, break ups, turning 30, and staying in.
Spaceman
SPACEMAN uses mime, stop motion, classic animation, and theatrical elements, to explore one artist's loss of creative passion, and his journey to get it back again.
Spaceman
SPACEMAN uses mime, stop motion, classic animation, and theatrical elements, to explore one artist's loss of creative passion, and his journey to get it back again.
Spaceman
SPACEMAN uses mime, stop motion, classic animation, and theatrical elements, to explore one artist's loss of creative passion, and his journey to get it back again.
Play It Again
Kitty has been secretly in love with her best friend Erin for one thousand one hundred and fifty three days, and tonight is their final movie night together before Erin flies away. A grand romantic gesture has been planned - something worthy of Classic Hollywood Romance. But life hardly plays out like a movie, and Kitty must make the decision -- does she tell Erin that she loves her? Or does she simply watch her best friend get on that plane?
Heirlooms
Jaime’s quest for healing leads her to restore a family heirloom. But what begins as a therapeutic project, soon spirals into a battle against an ancient evil that has plagued her bloodline for generations.
Heirlooms
Jaime’s quest for healing leads her to restore a family heirloom. But what begins as a therapeutic project, soon spirals into a battle against an ancient evil that has plagued her bloodline for generations.
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