Alison wins at Series Mania!
Alison Murray and producer Jennifer Weiss return from the recent Series Mania industry event in Lille, France as winners of one of three development prizes. The pair won with ‘Chachachá’, an eight-part dramedic half hour which follows a Gen X woman whose sky-high blood pressure forces her to confront how out of touch with herself she has become. “She turns to Latin dancing – not for fun, but for survival – igniting chaos with her family,” the synopsis runs.
“‘Chachachá’ won us over with its light‑hearted, authentic, and sincere tone. It tackles important universal themes of society with humor. We believe this is exactly the kind of story international audiences need right now,” said Ferdinand Dohna, head of content & co-production at Beta, which partners on SeriesMakers with the Series Mania Institute.
Read the full Variety story here.
SeriesMakers Line-Up in Variety
Series Mania and Variety Magazine just released loglines for ten projects in development, including Alison’s own dramedy with producer Jennifer Weiss. Read the full story here.
“Chachachá!” (writer-director Alison Fairweather Murray, producer Jennifer Weiss)
Canada, 8×30’, drama-comedy
“When a Gen X woman’s sky-high blood pressure forces her to confront how out of touch with herself she has become, she turns to Latin dancing – not for fun, but for survival – igniting chaos with her family,” the logline runs. Behind the Apple TV, AmazonPrime and HBOMax-streamed “Ariel Back to Buenos Aires” Fairweather Murray teams with Weiss, producer of movies by Sarah Polley (“Away From Her”), Brian de Palma (“Redacted”), Atom Egoyan (Adoration”) and most lately Molly McGlynn (“Fitting In”).
Mouth to Mouth Screening March 19
‘Close your eyes and picture the perfect world’…
Special screening on March 19 in London, UK. To be followed by a Q&A with Writer/Director Alison Fairweather Murray in conversation with Philip Ilson, Artistic Director of London Short Film Festival.
MOUTH TO MOUTH stars a young Elliot Page as Sherry, a teenage contradiction: she wants to be part of a group but doesn’t want to let go of her fierce individualism. Sherry meets the radical street collective SPARK (Street People Armed with Radical Knowledge) and joins their caravan of activists traveling across Europe, recruiting members from disenfranchised youth at raves and town squares. Sherry discovers that the collective’s promise of freedom masks rigid control – this activism preaches emancipation while demanding absolute obedience.
Alison Fairweather Murray creates an intense, gritty look at youth culture, and how idealistic movements can become their own form of tyranny. This is a rare chance to see Elliot Page in a unique role that demonstrates the qualities that put Elliot on the path to stardom. MOUTH TO MOUTH won Best Feature at Brooklyn International Film Festival.
Murray was born in Canada and grew up in the UK. She cut her teeth directing music videos for bands such as Sugarbabes and B*witched. Her films have screened on the BBC, Channel 4, the Sundance Channel, TIFF, and Hot Docs. Her most recent feature film is Ariel : Back to Buenos Aires.
Philip Ilson is Artistic Director of London Short Film Festival and is hugely respected as an international short film programmer.
‘A fierce and passionate little film’ Daily Telegraph
‘A remarkably accomplished piece of work… It builds up a grip which just doesn’t let go.’ Eye for Film
Produced by Anne Beresford and Judy Tossell
M2M Films & Egoli Tossell Film Productions
Executive Producer Atom Egoyan
MOUTH TO MOUTH will be re-released digitally by Samuel Goldwyn Films in Spring 2026
