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Joe Kicak

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Joe Kicak
JOE KICAK is a CSA-winning television director and filmmaker.  He is the Showrunner/EP, director, writer, and co-creator of the award-winning 3-season series DETENTION ADVENTURE (HBO Max, CBC, iTV). The series was recently nominated for fifteen Canadian Screen Awards and won for Best Youth Series, and Best Visual Effects. Detention Adventure has also been nominated for two Writers Guild of Canada awards, and won the 2020 Kidscreen award for Best Series. 

Joe is currently directing eight episodes of the new one-hour docudrama series MISSION: UNEXPLAINED (Discovery+), produced by Blue Ant Studios.
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Joe Kicak is a CSA-winning director, writer, and producer, known for his work as the Director/ Writer/ Co-Creator of the TV series Detention Adventure (2019) (CBC/HBO Max). The series was nominated for 15 Canadian Screen Awards, winning Best Youth Series. Joe has been nominated for two WGC awards, a Banff Rockie Award, and won the Kidscreen award for Best Series.

Joe directed the film Must Kill Karl (2017) (Austin Film Festival), which won Best Comedy at HollyShorts Film Festival and was featured on Short of the Week and Directors Notes, as well as the short films Frigid (2016) and Distilled Love (2011).
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      • 26 wins & 26 nominations total

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    Simone Miller, Danté Prince, Jack Fulton, Ali Prijono, Tomaso Sanelli, and Lilly Noelle Bartlam in First Impressionisms (2022)
    Detention Adventure
    7.5
    TV Series
    • Director
    Must Kill Karl (2017)
    Must Kill Karl
    6.6
    Short
    • Director
    • 2017
    Frigid (2016)
    Frigid
    6.9
    Short
    • Director
    • 2016
    Mission Unexplained (2023)
    Mission Unexplained
    7.1
    TV Series
    • Director(Director, Drama)

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    • Mission Unexplained (2023)
      Mission Unexplained
      7.1
      TV Series
      • Director (Director, Drama)
      • 2023
    • Simone Miller, Danté Prince, Jack Fulton, Ali Prijono, Tomaso Sanelli, and Lilly Noelle Bartlam in First Impressionisms (2022)
      Detention Adventure
      7.5
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2019–2022
    • Canadian Reflections (1978)
      Canadian Reflections
      6.7
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2018
    • Must Kill Karl (2017)
      Must Kill Karl
      6.6
      Short
      • Director
      • 2017
    • Frigid (2016)
      Frigid
      6.9
      Short
      • Director
      • 2016
    • Joe Kicak, Jamie Spilchuk, and Heli Kennedy in Distilled Love (2011)
      Distilled Love
      8.2
      Short
      • Director
      • 2011
    • Grown-Up for a Day
      Short
      • Director
      • 2009

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    • Don't Come Upstairs
      • producer
      • Post-production



    • Simone Miller, Danté Prince, Jack Fulton, Ali Prijono, Tomaso Sanelli, and Lilly Noelle Bartlam in First Impressionisms (2022)
      Detention Adventure
      7.5
      TV Series
      • executive producer (showrunner)
      • 2019–2022
    • Canadian Reflections (1978)
      Canadian Reflections
      6.7
      TV Series
      • producer
      • 2018
    • Must Kill Karl (2017)
      Must Kill Karl
      6.6
      Short
      • producer
      • 2017
    • Frigid (2016)
      Frigid
      6.9
      Short
      • executive producer
      • 2016
    • Down to the Crossroads or How to Make a Movie 'Suck' (2010)
      Down to the Crossroads or How to Make a Movie 'Suck'
      6.6
      TV Movie
      • associate producer
      • 2010
    • Grown-Up for a Day
      Short
      • executive producer
      • 2009
    • Dancing in the Flames (2009)
      Dancing in the Flames
      8.7
      Video
      • associate producer
      • 2009
    • Two Days Till Tomorrow
      • producer
      • 2001

    Writer



    • Simone Miller, Danté Prince, Jack Fulton, Ali Prijono, Tomaso Sanelli, and Lilly Noelle Bartlam in First Impressionisms (2022)
      Detention Adventure
      7.5
      TV Series
      • creator
      • writer
      • written by
      • 2019–2022
    • Canadian Reflections (1978)
      Canadian Reflections
      6.7
      TV Series
      • story
      • 2018
    • Must Kill Karl (2017)
      Must Kill Karl
      6.6
      Short
      • story by
      • 2017

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