About Sly
Sly is a Montreal-based writer with Swiss dual citizenship. He wrote the feature film Captain (2026) and wrote and directed the podcast First Pick: A Hockey Story (2021) with CBC/Radio-Canada, about athletes lost in pro sports. He was a script consultant on Game of Death (SXSW world premiere, 2017) and co-founded SPASM, a genre film festival where he executive produced the feature Le Chalet (2005) and distributed 100+ shorts across Canada.
He has published two novels, Yupster (2010) and Sara(h)bande (2013), and worked at Teletoon Canada, overseeing content for FOX, Marvel, Disney, Lucasfilm, and DC.
He was a finalist in the Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition with his Canadian-Korean script My Secret Garden, and is now developing the Indigenous feature I Wish I Had Been Born a Flower along with multiple spec scripts, including The Path Is Without Edge with Chinese writer-director Jingwei Li.
Captain
Now playing
In the early 1980s, the captain of a fishing boat from a remote Innu reserve sets out on a road trip in Quebec in the hope of finding his missing daughter.
Theatrical release, Winter 2026
Streaming on Crave, Fall 2026
Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival 2025, Opening Film
Cinequest 2026, US Premiere
Florac France Film Festival 2026, Opening Film
Red Nation International Film Festival, Los Angeles 2026
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I Wish I Had Been Born a Flower
In development
The incredible epic of French-Canadian descent who must come to terms with their hidden identity from the First Peoples.
Telefilm Canada has committed production financing to the project.
My Secret Garden
Drama/Live-Action Animation Hybrid
A tormented director falls in love with a K-Pop megastar longing to escape her carefully curated life for one night of reckless freedom.
Finalist, Austin Film Festival 2023
Top Reads, The International Screenwriter's Association, Spring 2026
Surci
Drama/Crime
Diagnosed with cancer, an aging restaurateur tied to organized crime, whose territory is under threat, flees Little Italy for Vietnam, where he seeks protection and traditional medicine not just for his disease, but for the deeper wounds that still haunt him.
Quarterfinalist, Stage 32 Feature Drama Screenwriting Competition 2024
Semifinalist, Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition 2024
Recommend, The Austin Film Festival Script Coverage Program 2026
Monstration
Action/Science-Fiction
In a city ablaze with protest, two friends navigate their way through the chaos, which slowly turns into a scary, dystopian nightmare.
Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival 2024
Semifinalist, Keep or Destroy - New York New Stories Screenplay Contest 2024
The Red List (Action Short)
道路无涯 (The Path Is Without Edge)
Drama/Coming-of-age/Young Adult
After dropping out of USC and abandoning her American dream, a depressed Chinese student returns to Chengdu. Fearing her mother’s disapproval, she impulsively sets off on a grueling bike journey across Tibet with her American best friend. Racing along the unforgiving 318 Highway toward Everest, she hopes the vastness will help her outrun her mother’s expectations, and reconcile who she is with who she’s supposed to be.
Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival 2026
Vanguard Prestige
Horror/Thriller/War
When an Iranian ballistic missile cripples the cargo vessel Vanguard Prestige in the Strait of Hormuz, recovered bodycam footage reveals the fate of a covert special-forces unit sent aboard to retrieve a top-secret military asset, only to discover an experimental weapon gone awry that transforms everyone aboard into relentless killers.
The Other Side of the Track
Action/Comedy/Crime
A disgraced, crack-addicted Jersey lawyer is forced into homelessness. To save the lives of his best friend and ex-wife, he must survive one chaotic week of violence and absurdity, navigating an underworld of gangs, bikers, corrupt railroad cops, and bad deals. The weekend can’t come soon enough.
Strongmen
Dark Comedy/Young Adult
Unable to cope with his recent breakup, David follows his friend Mike to a transformative Spring Break party experience where hundreds of other college bros suddenly fall into a paranoiac frenzy, when the college girls they were promised do not show up.
Quarterfinalist, Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2025
Quarterfinalist, Stage 32 Comedy Feature Screenwriting Competition 2021
Quarterfinalist, Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards Season 6
Jane Doe #74
Drama/Mystery/Thriller
Inspired by true events, a snarky Montreal podcaster tries to solve a mysterious 50-year-old cold case murder, with the help of a jaded Los Angeles detective who just found new evidence regarding the gruesome stabbing of a teenage girl left for dead on Mulholland Drive in 1969.
Quarterfinalist, WeScreenplay Feature Lab 2021
Quarterfinalist, Vail Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2021
Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Feature Competition 2021
Quarterfinalist, Table Read Hollywood 2026
Semifinalist, So Cal Screenplay Competition - The Southern California Screenplay Competition 2021
Semifinalist, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition Fall 2022
Semifinalist, Screenwriters Network - SWN Feature-Length Screenplay Competition Spring 2022
Finalist, SF Indie Film Fest - San Francisco IndieFest Screenplay Competition 2022
Available on Radio-Canada OHdio
Mathieu Chouinard, a goaltender drafted in the first round in the National Hockey League, tells how his decisions influenced his rise to the NHL, only to play there, ultimately, for less than 10 minutes. A career far from the idyllic experience that young hockey players usually dream of.
2017
Under the spell of an evil board game, seven teenage friends must kill a certain amount of people to prevent their own heads from exploding.
2012
Lajeunesse is really involved in a dirty business! The horrific abuse inflicted on Trini Chan was not only inconceivable, it also awakened in him scars that never healed. Quickly overtaken by his ghosts of the past, Lajeunesse sinks into this investigation without suspecting that the worst will quickly catch up with him. And then there's Sarah...
2005
Eight Quebecers get together to recreate a traditional weekend at the lake. Beer is in the fridge, the sun is at its peak, bikinis are everywhere: Everything is ready for a perfect weekend. But these young adults who already have to paddle against the currant of day-to-day life will have to face the old conflicts that are responsible for their separation.