2025 Canadian Screen Awards.

NOMINEE
Best Direction, Children's or Youth

Allison Johnston

Davey and Jonesie's Locker

"You Don't Belong Here"

Synopsis:

Davey and Jonesie, two oddball teen best friends, travel through a portal in their locker, causing chaos to the multiverse as they go, while running from the threat of separation.

Episode Synopsis:
Davey and Jonesie lament over the dreariness of high school. Luckily, they have each other to rely on to get through the next two years. Unfortunately for them, the school's principal, Debbie Neighbors, is concerned by their co-dependent relationship and inability to socialize with literally anyone but each other. She threatens to separate them with different class schedules, and even different schools if necessary, and forces them to join the dance committee. To their added dismay, the dance committee is run by Sierra, the school's high strung, dictatorial student body vice president and their arch-rival. Sierra naturally assigns Davey and Jonesie the most menial task she can think of, only to inadvertently give them the idea to stage a protest at the dance. Meanwhile their bizarre science teacher, Mr.Schneider, surreptitiously plans to re synch with his fellow Schneiders across the multiverse using a portal they built. But when the portal doesn't open where it’s supposed to, he begins to scour the halls to find it in time. At the dance, Davey and Jonesie interrupt things to do an interpretive protest, while somewhat inexplicably wearing animal mascot heads. No one gets it (or likes it), and it's made a lot worse when their "big finish" accidentally sets fire to a banner, activating the sprinkler system and soaking everyone in the gym. As they race to hide the evidence from their furious classmates and Principal Neighbors, they cross paths with Schneider - and wind up going through his portal first when it opens right in their locker.
Nominees:

Allison Johnston

Channel:

Amazon Prime Video Canada

Production Company:

Blue Ant Studios