Cameras roll on Nish Media’s Indigenous-led Pitago Stop

The series, co-directed by Jason Brennan and Sonia Bonspille Boileau, follows the daily lives of employees at a roadside rest stop.

Nish Media has started production on the Indigenous-led mockumentary series Pitago Stop for APTN and Radio-Canada.

The 12 x 11-minute series is produced and directed by Gatineau, Que.-based Nish’s Jason Brennan and Sonia Bonspille Boileau.

Pitago Stop is written by Eve Ringuette, Normand Junior Thirnish-Pilot, Brennan and Boileau. Xavier Watso, who also stars, contributed to the scripts. Writer Félix Turcotte served as a humour consultant.

The series began filming in Gatineau on Dec. 2, with production expected to wrap on Dec. 20. Pitago Stop is set to air in the 2025-26 broadcast season on APTN and Radio-Canada’s Ici Tou.TV.

Pitago Stop stars René Rousseau (Aller simple), Océane Kitura Bohémier-Tootoo (One Summer), Andawa Laveau (Le Grande Vide), Amélie Grenier (Bon Cop Bad Cop), Watso (Bye-Bye), Charles Bender (Eaux Turbulentes 2), Claude Breton-Potvin (Complexe G) and Taio Gélinas (Avatar: The Last Airbender).

The mockumentary follows the employees of a rest stop located at the intersection of a provincial road and the path that leads to a fictional Anishinaabe community.

Image courtesy of Nish Media; pictured (L-R): (Top) René Rousseau, Océane Kitura Bohémier-Tootoo, Charles Bender and Andawa Laveau (photo by Julie Artacho); (Bottom) Claude Breton-Potvin, Amélie Grenier, Xavier Watso and Taio Gélinas