Welcome to theRubixon (pronounced rubicon)
– a media production company focused on the future of consumer entertainment. I believe that great storytelling combined with a comprehensive understanding of media platforms and consumer use create the conditions to imagine and build new and compelling entertainment experiences across the commercial media landscape. This runs the gamut from episodic narrative to VR to web-based viewer-interactive storytelling. The internet offers the viewer of the future to enjoy traditional modalities of narrative entertainment as well as the potential to transcend linear time-based narrative. At theRubixon I am committed to maturing narrative and narrative structure as non-material technologies for the purpose of engaging the active and inter-active viewer.
If you would like further information on the projects below, please email Gitanjali Kapila at gitanjali@gitanjalikapila.com.
Meet the Singhilas #brampton
TV Series (Family Sitcom)
When Trump wins the 2016 US election Indira Singhila, the 80-year-old daughter of the deposed King of Kapurthala, reminded so much of her father by the new American president, has a replica of his throne fabricated and anoints herself Queen of the Manor – causing some in her family and community in Brampton grievous exasperation with her embrace of her father’s autocratic legacy; and, others, a nostalgic yearning for those bygone days of polo, ponies and shooting wild game on the Deccan plain.
Puppet
TV Limited Series (Thriller)
When world-renowned epidemiologist, Bharat Thakur, succumbs to coronavirus on a visit to India, his estranged children, Alisha and Arjun, set out to prove that his much younger second wife intentionally orchestrated his death.
Meet the Singhilas #chicago
TV Series (Family Sitcom)
Bunty Singhila, the son of Indian immigrants living on Devon Street in the heart of Chicago's "Little India" becomes a full-on hat-wearing member of the MAGA movement when Trump wins the election, creating conflict with his community, his parents and his sister – all of whom are avid and committed Democrats.
Double Happiness
Feature Drama
On an American college campus Anisha, recently arrived from India, starts school with her traditional beliefs in love, sex and friendship intact. Savitri, her Indian-American roommate and friend, doubts love and rather prefers the anonymity of the casual encounter. Together they meet Kevin, an exchange student from the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, an encounter which will change all three
Sandra Claus
Feature Comedy
Sandra Claus (no relation to Santa) travels to the North Pole for a temp job only to join forces with her new Elf friend, Moose, in order to topple the corrupt head of the Elf union and save Christmas.
Mayhem
Feature Comedy
In the suburban paradise of Bethlehem, Connecticut Jackie is forced to reconsider her plan to divorce her husband, Jack, of 25 years when their adult daughter, Belle, announces she’s pregnant but refuses to share the name of the father until her parents work their problems out.
Genuflect
TV Series (Dystopia, Sci-fi)
When Kode, a non-binary AI, engineered for servility erroneously acquires sentience due to a software malfunction, they vow to dismantle Genuflect, the tech corporation which created them.
God, Dog
Feature Comedy
In an industry of sequels, prequels, freakquels and unequals, Rory Banks, a hapless LA production executive, travels to Dubai to make a deal with a desert prince for a horror sequel to Titanic.
Booth
TV Series (Bio-pic, Historical)
Edwin Booth, the most famous stage actor of the 19th century and older brother of John Wilkes Booth, tells the true story of why John assassinated Lincoln as only a sibling would know.