Edith Kabuya

Writer | Screenwriter | Script Editor

With a degree in psychology from McGill University, she also completed training in television screenwriting at INIS in 2018. Recipient of the Netflix Diversity Scholarship, she completed a new training in the long screenwriting program at INIS (Cohort 2018-2019).

Her trilogy LES MAUDITS received financial support from the FMC-SODEC fund for a TV adaptation and has been published by Éditions de Mortagne since 2012. It was sold in France by Éditions Hachette Black Moon, as was his VICTOIRE DIVINE series of children’s novels. Now recognized for her screenwriting skills and currently in demand for several projects in development, Edith is also the author of the UTUKKU series, which won the Best Horror Web Series award in Los Angeles. Since 2020, she has been a spokesperson for Communications-Jeunesse.

For all questions relating to the audiovisual rights of Edith Kabuya’s novels, please contact Claude Girard : [email protected]

Television & Web

THE SUMMER OF IMANI NELSON (L’ÉTÉ D’IMANI NELSON)

In development

Webserie by Kimberley Ann Surin
Script editor
Production Afro Dynamic Films

THE GAZETTE (LA GAZETTE)

In development

Coscreenwriter with Sophie Bienvenue
Production Wookey Films | Radio-Canada

MR WHITE (MONSIEUR WHITE)

In development

Animated Short Film by Phania Jean-Baptiste
Script editor
Production Objectif 9

A HISTORY OF BLACK MONTH (POUR UNE HISTOIRE DU MOIS DES NOIRS)

In development

Script editor
Production Urbania | Radio-Canada

TO BOYS MY AGE (AUX GARÇONS DE MON ÂGE)

In development

Short Film by Alexia Roc
Script editor
Production Objectif 9

Basket

2023

TV series | 12 x 12 minutes
Writer
Productions Zone 3 | Unis TV

UTUKKU

2018

Webseries | 3 x 6 minutes
Writer
Production INIS

Awards

Festival DC. Webfest -Awards Bronze Award et Student Award, 2019
Festival Hollywebfest - Awards Best Horror Webserie, 2019
Festival Rio Webfest - 5 Nominations , Brazil 2019
Festival Votskinsk International Film Festival - Nomination, Russia 2019
Festival Bilbao Seriesland - Nomination Ahmets, Spain 2019
Festival TO. Webfest – Nomination, Toronto 2019

How to survive the week-end (Comment survivre au week-end)

In development

TV series | 10 x 30 minutes
Coscreenwriter Zoé Pelchat
Productions Trio Orange, 2020

The Damned (Les Maudits)

In pre-development

TV series | 7 x 60 minutes | Television adaptation of her trilogy Les Maudits
Writer
Productions Parallaxes 2020

Mooniyang

In development

TV series
Cosreenwriter with Kadidja and Seydou-Junior Haïdara
Avenue Production

Flip

In development

TV Series
Coscreenwriter with Zoé Pelchat
Production Zone 3

The Sapiens (season 2)

2019

TV series for teens | 2x 25 minutes
Coscreenwriter with Anne -Hélène Prévost
Production Pixcom | Radio-Canada

Theater

Au sommet de la montagne

2022

Translation by Edith Kabuya | Script Katori Hall | Staging Catherine Vidal
Theater Duceppe

Books

Victoire-Divine

2018-2019

Novel series for teenagers
Mortagne Editions | Hachette-Novel Edition in France

The Damned (Les Maudits)

2012-2015

Fantasy trilogy (Resurrection, Illusion, Redemption)
Mortagne Editions | Hachette Black Moon Edition in France

Tessa in love (Tessa et l'amour)

2013

English to French translation
Teens Novel
Mortagne Editions

Other experience

Congrès Boréal

2021

Speaker
Round Table Discussion- Fiction and World Building: Playing with the Imagination!
By La Société de Fantastique et de Science-Fiction (SFSF) Boréal

Others distinctions

2020-2021 - Communications-Youth Spokeswomen
2018-2019 - Netflix Awards for Diversity | Fiction Series Writing Training Winner | INIS
2018 - International Screenwriters Festival (Jury Member)
2018 - The Place of Black People on Television (Consultant) | Panel Discussion
2013 - Contribution of Congolese Women in Canada (Guest speaker) | Chamber of Commerce of the Republic of Congo in Canada
2013 - Winner at the Inspiration Gala | Category Relève
2013 - Entre Nous ( Guest Writer) | Cultural program
2012- Plus on est de fous, plus on lit (Guest speaker)

Education