Peg Ainsley has received development funding from Telefilm Canada for her original screenplay, “In the Shadow”. She has produced two short films, Every Good Omen, which she wrote, and Mime Outside the Box. Both were shown at festivals, and the first got her onto IMDb in 2002. Peg has completed the “ProSeries” training program with Hal Croasmun of Screenwriting U in Los Angeles as well as story structure and comedy writing with John Truby.

A reporter in a small town, torn by the loss of his own wife to suicide, finds that a number of recent suicide victims shared a common therapist – the same therapist that his troubled son is seeing.

Serious – population 2400 – seven suicides in the last month? What’s going on?
Peter, an award-winning journalist, widowed by suicide, is hell-bent to blame their common therapist, Stephanie for their deaths.
But it’s stranger than that – it’s the sweet old lady receptionist, Miss Jhivers “helping” others…and only she and the audience knows!
Peter and his friend at the police station gather evidence to support a theory that the therapist is guilty. When he learns that his troubled teenage son is seeing Stephanie too, he pushes for her arrest.

“Burn him.”

The northern Alberta relatives of millionaire Ambrose Cranston receive a notice to attend the reading of his will.  Assuming they are now rich, they romp though West Edmonton Mall on a spending spree.  All except his nephew Ian Lucier – he practices his wannabe con art.

Now in serious debt, the cousins learn that Uncle Ambrose’s fortune goes only to the first one to spread his ashes over Elizabeth Taylor’s garden. Because Ian was his favourite, he gets first dibs on the ashes, and the cousins go crazy trying to stop him.

Los Angeles is a whole new world for these Canucks, and they meet challenge after challenge in their quest.  There is one unexpected turn, though. Ian falls in love!

His con persona is an undercover agent with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and this lie costs him his new love. Can he reconcile?

The ashes? They end up floating over a huge rain puddle in a Hollywood parking lot. But only after they have quite a trip of their own.

Brad, a young journalist with a wife and three-year-old daughter visit his parents in his small mountain hometown for Christmas. The conflict between father and son is obvious.

His father dies and Brad must return home to help his mother.  The plan is to continue the operation of his father’s lunch truck business, but when he arrives he’s banned from the property.

The family struggles for money and after a number of failing efforts, Brad takes a communications job with the mining company that keeps this town alive. It pains him to live In the Shadow once again, but the money is good, and he’s enjoying the attention around town.

An environmental wrong comes to light. Can he ignore what he sees? Can he live with what he knows, and what his father has done before him?  Although it hurts the entire community, he decides to do what’s right and blows the whistle.