From left to right: Byron Abalos (Arnel), Ava Louise Murchison (Jenny), Haven Markus (Marc)

  

Tween live-actioner The Unstoppable Jenny Garcia premieres this fall.

Kidscreen Magazine
By Ryan Tuchow
June 4, 2025

Canada’s public broadcaster has unveiled its kids programming slate for 2025/2026, and it includes a dance-centric live-action series for tweens.

Apartment 11 Productions (Interstellar Ella) and Avenida Productions (The Outlaw League) teamed up to co-produce The Unstoppable Jenny Garcia (pictured, eight x 12 minutes), about a 13-year-old hip-hop dancer whose life turns upside down when she’s diagnosed with cancer. This project was adapted from Avenida’s French-language series Jenny, and Canadian author Catherine Hernandez (Scarborough) is behind the scripts. It’s in post-production now and will be delivered later this month to debut in the fall.

The Unstoppable Jenny Garcia courtesy of Apartment 11. “It deals not only with the physical element, but the emotional side of healing as well, and shows how this illness affects everyone in a family, including the often-overlooked siblings of sick children,” says Mindy Laxer, Apartment 11’s SVP and co-executive producer.

A CBC Original, The Unstoppable Jenny Garcia was produced by Apartment 11 and Avenida Productions with the participation of the Canada Media Fund, Telus Fund, Shaw Rocket Fund, the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit and the Quebec Film and Television Tax Credit, and was developed with the participation of the Bell Fund.