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Full Cup Productions
Founded by award-winning author, journalist and producer Susan Elizabeth McClelland and her daughter, Charlotte Lindsay Marron, Full Cup Productions is an independent production company developing bold, original content across scripted entertainment, unscripted television and digital media.
Bringing together investigative storytelling, creative innovation and a sharp understanding of contemporary culture, Full Cup Productions creates stories that resonate across generations.
In 2025, Susan and Charlotte were named winners of the prestigious Realscreen Propelle initiative, in partnership with A+E Networks.
Building on that recognition, the company has gained industry momentum with a growing development slate, including reality programming exploring contemporary relationships and social issues.
As the company’s development slate expanded, Charlotte also returned to social media, launching CharlyParlie in May 2026. The platform brings a new dimension to Full Cup Productions, combining original digital storytelling, humor and cultural commentary.
Co-producer · YouTube and Instagram · 2026
CharlyParlie
Created by Charlotte Lindsay Marron and launched in May 2026, CharlyParlie is a bold, funny and unapologetically Gen Z social media platform exploring feminism, body image, beauty standards, relationships and the contradictions of growing up female in the digital age. Blending sharp cultural commentary, personal storytelling and humor, Charlotte challenges everyday sexism and the pressures facing young women today. Within five months, CharlyParlie attracted more than 150,000 followers across platforms. Susan co-produces the channel.
The Nanny Business explores the domestic labor market that brings in an estimated 5,000 women to Canada every year to serve as caregivers. These women, mostly escaping poverty in the Philippines, leave their own children behind. Their dream is to satisfy the requirements of a Canadian government program that promises a “fast-track” route to citizenship. For many that dream becomes a reality, however a disturbing number of these women become victims of fraud and abuse. Following the journey of Edelyn and Joelina, two single mothers who arrive with only their hopes for the future,
The Nanny Business puts a personal face on a story of exploitation that is occurring all around us. From the moment both women arrive in Canada, they are victims of unscrupulous agents and employers, vulnerable in a system that does not protect them. University-educated, determined, and brave, they both fight back. In the end, they find ways to overcome their circumstances and the bravery to go public. They hope their stories will help force change, both in attitude and action, in the new country they want to call home.
The Nanny Business was inspired by Susan’s award winning article for The Walrus which exposed the abusive system in which many Filipino caregivers to Canada become victimized by. Susan became consultant on the documentary, and one of the film’s on-camera characters.
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BBC Panorama
Photos by Stephen Foote
Somewhere in the vast, dense jungles of Central Africa is hidden Joseph Kony, one of the world's most wanted men. For the past 25 years, Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army have waged one of the continent's darkest conflicts; using an army of abducted and brutalized children to kill and maim tens of thousands of people. But how has one man, said to take his orders from the spirit world, managed to escape capture for so long? In the wake of the infamous 'Kony 2012' Internet campaign to bring him to justice this year, BAFTA-winning reporters, Sorious Samura investigates the myths surrounding Kony and travels to the front line of the fight to bring one of Africa's most bizarre and brutal leaders to justice.
Photos by Stephen Foote
The Last Great Escape
North Korea is among the world's most mysterious and secretive countries. The little we know comes from desperate souls who risk everything escaping overland in search of a new life. Many are captured in China and sent back home to an uncertain future. But a few somehow manage to make it all the way to Canada. The Last Great Escape is the story of two courageous individuals who fled a life of privation and fear and survived to tell the tale. One of those stories is Lucia Jang's, as written in the Stars Between the Sun and Moon, by Susan McClelland.