Southern Time

A premium drama franchise and the platform it lives on.

Southern Time is a Toronto-based media-tech company. We’re pairing an autobiographical drama series with a creator-owned, data-sovereign streaming and community platform, so the audience a story builds stays with the people who made it.

Southern Time exists to bring truth to power.

Dreamer

Dreamer is adapted from founder Timothy Bartsch’s rock opera. It follows a young classical musician from childhood trauma to a near-fatal fight with AIDS, the one Timothy survived in 2009.

• Season One: 17 episodes (16.9 hours), fully scripted.
• Season Two: in first draft. Its 34 episodes release in four parts.
• The full series: planned as five seasons and more than 100 episodes.
• Tone: somewhere between Whiplash, Moonlight and Baby Reindeer. Original music is at its heart.
• Its history: the story first ran as a seven-night stage production in 2005.

Most of Season One takes place in a Prairie town, with the rest in British Columbia and Europe. We plan to shoot it as a Canada–Germany co-production, on location and in the studio we’re building in Toronto. We’re attaching an executive producer and cast now.

The Promise

The Promise is the ‘rock opera band’ for the series, with its music being the majority of the music for the rock opera dramatic series, and performs Dreamer’s music live. It tours with each release and livestreams its concerts on our platform, turning audiences into members.

The Southern Time Platform

One ecosystem, built on a simple rule: people own their data and identity.

• ST.TV: streaming for original and licensed music and film, through subscriptions, pay-per-view and downloads. Creators can distribute and earn directly. No ads, no third-party tracking.
• The Promise hub: tickets, music, merchandise, and live and on-demand concerts, sold direct to fans.
• ST Community: a private, vetted network for LOHAS and Cultural Creatives. It includes a values-aligned marketplace, peer-to-peer giving and fundraising, member workgroups, and contextual ads that never track anyone.
• STF Community: a private network for marginalized and underserved communities, run with the Southern Time Foundation, with free or nominal membership.
• Shared Social Space: connects the two communities through creator showcases, an ethical marketplace, mentorship and impact matchmaking.
• Edge-first by design: personal data and identity stay on members’ own devices. Discovery and matching run on-device, and the communities help govern the platform.

The Round

We’re opening a $4M CAD Seed round, targeting a first close in the first half of 2027:

• $3M for Dreamer’s preproduction and packaging, including The Promise’s live-performance program.
• $1M for the platform’s beta build.

The Promise starts performing and livestreaming on the beta platform in the first months after close. Its overture album follows in Month 7, and the platform opens publicly in Month 11. Season One premieres first on our own platform, then licenses to other broadcasters and streamers.

Why It Matters

Rooted in “Artivism,” Southern Time is built for LOHAS and impact-focused partners who want long-term, mission-aligned returns. Two and a half percent of our monthly revenue will support the Southern Time Foundation’s HIV/AIDS work — firstly, in Canada — then globally.

Join Us

We’re looking for:

• An executive producer with experience in character-driven drama and international co-production.
• A technical lead who has built privacy-first, local-first or peer-to-peer software.

If that’s you, or someone you know, write to Timothy at t@southerntime.ca.

Pitch decks and music below.

This page is for information only and is not an offer of securities. Plans and forecasts are not guarantees.