Danila Botha’s Book Excellence Award-winning novel, Too Much on the Inside, has been optioned for film or episodic series by Pelee Entertainment. The 2015 novel, published by Quattro Books, is set in early 2000s Toronto and follows a year in the life of four twenty-something immigrants whose lives intersect on Queen St West.

Danila Botha is the author of three fiction books and her writing has been nominated for the Trillium Book Award, the Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature, and the ReLit Award. Guernica Editions will be releasing Botha’s third short fiction collection, Things That Cause Inappropriate Happiness, in 2024 and her second novel, A Place for People Like Us, in 2025. Founded by award-winning producer and writer Heidi Lasi in 2013, Pelee Entertainment embraces the inspiring and transformative power of storytelling and the strength of diversity. The company produces drama, documentary, and branded entertainment for television, theatrical, and digital release.