The Neddeaus of Duqesne Island is a Canadian comedy web series, which premiered on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's streaming platform, CBC Gem, in 2017.
[1] A mockumentary presented as "lost footage" of a 1970s-era documentary, the series focuses on the Neddeaus, a family who have lived in isolation on a remote Northern Ontario island and are being profiled in a documentary by filmmaker Ford Francis Mayflower.
Its premiere was accompanied by Not for Broadcast, a short promotional trailer which explored the series' fictionalized backstory as a documentary film which was made in the 1970s, but suppressed by the CBC for political reasons and never seen by anyone outside of Canada's media and political elites until 2017; the trailer included commentary from public figures such as Jean Chrétien and David Suzuki.
[1] The series was directed by Sam Zvibleman, best known for his work as creator and director of Pen15.
Zvibleman makes a brief appearance in the series as director Ford Francis Mayflower.