Film & Television Editor
A queer Muslim woman adds another wild card to a gathering that’s already plenty unpredictable when she brings her new partner to her family’s holiday festivities, in director Fawzia Mirza’s buoyant and big-hearted comedy.
Directed by Fawzia Mirza
Written by Kausar Mohammed
Starring Kausar Mohammed and Vico Ortiz
Premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival on Septemeber 11, 2021, get tickets here.
Noor and Layla are breaking up. Is it the end of the road for these two Muslim women… or is it the beginning?
View the trailer.
Queering the Script is an informative, touching and often humorous exploration into the world of queer female fandom and its complex relationship to LGBTQ+ representation on TV and content creators.
Queering the Script premiered at the 2019 Inside Out Festival in Toronto.
You can view the film on Hollywood Suite and OUTtv.
A disgruntled aging actress struggles to find work within a youth-obsessed industry, while trying to retain her dignity and sense of self.
Acting Up on IMDb.
Director: Chris Ross
Producers: Vanessa Burns, Freya Ravensbergen
Writer: Vanessa Burns
Starring: Vanessa Burns, Lynne Cormack, Kate Lynch, Marcia Johnson
Short dramatic film (2016)
Director: Grace Lynn Kung
Writer: Helen Juvonen
Producers: Judy Barefoot, Nicole St. Martin, Catherine Tait
Starring: Martha Burns, Laura Miyata
A short film that tracks the three days in the life of a Toronto actor. It's a story about an audition. Not the audition itself, but the preparation and work leading up to the ultimate event. This film is currently in post-production.
Director: Annie Briggs
Producers: Laura Nordin, Aaron Chartrand
Writer: Annie Briggs
Starring: Annie Briggs, Aaron Chartrand
Watch here.
Annie Briggs as Abby Gwynn.
Aaron Chartrand
Babybods is a comedy series about an ad agency that uses exclusively babies and tots in outrageous campaigns. Their only natural enemies hail from the Minor Performer's Union. These union stewards want nothing more than to shut Babybods down before it even gets off the ground.
Created by Léa Rondot.
Watch here.
Various levels of deception and betrayal are explored when a disgraced financial advisor and his wife are confronted by an intruder.
Written and Directed by Thelon Oeming
Produced by David Kalinauskas of Kalina Pictures, Thelon Oeming
Genre: Drama
Production Type: Short fiction film
Year: 2012
Runtime: 5 mins
Various levels of deception and betrayal are explored when a disgraced financial advisor and his wife are confronted by an intruder.
Using dreamlike images of a road trip and an evocative score, Ramp follows the emotional journey of a man’s life-changing experience. Twenty years ago, Mazin Aribi, a healthy young man, mysteriously collapsed only to awaken from a coma and find his body completely paralyzed by polio. After gaining some mobility, Aribi sees the possibilities for a new beginning on the road.
Written and Directed by Sama Waham
Produced by Sama Waham
Genre: Documentary, experimental
Production Type: Short documentary film
Year: 2011
Runtime: 5 mins
RAMP is the story of survival...a man living in a body he no longer knew, altered irreparably by polio. In this short experimental documentary, we travel through the psychological experience and take the plunge from nostalgia, to anticipation, confusion, denial, anger, acceptance and finally victory, in a story of hope and inner strength...narrated by compositions from a road trip.
This synopsis is from director Nika Belianina:
In the beginning there was water. In the land of the beginnings spirits mingled with the souls. We played much because we were free. And when it was time for us to go, wondrous spirits danced around us to the music of gods protecting our souls across the interspaces and preparing us for existence. Each one of us made the passage alone. Alone, we had to survive the crossing.
The exile had begun…
Written and Directed by Nika Belianina
Produced by Nika Belianina and Chris Luckhardt of Willowood Films
Genre: Drama, Surreal, Magical Realism
Production Type: Short fiction film
Year: 2012
Runtime: 5 mins
