Filmi 21! Virtual Edition
Filmi Toronto’s South Asian Film Festival Celebrating 21 Years!
December 27th, 2020
21st Filmi: Toronto’s South Asian film festival
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0 Leeches
Leeches
Toronto Premiere
Director: Payal Sethi
Duration: 20 Minutes
Synopsis: In the Old City of Hyderabad, Raisa hatches a dangerous plan to save her younger sister from becoming a one-day bride when she finds an archaic remedy that could restore a girl’s virginity.
Director: Payal Sethi
AWARDS:
Brussels Short Film Festival 2016 – Best Short Film
Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles 2016 – Honorable Mention – Best Performance in a Short Film
Indian Film Festival, Stuttgart 2016
International Women’s Film Festival Seoul 2016 – Audience Award
Zanzibar International Film Festival 2016 – Best Dhow Film
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0 Interview
Interview
Director: Ryan Kayet
Duration: 19:00 Minutes
Synopsis:
An eager applicant walks into the pivotal interview of his career. When the employer rejects him before it begins, the young man shows him just how tenacious he can be.
Director: Ryan Kayet
Director
Ryan is an up-and-coming filmmaker that excels as a screenwriter, director, and producer. After receiving high praise for his thesis film, Lurker, Ryan co-founded Riverlife Productions with a desire to focus on strong character driven narratives. He has directed the bravoFACT funded short film One Day at a Time, based on the award winning Canadian play Cancer Can’t Dance Like This, and several music videos that have been featured on Much Music and many online websites. Interview, a dramatic short about race, power, and the importance of choosing your words carefully, was funded by the Ontario Arts Council and has just begun the festival circuit. His most recent project, Cancel the F—ING Internet, is a comedic short that has just completed.
Dave Gibson – Producer
Dave is an accomplished creative and corporate media producer. His first project was the acclaimed student film Lurker, which lead him to co-found Riverlife Productions in 2008 and he has never looked back. Working in corporate media, Dave has obtained ample experience in the planning and execution of video production. His work has gained him considerable respect in the community, and has lead to him becoming a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee award recipient in 2012. The leadership and project management skills he has developed have enabled him to produce powerful short films and music videos. His video Where Would I Be has been featured in publications like Urbanology Magazine. He has also produced for broadcast, such as his bravoFACT funded short film Cancer Can’t Dance Like This: One Day at a Time for bravo in 2010 and One in Eleven for Much Music in 2012. More recently, Dave produced the short film All for Davey which was a finalist in the 48 Hour Film Project and produced the Ontario Arts Council funded short film Interview which is currently on the festival circuit.
Ahsan Butt – Writer
Ahsan Butt is a writer and essayist. His first two screenplays were official selections of the Toronto International Teen Movie Festival in 2002, while his short fiction and essays have appeared, or are forthcoming, in The Offing, The James Franco Review, Eclectica Magazine, LitroNY, as well as The Monarch Review. Recently, he acted as Fiction Editor for an issue of The James Franco Review, a literary magazine focused on the visibility of marginalized writers, especially those who are not James Franco. Ahsan was born in Toronto, is of Pakistani descent, and currently lives in Los Angeles.
Richard Young – Lead Actor
Richard Young is an actor who most recently acted opposite Sir Derek Jacobi
in the feature The History of Love, based on the internationally bestselling novel. His acting credits include The Strain, Rookie Blue, Saving Hope, Degrassi, Mayday, the digital series MsLabelled (Shaftesbury/Smokebomb) and the feature English Butler Masala Chai (Vision TV). Richard is also a co-creator/writer/actor on the Bell Media OMNI/Rogers digital Kung Fu series Sudden Master, and he produced/wrote/acted in the digital series Off2Kali, featuring a who’s who of Canadian talent such as Colin Mochrie (Who’s Line Is ItAnyway?), Charlotte Hegele (Bomb Girls), Huse Madhavji (Saving Hope) and Katie Boland (Reign). Off2Kali was profiled by CBC’s Punchline and screened at the ReelWorld, Filmi and Toronto Web Festivals. In theatre, Richard is an alumnus of the Nightwood Theatre Emerging Actor Program, was part of the Second City’s Educational and Family Companies, and performed to sold-out audiences across the country in the touring romantic-comedy play 30 Dates.
Twitter: @RichardYoungRY
Charlie Ebbs –Lead Actor
A founding member of the stage and TV comedy group, Ottawa Sketch, Charlie has appeared in over 25 film and television shows including Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal (2013), Crook (2014), and Tell the World (2015), as well as his television appearances in Hard Rock Medical (TVO),192 (BRAVO), Real Detective (CTV), and Best Laid Plans (CBC), amongst others. With his professional partner, Rachelle Casseus, he wrote and co-produced two successful short films, The Hold Up (2012) which premiered in Los Angeles at the Hollyshorts Film Festival, and The Buckley Brothers (2014), which won Best Comedy at the 2014 Lady Filmmakers Fest in Los Angeles, California. Charlie also has numerous stage credits and is a member of the NW9 Theatre Collective an Ottawa-based professional ensemble. Self-employed as a photographer and writer for over 25 years, and more recently as an actor, Charlie has spent his life defying the idea of ‘don’t quit your day job’
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0 Spunkle
Spunkle
Canadian Premiere
Director: Lisa Donato
Duration: 11 Minutes
Synopsis:
A brother contemplates fatherhood when his older sister and her free-spirited wife ask him to be their sperm donor.
Director: Lisa Donato
Lisa Donato is an award-winning writer and director based out of Austin, Texas. She recently co-wrote the feature film, SIGNATURE MOVE, which was chosen for the TriBeCa Film Institute program in 2016. The movie will be released to the festival circuit in early 2017. Production, writing, and directorial credits include shows for National Geographic Wild, Oprah Winfrey Network, two feature documentaries, and several award-winning short films and music videos.
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Short Film: Calcutta Taxi
Saturday, September 28th, 2013 @ 6:30
“CALCUTTA TAXI”
Directed and Written by Vikram Dasgupta
Length: 20 Minutes
Country: Canada/India
Year: 2013
Cast: Anand Rajaram, Vipin Sharma, Sunnie D’souza
Calcutta Taxi is set in the grimy backdrop of a city going
through a political crisis, unraveling the story of three
lives that coincide and affect each other. Each one having
lost and found some things in this chance encounter of
life.
AWARDS
Aspen Winner/Best Drama “Oscar Qualifier”
Winner Rhode Island International Film Festival
Official Selection Clermont Ferrand
Winner Audience Choice Award River to River Florence
Winner Best Short/Runner Up Anchorage Internation Film Festival
Offical Selection Austin Film Festival
Synopsis:
A young Art College student Aditya Chaterji finds his
backpack and belongings stolen on the day of a political
strike called by the infamous political party of Calcutta.
Meanwhile Bakul Bihari faces the opportunity of a lifetime
to win big for his glorious though covetous efforts to help
a poor boy in distress.
Cab driver Rasul Ahmed discovers a bomb in his backseat at
a congested traffic signal in an extremely unpredictable
and sensitive slum area of Calcutta.
Set in the grimy backdrop of a city going through a
political crisis, Calcutta Taxi unravels the story of three
lives that coincide and affect each other. Each one having
lost and found some things in this chance encounter of
life.
Director’s Biography: Vikram Dasgupta was born in New Delhi, India in 1977 into a
family of artists and musicians. After finishing his high school in New Delhi, he got
accepted into one of the oldest and most prestigious colleges of it’s kind-The
Government College of Arts, Calcutta (est.1864). He graduated from his five year Fine
Arts Degree with honors scholarship and was awarded the Gold Medal for outstanding
achievement in the field of art and design. While still in Art School he made a short
docudrama ‘inSANITY’ about a homeless artist on the streets of Calcutta. Submitting this
short film as a portfolio enabled him to get accepted into The Advanced Film and
Television program at Sheridan College, Canada in 2001. He has been living in Canada
ever since and has been working in Film and TV at various creative capacities, including
having worked for Indian musical genius AR Rahman of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ fame on
multiple occasions
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Feature Film: Simple Superstar
TORONTO PREMIERE
Simple Superstar
Written and Stars Wilbur Sargunaraj
Length: 92 Minutes
Country: Canada/India
Year: 2013
Synopsis:
“A champion for the common person” Wilbur Sargunaraj, the simple man known for his Eastern Latrine educational video and popular Love Marriage Music Video, has been called “India’s First YouTube Star” by The Times of India. He is now coming to the big screen with a semi-biographical story of Wilbur Sargunaraj in the musical “Simple Superstar” – a comical, philosophical look at the man who has encouraged people to climb down the ladder and celebrate the common!
Made entirely by the support of Wilbur Sargunaraj’s fan base and the wilbur world wide community, this movie was created using the help of social media. Cast and crew were hand picked by Wilbur Sargunaraj from the fan base on Facebook and Twitter. The Film will be released in various cities around the world through the 2013 film festival circuit. We are looking for you to help us make the common extraordinary! Spread the word!
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