Sundar Prize Film Festival

2019

My Name Was January

​When a trans sister, January Marie Lapuz, is brutally murdered in her own home in New Westminster, BC, her community reacts and her friends and other trans women of colour come to share and voice their issues, concerns, and challenges. January was seen as a bright light in the lives of many. This is the story of January, a friend, a daughter, a person. This film will not only bring justice to January, but to all the women who have lost their lives. January had a beautiful soul, and now part of her soul rests in each and every one of us.

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2021

Emergence: Out of the Shadows

​For Kayden, Jag, and Amar, awakening to and expressing their sexuality within conservative South Asian families was a lonely and terrifying experience. Denial, shame and despair haunted their youths, even threatening their lives. Yet, they’ve emerged. The disparate journeys of Kayden, Jag and Amar converge around a shared sense of compassion and healing as they bravely convey their often heart-wrenching stories. Confronted with tradition and taboo, Jag’s parents and Amar’s mother choose love and support for their children.

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Coming Soon

I, Migrant

I, Migrant captures the real, true, and authentic stories of the South Asian lived experience of immigrants from India to Canada.  It follows the South Asian immigrant journey of a select cast and documents their adjustment and settlement primarily in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia in real-time as it happens.

This is done within the context of their Indian origins and roots and the South Asian diaspora in their adopted homeland.

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