Showcasing social justice films that break barriers and create impactful change

Sundar Prize Film Festival

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The Sundar Prize is an international film awards competition with over $10,000 in cash prizes for the Top 5 films in the select categories:

Human Rights
Immigrants and Refugees
Social Justice Issues
Indigenous Peoples
People of Color
LGBTQ+ Community
Vulnerable and Marginalized Peoples
Environmental and Climate Change
Educational Films

The Sundar Prize Film Festival seeks to recognize beautiful films that uplift our world through impactful and informative storytelling about social issues that have social impact.

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Film Prizes

Rogers Best Canadian Documentary Award
Sundar Prize Film Festival

$2500 cash prize

KDocsFF Emerging Filmmaker Residency Prize

Sundar Prize Film Festival

$1000 CAD cash prize.

Sher Vancouver Award for Best LGBTQ+ Film

International South Asian Film Festival (ISAFF)*

$2000 cash prize

Sher Vancouver Award for Best LGBTQ+ Film

Vancouver Asian Film Festival (VAFF)*

$1000 cash prize

*For more information on the VAFF and ISAFF awards email info@shervancouver.com

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Creating films that are

Informative

Impactful

Inspirational

Screenings in Schools

We'd love to bring these films to your high school, college, university, or community followed by a discussion led by a Sher facilitator touching upon topics such as sexuality, gender identity, & coming out.

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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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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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Showcasing social justice films that break barriers and create impactful change

Sundar Prize Film Festival

Enter the Film Festival

Film Prizes

Where cinema meets social change

Creating films that are

Informative

Impactful

Inspirational

Screenings in Schools

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