Venus (2017 film)

Venus
Directed byEisha Marjara
Written byEisha Marjara
Produced byJoe Balass
StarringDebargo Sanyal
Jamie Mayers
Zena Darawalla
Pierre-Yves Cardinal
Gordon Warnecke
CinematographyMark Ellam
Edited byMathieu Bouchard-Malo
Music byPatrice Dubuc
Gaëtan Gravel
Production
company
Compass Productions
Release date
  • October 9, 2017 (2017-10-09)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Venus is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Eisha Marjara and released in 2017.[1] The film stars Debargo Sanyal as Sid, an Indo-Canadian who is just beginning to come out as a transgender woman when she unexpectedly discovers that she has a teenage son (Jamie Mayers) with a former high school girlfriend.[2]

The cast also includes Zena Darawalla, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Amber Goldfarb and Gordon Warnecke.

The film premiered on the film festival circuit in 2017, before going into general theatrical release in 2018.[3]

Awards and nominations

The film received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Makeup (Tammy-Lou Pate) at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019.

References

  1. ^ "Review: Venus is an insightful drama with a big heart". The Globe and Mail, May 17, 2018.
  2. ^ "Venus tackles a transgender story from an immigrant lens" Archived 2019-02-12 at the Wayback Machine. Now, May 17, 2018.
  3. ^ "Eisha Marjara forgoes the drama in transgender tale Venus". Montreal Gazette, March 2, 2018.


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