Eisha Marjara

Online cinema

• House for Sale
  

  • Fiction
  • Drame
  • 18 min
  • anglais
  • 2012

• The Tourist
  

  • Fiction
  • Drame
  • 25 min
  • anglais
  • 2006

• Desperately Seeking Helen
  

  • Documentaire
  • 80 min
  • anglais
  • 2000

Filmography

• Venus

  • Fiction
  • Comédie
  • 85 min
  • anglais
  • 2017
  Genres, générations et cultures entrent en collision dans cette comédie sur la cellule familiale moderne. Une femme transgenre d’origine indienne, voit sa vie chambardée par l’arrivée de son fils adolescent… Main theme: Sexualité,
  Prix : Winner of Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ)
  EDA Award for Best Female Directed Feature (Whistler Film Festival 2017)
  Audience Award for Best Feature (Reelout Queer Film + Video Festival 2018)
  Best Narrative Feature (Cinequest 2018)
  Best Actor - Jamie Mayers (Transgender Film Festival, Kiel, Germany 2018)
  Best Trans Performance - Debargo Sanyal (Transgender Film Festival, Kiel, Germany 2018)
  Distribution : FunFilm Distribution
  Diffusion : Atlanta Film Festival - Cinequest Film Festival - Whistler Film Festival - Festival du Nouveau Cinéma - London Indian Film Festival

• House for Sale

  • Fiction
  • Drame
  • 18 min
  • anglais
  • 2012
  Un étranger se présente comme acheteur dans une maison de banlieue qui est à vendre. «Qu’est-ce que je fais ici?» Se demande-t-elle. Alors que la femme du propriétaire fait visiter… Secondary theme(s): Luttes sociales, Sexualité.
  Prix : Jury Award Best Canadian Short (Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival)
  Best International Men's Short (NCGLFF)
  Winner Crystal Cactus Award- Best Short (Out in the Desert LGBT Film Festival)
  Best Performance Atif Siddiqi (Mosaic South Asian International Film Festival)
  Best Performance Atif Siddiqi (Fetisch Film Festival, Germany)
  Audience Award (Image+Nation Film festival)
  Best Short Film (Long Island LGBT Film Festival)
  Distribution : Eisha Marjara
  Diffusion : RVCQ - Sicilia LGBT Film Festival - Image + Nation Film Festival - Fairy Tales Film Festival - Mix Milano Film Festival

• The Tourist

  • Fiction
  • Drame
  • 25 min
  • anglais
  • 2006
  Ron, un touriste canadien muni d’un appareil photo, est en vacances sans fin et se remet d’un chagrin après que sa femme l’a quitté pour un autre homme. Quand il… Main theme: Société, Secondary theme(s): Voyage.
  Distribution : Eisha Marjara
  Diffusion : RVCQ - Female Eye Film Festival - Hofer Filmtage

• Desperately Seeking Helen

  • Documentaire
  • 80 min
  • anglais
  • 2000
  L’histoire de la réalisatrice Eisha Marjara nous emmène d’abord à son enfance dans une petite ville enneigée au Québec puis à Bombay en Inde où elle tente désespérément de retrouver… Main theme: Art et culture, Secondary theme(s): Immigration, Sexualité.
  Prix : Prix de La Semaine de Critique (Locarno Film Festival); Special Jury Prize (München Dokumentarfilm Festival)
  Distribution : Office National du Film du Canada
  Diffusion : Festival du Film Locarno - Festival; Dokumentarfilmfestival München - Saint John's Women's Film festival - Women in the Director's Chair Film Festival - Mumbai Documentary Film Festival

BIOGRAPHY

With a background in photography, Montreal-based filmmaker Eisha Marjara first drew attention with the witty and satirical The Incredible Shrinking Woman which showed off her skills as writer, cinematographer and director. But it was her feature NFB docudrama Desperately Seeking Helen (2000) that established her as a groundbreaking filmmaker. The film received the Critic’s Choice Award at the Locarno Film Festival and the Jury Prize at the München Dokumentarfilm Festival. It has been described as “one of the most auspicious film debuts on the Canadian scene.” Her German-Canadian The Tourist (2006) and drama House For Sale (2012) received multiple awards at various international film festivals. Marjara wrote and directed award-winning feature Venus, with Compass Productions. She has also authored a novel Faerie, about a teenager struggling with anorexia. Faerie received rave receives in Canadian and American press including a star review in US Publisher’s Weekly.She is now developing the feature film Calorie with Compass Productions.

AREAS OF ACTIVITY

• Documentaire, Fiction, Expérimental
• Court métrage, Long métrage
• Film

EMAIL
[email protected]

WEB SITE
eishamarjara.com

USEFUL REFERENCES AND LINKS

https://compassproductions.ca/en/eisha-marjara-bio/