Eisha Marjara

With a background in photography, Montreal-based Eisha Marjara first drew attention with the witty and satirical THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING WOMAN. 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) was nominated as best short at the Female Eye Film Festival and her transgender drama HOUSE FOR SALE (2012) received multiple awards at various festivals. VENUS is her first fiction feature. Her photo series and essay on the Air India tragedy of flight 182 Remember me Nought was featured in Descant magazine. Marjara has also authored her debut novel Faerie, (Arsenal Pulp Press) about a teenager struggling with anorexia. Faerie has received rave reviews in Canadian and American press.

Marjara has recently been selected for the 2017 TIFF Studio. She is developing her second feature CALORIE with Compass Productions. CALORIE was also selected for the 2016 Goa Film Bazaar coproduction market and for the Praxis Screenwriters Lab where Marjara was mentored by screenwriter Guinevere Turner (American Psycho, The Notorious Bettie Page).