Andria Wilson Mirza

Producer, Media Advocacy Leader

Fawzia Mirza’s stylish feature debut mashes up the textures of Indian cinema and a Canadian coming-of-age picture, tracing key moments in the lives of a mother and daughter born three decades apart.

The Queen of my Dreams

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A queer young Muslim woman grapples with the decision to come out to her devout mother, and ends up marrying her male partner to evade silent disapproval.

Coming Around

A rookie drag queen reeling from a break-up escapes to the country, where he finds his grandmother in steep decline but desperate to avoid the local nursing home.

Jump, Darling

Dare to Dream

If we don't support ourselves who will? A conversation between past and present, Supporting Our Selves (SOS) explores how and why the queer community in Toronto, Canada has grown and evolved over the past 40 years, through the lens of one grassroots organization and its impact. From the Bathhouse Raids to BLM's Pride Parade Protest, activists of all generations lead an honest and unflinching narrative journey that charts a community's complex and sometimes conflicting memories.

In 1980s Toronto, when most queer people lived under the radar and sexual orientation wasn't yet included in the human rights code, a little-known organization called the Community One Foundation quietly began its work (known then as The Gay Community Appeal). What started as discreet 'SOS' fundraisers held in private homes, blossomed into a foundation that supports a multitude of organizations including many pillars of the queer Canadian experience including The 519, Inside Out, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, The Pink Triangle Press, Sherbourne Health Centre, the Bill 7 Award, and the Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives.

Through the vital activism of its subjects, Supporting Our Selves paints a vivid portrait of a queer Toronto and its complexities. Along the way we meet Christopher, a trans woman from Uganda who, although having only been in Canada a few years, has already started her own organization to support queer African refugees like herself, leZlie lee kam, a tireless lifelong activist for queer people of color who is constantly looking for ways to support queer and trans people of all ages, Jay, who is creating space and support for 2SLGBTQI+ people with disabilities, and the passionate group of individuals who were inspired to work together to launch Community One 40 years ago.

Supporting Our Selves celebrates the energy and commitment that activism and advocacy takes, while exploring the strength and struggles of Toronto's resilient and diverse 2SLGBTQI+ community members. It also challenges us to look outside ourselves and ask "How can we better support our communities?"

Supporting Our Selves (SOS)

Five prayers coincide with five stages of a Muslim couple's relationship, demystifying queerness in the Muslim community and religion in queerness.

Noor & Layla

Founded and led by Sundance Institute and Women In Film, Los Angeles (WIF), ReFrame is an initiative that employs a unique strategy: a peer-to-peer approach, in which ReFrame Ambassadors engage with senior industry decision-makers at over 50 Partner Companies to implement ReFrame systemic change programs. The initiative’s goals are to provide research, support, and a practical framework that can be used by Partner companies to mitigate bias during the creative decision-making and hiring process, celebrate successes, and measure progress toward a more gender-representative industry on all levels.

ReFrame

All cards are on the table when a queer Pakistani Muslim woman brings her Puerto Rican girlfriend home for the first time on the family's annual game night.

The Syed Family Xmas Eve Game Night

Bite Size Holiday

The day after meeting a crew of 20-somethings at a South Asian happy hour, 39-year-old Hena is thrown into their group text.

Auntie

A teen consumer information show interspersed with comedy.

Street Cents

Two friends have a falling out after a night of dancing.

Body So Fluorescent

Two children discover a black hole and imagine what it would be like to travel through time.

Ingrid and the Black Hole

In 1893 Massachusetts, Lizzie Andrew Borden is put on trial for murdering her father and stepmother with an ax.

Lizzie Borden Took an Ax

Follows the lives of a social worker, a victims' advocate and four others who provide support to victims of violence.

Sex & Violence

A rebellious teenage girl wrestles with the true nature of miracles when her father begins to believe in a religious hoax which she has secretly created.

Faith, Fraud, & Minimum Wage

A morally bankrupt car salesman is forced to become business partners with his inner conscience, an off-beat do gooder intent on healing Fitz's mangled psyche, one hilarious disaster at a time.

Call Me Fitz

Many in the coastal town of Haven, Maine have a dormant curse or "trouble" that could trigger at any time for any reason. FBI agent Audrey Parker, the sheriff and the town's black sheep must deal with the troubles' deadly effects.

Haven

It has been one year since the boys have become rich. Julian decided to keep the money safe, but when it comes time for everyone to get their share, the money is lost forever.