Venus | |
Director: | Eisha Marjara |
Producer: | Joe Balass |
Starring: | Debargo Sanyal Jamie Mayers Zena Darawalla Pierre-Yves Cardinal Gordon Warnecke |
Music: | Patrice Dubuc Gaƫtan Gravel |
Cinematography: | Mark Ellam |
Editing: | Mathieu Bouchard-Malo |
Studio: | Compass Productions |
Runtime: | 95 minutes |
Country: | Canada |
Language: | English |
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]
The film received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Makeup (Tammy-Lou Pate) at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019.