SAWITRI Theatre Group and The Open Space come together again to offer an exciting opportunity for emerging filmmakers!
The filmmaking workshops culminate in short films that tell the story of each production that is being presented in the Mississauga Multilingual Fringe® Festival 2025. These films become a part of MMFF Shorts – The Film Festival!
Twleve short films documenting the development of ideas, through conflicting values expressed by young talented playwrights and actors. New Canadians from South Asia working through cultural issues in English and in their native language, finding a balance between two cultures and expressing it publicly for the first time.
MMFF Shorts – The Film Festival seeks to capture the stimulating discussions and construction of story and play that bring ideas and values to life from native culture to new home culture and bridging ‘then’ with ‘now’. These films will explore how they do it, how they think it, and what it feels like to be on the inside with the creators striving to put into words the backstory behind the play they will present for the first time in a matter of days.
Each film story will be 5-7 minutes in duration, including credits, and each will be appraised in terms of the entertainment value they bring to sharing their creative approach to presenting their ideas, showing how feelings and humour, insights and truths become a play that unfolds on stage.
Final films may be in English or not in English. Where not in English, the film will have English subtitles.
Please send in your applications to admin@sawitri.ca.
Films have to completed by 22nd. July to be shown at the MMFF 2025 Kick Off Festival on 26th. July. An honorariun of $200 will be offered.
Questions – Please email admin@sawitri.ca
