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Venus (2017 film)

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Venus
Directed byEisha Marjara
Written byEisha Marjara
Produced byJoe Balass
StarringDebargo Sanyal
Jamie Mayers
Zena Darawalla
Pierre-Yves Cardinal
Gordon Warnecke
CinematographyMark Ellam
Edited byMathieu Bouchard-Malo
Music byPatrice Dubuc
Gaëtan Gravel
Production
company
Compass Productions
Release date
  • October 9, 2017 (2017-10-09)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

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]

Awards and nominations

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The film received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Makeup (Tammy-Lou Pate) at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019.

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