updates

August 2024

It’s been an amazing couple of years serving as a Co-Producer on Where Saturn Is, a proof of concept for a feature film written and directed by Ramiya Pushparajah (Rambam Films). Where Saturn Is is a dramedy centered around a downbeat Toronto-Tamil millennial who has to host her visiting cousin’s grand desire for a wild vacation, while working on moving back out of her parents’ house. The proof of concept will be going into production this year.

I’m also in the process of working an audio documentary installation for the Bentway’s Staging Grounds, a temporary experimental garden under the Gardiner Expressway, featuring horticulturalist Isaac Crosby (a.k.a Brother Nature) and music by Kevin Ramroop. Coming out soon!

June 2023

I’ve been directing four video stories with Greenhouse Theatre on the 2023 iteration of The Future is Ritual, featuring four diasporic QTBIPOC multi-disciplinary ritual artists.

EP Album Launch – Cocoa Forward – “All Out” – March 2023

I have released my first EP ever as Cocoa Forward!! Listen to EP All Out here:

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CMPA Mentorship – Oct 2022 – February 2023

  • Just finished an incredible 20-week producing mentorship in Scripted Content with Sphere Media, supported by the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA), contributing to the production of a new digital comedy series by writer/creator Vivek Shraya and Director, Vanessa Matsui titled ‘How to Fail as a Popstar’, and  post-production on the award-winning TV series, Sort Of (Season 2).

Awards Announcement – Oct 2022

Workshops:

  • ‘From Scrapbook to Screen’ with Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Toronto w/ Saroja Ponnambalam

New Publications:

  • Fill the Frame with Mist (2021). Ponnambalam, Maria-Saroja. (re)Rites of Passage: Asian Canada in Motion – a special anthology published as part of the Toronto Reel Asian Film International Film Festival. Official URL: https://rarara.ca

TD Community Sunday: From Scrapbook to Screen with Saroja Ponnambalam (Virtual)

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Press:

  • Death To/Long Live: THE ARCHIVE is series of interviews created by Koffler.Digital, exploring the socio-political function of video art and their archives.

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