Vivek Shraya

[A man with short-cropped hair stands thigh-deep in a lake, looking over his shoulder into the camera.

Ache in My Name is Vivek Shraya’s new short film.

Self-definition. Is a name how it’s pro­noun­ced or how you pronounce it?

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Seeking Single White Male is Vivek Shraya’s first short film, a study of a brown body in (queer) white spaces.

Among my favourites… Self-hatred and shadism, taboo subjects in progressive Indian circles, are bluntly, and literally, turned face-front toward the viewer.

The Globe and Mail

Simply put, I loved this one. Brilliant.

Amanjeet K Chauhan

More press: Inside Toronto, The Gang’s All Queer,
The New Gay, Masala Canada.

A Polaroid photo of a brown-skinned man with blond hair and blue eyes, overlaid with large text: SEEKING SINGLE WHITE MALE.

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