Sai Selvarajan
Directing
Biography
Sai Selvarajan was born on a Wednesday night during a coup d'etat. He grew up in Nigeria playing soccer and eating bananas. After a brief stint in the UK, Sai moved with his parents to Dallas at the age of 9. Sai sold his soul to pop-culture and graduated in 2001 from the University of Texas at Arlington with a degree in Film & Graphic Design. In his last semester, Sai stumbled into stardom with a short film called Blood & Oil and parlayed that into super-stardom with a narrative short, Separated by Light. Sai spends his days editing at Video Post and Transfer in Dallas and his nights dreaming, writing, thinking and trying.
Known For
Unable to conceive, a couple seeks to build a family with a young orphan, survivor of tragic childhood. But their act of love turns to horror when they realize the violence in their foster's past has returned to destroy the new family.
The Other
An adopted Irish American artist confronts her past when both sets of parents come together over a weekend for her to paint a family portrait.
Three Days in August
In present-day Texas, Maya and her on again, off again girlfriend Jules total their car after a night of backwoods raving and teen mischief. They're rescued from the wreckage by Freddy, an oil worker whose stoic facade crumbles as he comes to see himself, and his repressed desires, in Maya. As Jules recovers, Maya and Freddy develop a rapport that dulls the debilitating silence of their small-town lives. Together, they subtly encourage one another to chase after what they want the most (or at least figure out what that might be).
Jules of Light and Dark
A film about a Queer / Trans / BIPOC pickup basketball group in Chicago that has changed numerous lives. The film follows the founding members of SWISH form the on-set of the group to where it is today. We Clap for Airballs is about community and love and what that can mean to a marginalized group.
We Clap for Airballs
Audible Static is the sound you hear when love meets panic. Luckily, there's a way to find your voice in the last days of analogue.
Audible Static
Seven year-old Simon is on a trip to visit his estranged father during one disaster-filled weekend.
Birthday Cake for Dinner
Fifty four years of separation tethered together by a red string of fate and ten years of humble restraint. A man's quest to travel from the biggest thing God made to the biggest thing man made and a brother that was taken away.
Sugarless Tea
A fight to be born, a fight to survive, a fight to find your place, and the fight to maintain. All degrees of the same struggle.
Coup d’etat Math
She’s a Sri Lankan born, Dallas-based, retired teacher and mother. She’s also crazy about basketball. Meet “The Unlikely Fan” who knows a thing or two about hoops.