Cyrus Sundar Singh
Cyrus Sundar Singh is a PhD candidate and a Research Fellow with the CERC in MIgration and Integration at Toronto Metropolitan University. His documentary/storytelling career began with his award-winning debut Film Club (2001), which was followed by a site-specific, hybrid, live-documentary world premiere of Brothers In The Kitchen (2016) and his MFA thesis project Africville in Black and White (2017/18). Cyrus is an AcademiCreActivist: a Gemini Award-winning filmmaker, scholar, songwriter, composer, poet, and change-maker. His work focuses on finding and expanding cracks in conventional boundaries through his research, films and music. Cyrus has written, produced and directed work in a range of genres including documentary, reality, food, and lifestyle for various international broadcasters including BellMedia, CBC, VisionTV, Smithsonian Channel, Discovery Channel, and MuchMusic.
Recent Publications
Singh, C.S. (2024). Brothers in the kitchen: A multidisciplinary look at migration through live-documentary (external link) . In S.I. Rajan (Ed.), India Migration Report 2023. (pp. 208-230). Routledge India.
Singh, C.S. (2024). Messages to ancestors: Following the notes from Africville to emancipation to the door of no return (external link) . ScienceOpen. Preprint.
Singh, C.S., Sarwan, S., Lee, N., Min, S.K., Zhang, J., Phillips, T., & Wang, E. (2022). i am: Circular questions of identity. Canada Watch.
