Directing
Vivek Shraya
Known for
Directing
Credits
9 titles
Known for
NRFilmed entirely in the director's Toronto apartment, What I LOVE about being QUEER is a candid and raw look at queerness. In some scenes, the hum of Shraya’s refrigerator or soft giggling can be heard off in the distance. It all makes for an honest, yet familiar account of being queer… Shraya’s intimate, yet humourous approach is a welcome change of pace.
What I LOVE about being QUEER
2012
7.0Filmmaker and bestselling author Vivek Shraya’s ode to a popular Edmonton gay bar that closed in 2007. With pulsating neon-light animation, Reviving the Roost is a story about community complexity and longing, and an elegy to a lost space.
Reviving The Roost
2019
NRContemplating suicide: a biography
I want to kill myself
2017
NRHow diversity work led to chronic pain and a journey to healing through weightlifting.
Bodyrebuilding
2025
NRA study of a brown body in (queer) white spaces.
Seeking Single White Male
2016
Film credits
2010s · 2 titles
7.0Filmmaker and bestselling author Vivek Shraya’s ode to a popular Edmonton gay bar that closed in 2007. With pulsating neon-light animation, Reviving the Roost is a story about community complexity and longing, and an elegy to a lost space.
Reviving The Roost
2019
NRContemplating suicide: a biography
I want to kill myself
2017
Behind the camera
NRFilmed entirely in the director's Toronto apartment, What I LOVE about being QUEER is a candid and raw look at queerness. In some scenes, the hum of Shraya’s refrigerator or soft giggling can be heard off in the distance. It all makes for an honest, yet familiar account of being queer… Shraya’s intimate, yet humourous approach is a welcome change of pace.
What I LOVE about being QUEER
2012
7.0Filmmaker and bestselling author Vivek Shraya’s ode to a popular Edmonton gay bar that closed in 2007. With pulsating neon-light animation, Reviving the Roost is a story about community complexity and longing, and an elegy to a lost space.
Reviving The Roost
2019
7.0Filmmaker and bestselling author Vivek Shraya’s ode to a popular Edmonton gay bar that closed in 2007. With pulsating neon-light animation, Reviving the Roost is a story about community complexity and longing, and an elegy to a lost space.
Reviving The Roost
2019
NRContemplating suicide: a biography
I want to kill myself
2017
NRContemplating suicide: a biography
I want to kill myself
2017
NRHow diversity work led to chronic pain and a journey to healing through weightlifting.
Bodyrebuilding
2025
NRA study of a brown body in (queer) white spaces.
Seeking Single White Male
2016
