We created this amazing short film with Canadian poet and author Samana Sajan. The poem is from her debut poetry book, I Spoke With The Moon and This Is What She Told Me. We created the film to showcase Samana’s poetry, but also to show the entire process of creating a poem.

Samana is an incredibly unique and powerful poet. When this project started, I was amazed at how fresh and beautiful her writing is. When asked what inspired her to become a poet, this was her answer:

I didn’t start off as a poet, I dabbled with short stories, plays, songs, and as I progressed in that and stumbled across poetry for the first time, reading poets such as Waris Shah, Shiv Kumar Batalvi, Kabir, etc., something called out to me, and I really found that I resonated with poetry in every sense. It touched something profound within me. I tried my hand and ever since I wrote my first poem I never stopped. Since that point I’ve built on that and yeah, it’s been a journey since then and really an ever-evolving process. It doesn’t stop. It grows with me and grows within me, so I’d say that’s how I started. 

Source: The Strand

We filmed the outdoor shots in Tommy Thompson park and the rest of the shots at a location near Koreatown and Little Italy.

You can purchase her book on Amazon by clicking the link below:

“I Saw The Moon and This Is What She Told Me” on Amazon