Saudade is a short narrative film about two women in modern India. Geet is a young small-town immigrant with big dreams, headed to the city. Annie is a city-bred homemaker whose dreams have long since faded. Though they lead starkly different lives, they are brought together by Saudade – the memory of a dream they each once dared to have, and a burning desire to achieve it.
The film is an official selection with several international film festivals across India, the US, Canada, UK, and Italy thus far, and has won awards for Best Original Score and Best Film on Women.
Mark D’Cruz is an artist-entrepreneur and founder of CruZor Productions, an Indie Film Production Company.
‘Saudade’ is Mark’s first short film as Director. Prior to this, he wrote the original screenplay of his first feature film, ‘DaEMON The Mirror Lies’ – a multiple award winning genre film across several international film festivals. Both ‘DaEMON The Mirror Lies’ and ‘Saudade’ have also been produced, scripted, edited and sound designed by him. ‘DaEMON’ also had Mark perform in an award-winning supporting actor role. The film is now streaming internationally on Amazon Prime (except India and Japan).
In addition, Mark has performed in various theatre productions and also owns an online art gallery.