ABOUT DEV

Dev Ramsawakh is a disabled, non-binary and diasporic Indo-Caribbean multidisciplinary storyteller, producer, and educator whose work focuses on their intersecting identities, community, and deconstructing colonial systems. They often refer to themselves as a “living archive” or an “aggregator of knowledge.”

Dev was the 2019 TVO Short Docs Contest winner and their short films have been screened at film festivals like CaribbeanTales, Inside Out, Toronto Queer Film Festival, and ReelAbilities. Their written work has been published for VICE, The Toronto Star, Chatelaine, CBC, Autostraddle, them, and Xtra, among other publications. Dev has also been a producer on Radio LUMI for Luminato Festival Toronto, a story producer for SKETCH, and adjudicated on jury panels and committees for ReelAbilities Film Festival Toronto, Warner Brothers Discovery, the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television and Toronto Arts Council. They’re included in the Disability Visibility anthology edited by Alice Wong and have fiction in the anthologies Two Times Removed and Toronto 2033.

Dev’s practice has been supported by the Ontario Arts Council , the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT), Tangled Art+Disability, SKETCH Working Arts, and the React, Recreate, Revision project. They also facilitate workshops independently and with CRIP Collective around disability justice, media, storytelling, and more.