MOTHERLAND (2023)

During 1979 at the height of the Iran Hostage crisis, Babak goes on a trip to meet his fiancé’s parents and ends up confronting the realities of what it means to be an Iranian immigrant in a patriotic post-Vietnam America.

AWARDS
WINNER Best Canadian Short Film, Toronto International Film Festival 2023
WINNER Drama Jury Award, Aspen Shortsfest 2024
WINNER Best Live Action Short Drama, Canadian Screen Awards 2024
WINNER Performance in a Live Action Short Drama, Canadian Screen Awards 2024

SELECT FESTIVALS
2023 Toronto International Film Festival (Canada)
2024 Aspen Shortsfest (USA)
2024 Palm Springs ShortFest (USA)

Produced with the support of Canada Arts Council & Ontario Arts Council

director of photography
FARHAD GHADERI

production designer
HELEN KOTSONIS

costume designer
MARA ZIGLER

editor
ALEXANDER FARAH

FIRECRACKERS (2018)

Two best friends’ plan to escape their destitute town becomes derailed when the consequences of a night of debauchery begins to dismantle their friendship and threatens their chance at freedom.

PRESS

CRITIC’S PICK ‘Firecrackers’ Review: Young, Angry and Trapped - New York Times
Film Review: ‘Firecrackers’ - Variety
Review: Canadian drama ‘Firecrackers’ marks the daring arrival of new talent - LA Times
Jasmin Mozaffari’s Firecrackers: A Gripping, Beautifully Controlled Debut Film - Vulture
'Firecrackers': Film Review - The Hollywood Reporter
Review: Jasmin Mozaffari’s Firecrackers is an incendiary, four-star debut  - Globe & Mail
This story of small-town women yearning to escape is one of the best Canadian films in years - The Star 
Jasmin Mozaffari’s Female-Centric TIFF Premiere Challenges the Patriarchy - IndieWire
TIFF 2018: 10 Must-See Movies, According To Film Experts - Huffington Post Canada
One to watch – the dynamite Jasmin Mozaffari and her feature debut Firecrackers - Globe & Mail

AWARDS
WINNER Best Film, XXIX Competition, Stockholm Film Festival
WINNER Best Actress (Michaela Kurimsky), XXIX Competition, Stockholm Film Festival

WINNER Achievement in Direction, Canadian Screen Awards 2019
WINNER Achievement in Editing, Canadian Screen Awards 2019
NOMINEE Achievement in Costume Design, Canadian Screen Awards 2019
NOMINEE John Dunning Best First Feature Film Award, Canadian Screen Awards 2019

Official Selection, TIFF’s Canada’s Top 10 2018
NOMINEE Toronto Film Critics Association Rogers Best Canadian Film Award

SELECT FESTIVALS
2018 Toronto International Film Festival (Canada)
2018 Zurich Film Festival (Switzerland)
2018 Filmfest Hamburg (Germany)
2018 São Paulo International Film Festival (Brazil)
2018 Stockholm International Film Festival (Sweden)
2018 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Estonia)
2019 Luxembourg City Film Festival (Luxembourg)
2019 Prague International Film Festival (Czech Republic)
2019 Seattle International Film Festival (USA)
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival (UK)

Produced with the participation of TELEFILM CANADA and the TALENT FUND.

director of photography
CATHERINE LUTES

production designer
THEA HOLLATZ

costume designer
MARA ZIGLER

editor
SIMONE SMITH

composer
CASEY MQ

PROWLER FILM is a Toronto-based production company founded by writer/director Jasmin Mozaffari and producer Caitlin Grabham. Prowler focuses on creating films that stem from a feminist perspective, highlighting narratives and stories that challenge the ideas of gender, masculinity/femininity, misogyny & patriarchal ideals, race, and sexuality.

Jasmin and Caitlin both graduated in 2013 from Toronto Metropolitan University's acclaimed Film Studies program. They first found success with their fourth year thesis film, FIRECRACKERS (2013), which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and went on to screen at numerous festivals around the world including the Vancouver International Film Festival and the Munich International Festival of Film Schools. FIRECRACKERS was subsequently licensed to the CBC for broadcast.

Jasmin and Caitlin's first feature film, FIRECRACKERS, based off of the 2013 short, was selected by Telefilm Canada to receive funding from their Talent to Watch Program (previously Micro-Budget Program). The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2018 to great acclaim, with the Toronto Star calling it “one of the best Canadian films in years.” FIRECRACKERS went on to screen at over 30 festivals internationally. It won Best Film and Best Actress at the Stockholm International Film Festival in 2018, and also took home the 2019 Canadian Screen Award for Achievement in Editing and Achievement in Direction. The film was released theatrically in Canada and the USA and received rave reviews from the New York Times, New York Magazine, LA Times, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and many more.

In 2019, Prowler produced two music videos for acclaimed Canadian group, Austra, for their singles “Risk It” and “Anywayz” with Jasmin directing the videos.

Their most recent short film, MOTHERLAND, premiered at the 2023 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the ShortCuts Award for Best Canadian Short Film. The film also won the Drama Jury Prize when it premiered at Aspen Shortsfest in 2024.

Prowler Film continues to develop new films, premium television content, and music videos.