Ahead of her TIFF premiere, Preeti Torul joins Customatic TV to discuss Demons. A short film that doubles as a proof of concept for her upcoming television series. Both actor and screenwriter, Torul brings fearless honesty to her work, weaving humor and heartbreak into stories that feel deeply human.
Frustrated by the limited, surface-level roles available to actors of colour, Torul began writing Demons to reclaim complexity. To create characters with depth, contradiction, and truth. What emerged is a story rooted in her own experiences growing up in downtown Toronto and navigating a fractured relationship with her mother. Demons explores how generational pain lingers, and how we learn not to erase it, but to live with it.
In this Between the Frames: TIFF 50th Anniversary Edition conversation, Torul opens up about collaborating with Kelly Fyffe-Marshall, finding catharsis through storytelling, and how her work as an actor, writer, editor, and comedian all speak the same creative language.
“My why,” she shares, “is to make stories so broke and broken people can feel seen. And make them laugh or else it’s too dark!”
Watch the full conversation as Preeti Torul shares the making of Demons and the vision for the full series it will become.
