Webinar – Conversation with Esther Caszo
Jun 4, 2026 – 06:30 PM Eastern Time
(US and Canada)
RTDNA Presents In Conversation with Esther Caszo, Producer, Director, and Writer on the importance of telling stories that push the boundaries.
June 4th, 6:30pm, with an interactive Q & A to follow
Esther Caszo is a Toronto-based Producer, Director and Writer with 12+ years of experience across Canada, the UK, and India. She built her career producing unscripted television and branded content for major broadcasters including CBC’s Dragons’ Den and Rogers’ Cityline and Breakfast Television. In 2025, she founded 4:14 Films Inc. and pivoted into fiction, writing, directing and producing Cry Baby Cry, a short film on consent with an all-female crew and South Asian cast, which screened at IFFSA, MISAFF, Canada Shorts, and the Toronto Short Film Festival. She is currently in Post Production for a short about identity, masculinity and mental health. Esther makes urgent, culturally specific stories that centre underrepresented communities.
Cry Baby Cry Press Kit – Esther Caszo
Cry Baby Cry follows Liz, a woman in her early thirties, as she navigates the aftermath of stealthing—an intimate betrayal that leaves her raw, distant, and struggling to reconnect with herself. Haunted by fear and fractured trust, Liz leans on a dear friend Ramya, whose sharp wit andunwavering support offers both comfort and challenges. Their friendship becomes a vital anchor, though Liz remains caught between longing for sexual freedom and the shadows of her trauma. Encouraged to try online dating, Liz confronts shallow exchanges that only magnify her unresolved pain. Flashbacks blur moments of intimacy with the violation that altered her sense of agency, underscoring the heavy societal and emotional weight of consent.
The film resists neat resolution, instead closing with Liz’s quiet resilience, a raw, intimate portrait of healing as a messy, non-linear process, and a testament to the courage it takes to reclaim one’s voice and autonomy.