Superfan
Nav came to Canada as a 1984 refugee, sold 127 cars in four months, and became the Toronto Raptors' most recognizable fan — a story about belonging, basketball, and not taking a single day for granted.
Superfan
- Year
- 2014
- Runtime
- 12 min
- Director
- Shon Gill, Drew Moe, Frederick Bourbon
- Executive Producer
- Satinder "Bicky" Singh
- Produced By
- Sikhlens, CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY DODGE COLLEGE OF FILM AND MEDIA ARTS
- Location
- Canada
Synopsis
Navneet, known as Nav, arrived in Canada as a refugee after the 1984 anti-Sikh violence in India. He built a life from scratch, eventually becoming a car salesman who broke records — 127 cars sold in four months — and somewhere along the way became the face of Raptors fandom in Toronto, appointed by the NBA as a South Asian ambassador for the team. His friendship with Jonas Valanciunas, the Raptors center who became a genuine friend and not just a celebrity he'd met courtside, is one of the film's warmest details.
What makes Nav compelling is not the accumulation of achievements but the energy behind them. He's someone for whom gratitude is not a sentiment but a practice, rooted in a specific memory of what he left behind and what he was given. His presence at Raptors games — visible, loud, undeniably himself — is an expression of that. Superfan is a film about what it looks like when someone decides to show up fully for the country that gave them a second chance.
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Film Credits
- Director
- Shon Gill, Drew Moe, Frederick Bourbon
- Executive Producer
- Satinder "Bicky" Singh
- Producer
- Shon Gill
- Produced By
- Sikhlens, CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY DODGE COLLEGE OF FILM AND MEDIA ARTS
- Editor
- Rachel Werth
- Cinematography
- Kasra Shokravi
- Music
- Killer Tracks
- Sound
- Mohit Kakkar
- Film Location
- Canada
- Runtime
- 12 min
- Festival Screenings
- Sikhlens Arts and Film Festivals