Renuka Jeyapalan
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Renuka Jeyapalan is a Tamil Canadian film and television director.[1] Her debut short film Big Girl won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival[2] and was a shortlisted Genie Award finalist for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 27th Genie Awards.[3] After directing the short films Arranged (2014) and A Bicycle Lesson (2016), she co-directed the 2017 feature film Ordinary Days with Kris Booth and Jordan Canning.[4] Stay the Night, her solo feature debut, premiered in 2022.[5]
As a television director, Jeyapalan has directed episodes of Murdoch Mysteries, Kim's Convenience, Workin' Moms, Ginny and Georgia, Son of a Critch, and Sort Of, among others.[6] She was nominated for Best Director in a Comedy Series at the 2022 Canadian Screen Awards for directing the Sort Of episode "Sort Of A Party".[7]
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- ^ "Two scripted projects nab CBC development deals". Playback, April 27, 2016.
- ^ "Toronto film fest deemed a hit". Peterborough Examiner, September 19, 2005.
- ^ "Trailer Park Boys, Bon Cop compete for best picture Genie". CBC News, January 9, 2007.
- ^ "What to see at Canadian Film Fest and What The Film Festival". Now, March 19, 2018.
- ^ Marriska Fernandes, "Can wandering Toronto streets in winter be sexy? New film ‘Stay the Night’ tackles the ‘one night’ romance story". Toronto Star, November 17, 2022.
- ^ Victoria Ahearn, "CBC Gem drama series ‘The 410’ dramatizes drug-smuggling case involving Indo-Canadian truck drivers". Toronto Star, May 1, 2019.
- ^ Brent Furdyk, "2022 Canadian Screen Award Nominees Announced, ‘Sort Of’ & ‘Scarborough’ Lead The Pack". ET Canada, February 15, 2022.
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