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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