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Renuka Jeyapalan is a Tamil Canadian film and television director. 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 and was a shortlisted Genie Award finalist for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 27th Genie Awards. 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. Stay the Night, her solo feature debut, premiered in 2022.

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. 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".

References

1. "Two scripted projects nab CBC development deals". Playback, April 27, 2016.
2. "Toronto film fest deemed a hit". Peterborough Examiner, September 19, 2005.
3. "Trailer Park Boys, Bon Cop compete for best picture Genie". CBC News, January 9, 2007.
4. "What to see at Canadian Film Fest and What The Film Festival". Now, March 19, 2018.
5. 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.
6. Victoria Ahearn, "CBC Gem drama series ‘The 410’ dramatizes drug-smuggling case involving Indo-Canadian truck drivers". Toronto Star, May 1, 2019.
7. Brent Furdyk, "2022 Canadian Screen Award Nominees Announced, ‘Sort Of’ & ‘Scarborough’ Lead The Pack". ET Canada, February 15, 2022.

External links

• Renuka Jeyapalan at IMDb

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