About KarmaFilm
Founded in 2001 KarmaFilm has built an impressive track record with over 80 hours of content and 40 awards including five Geminis (Canada’s Emmy), and two Canada Awards for excellence in diverse content, a Canadian Screen Award and six nominations, and a Kidscreen Award.
A versatile BIPOC and LGBTQ+ led producer of diverse content, KarmaFilm has worked with creatives from around the globe in animation, live action and documentary film and television. KarmaFilm’s latest feature comedy-drama, Donkeyhead, by first time director Agam Darshi, with Executive Producer Deepa Mehta, has received numerous awards including Best Fiction Feature and Best Canadian Feature. Donkeyhead was picked up by Ava DuVernay’s distribution arm, Array Releasing for a Netflix release in the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand in January 2022 and released theatrically in Canada through LevelFilm in March of 2022 after enjoying an international festival run.
Other notable productions include the award-winning “Our Big Punjabi Family” (Released in 2023) The first of its kind, a mixed language Indo-Canadian sitcom series currently airing on Rogers and nominated for 5 Leo Awards! Documentary feature Shadow of Dumont about Métis freedom fighter Gabriel Dumont (2020 ImagineNative Premiere). Earlier projects include the groundbreaking multiple award-winning stop-motion animated Indigenous series, Wapos Bay which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival leading to a series which garnered five Geminis and Best TV Movie at the Kidscreen Summit in New York. KarmaFilm’s sci-fi animation series Guardians: Evolution, a Canada-India coproduction was the largest stop motion production to have been produced in India. Nominated for two Canadian Screen Awards, the feature documentary Who Killed Gandhi? was selected for Telefilm Canada’s Best in Canada Showcase at MIPDOC and Sunnyside of the Doc and continues to screen at community halls across India as a springboard for debate. Cosmic Current, a personal documentary by KarmaFilm founder Anand Ramayya won the Gemini Canada Award. With both Wapos Bay and Cosmic Current receiving the Canada Award, Karma Film is one of the few companies to have twice been recognized nationally for producing diverse content for mainstream audiences.
Karma Film is currently in pre-production on metis filmmaker Trevor Cameron’s first feature film “#Vanlife” a horror thriller set to be shot on Canada’s largest Volume LED Wall in August of 2024. Other notable feature films include adventure tragedy Brotherhood, winner of the 2020 Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual Effects, released theatrically by Level FILM in Canada. The dramatic feature 45 RPM starring Amanda Plummer, Michael Madsen and Kim Coates, with Nomadic Pictures and Don Carmody Films. The Canadian Screen Award nominated horror Rufus released theatrically with eOne in Canada and with Vertical Entertainment in the US, and wrestling comedy Chokeslam won four Alberta Motion Picture Associations Rosie Awards.
Notable projects on our current slate include animated feature THE TRUTH ABOUT MONSTERS with Anita Doron (writer of Oscar nominated film THE BREADWINNER) & Trevor Cameron (Shadow of Dumont), feature documentary THE ART OF DANCE(in production) for Bell Media with Kevin Fitzgerald of Hip Hop Films (Freestyle : The Art of Rhyme), BENDING LIGHT feature documentary for Superchannel and TVF International (released in 2024), “Better Now” LGBTQ2+ dark comedy series with writer Elyse Freidman and acclaimed director Ian Iqbal Rashid(Touch of Pink, Sort Of winner of the 2022 Peabody Award).
Karma Film is also currently producing a slate of Virtual Productions in the Volume Global LED Wall housed in the John Hopkins Soundstage in Regina Saskatchewan, among them the Michael Jai White starring Hostile Takeover, King of Killers the Series and Venus Prime an adaptation of Arthur C. Clarkes work of the same name.
Ramayya is past president of the Saskatchewan Motion Picture Association, an alumnus of NSI, Strategic Partners and the CFC. In 2020 Ramayya was honoured with the Reelworld TRAILBLAZER AWARD which recognizes diverse Canadian pioneers in the entertainment industry and has most recently been recognized with the Canadian Media Producers Association 2022 Established Producer Award. In 2023 Ramayya was elected to the CMPA national board of directors and currently sits as the co-chair of the Feature Film committee. Karma Film is a member of SMPIA, CMPA and the ACE Producers Network.
With offices in Saskatoon and Toronto founder Anand Ramayya and producer Kelly Balon are known for producing films representative of diverse BIPOC & LGBTQ+ communities and perspectives.
