About KarmaFilm

Recipient of the 2022 Canadian Motion Picture Association (CMPA) Established Producer of the Year Award, 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, two Canadian Screen Award and six nominations, and a Kidscreen Award.

KarmaFilm’s latest feature comedy-drama, Donkeyhead, by director Agam Darshi, with Executive Producer Deepa Mehta and Kim Coates, had its world premiere at the 10th annual Mosaic International South Asian Film Festival presented by Cameron Bailey at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto where it received four awards including Best Fiction Feature and Best Canadian Feature. Ava DuVernay’s distribution arm, Array Releasing, has acquired US, UK, Australia and New Zealand rights for a Netflix release in January 2022. Its Canadian release by Level Film premiered in March 2022, followed by the Canadian broadcast premiere on Superchannel, available on Amazon Prime.

Other notable productions include adventure tragedy Brotherhood, winner of the 2020 Canadian Screen  Award for Best Visual Effects, released by Level Film in Canada. Historical documentary feature Shadow of Dumont, about Métis freedom fighter Gabriel Dumont, premiered at the 2020 ImagineNative Media Arts  Festival and the Yorkton Film Festival. 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. Earlier projects include the groundbreaking multiple award-winning stop-motion animated  Indigenous series, Wapos Bay which premiered at Sundance and launched KarmaFilm’s animation production team leading to 26 hours of animation productions, with five Geminis and Best TV Movie at the Kidscreen  Summit in 2011. KarmaFilm’s sci-fi animation series Guardians: Evolution, a Canada-India coproduction, was the largest stop motion production to have been produced in India. Cosmic Current, a personal documentary by KarmaFilm founder Anand Ramayya won the Gemini Canada Award. 

KarmaFilm produced the dramatic feature 45 RPM starring Amanda Plummer, Michael Madsen and Kim  Coates, with Nomadic Pictures and Don Carmody Films. Young Adult web-series My Lupine Life garnered five LA Webfest Awards for Outstanding Series, Cast, Writing and Special Effects. The Canadian Screen Award-nominated horror Rufus was released theatrically with eOne in Canada and Vertical Entertainment in the US. Wrestling comedy Chokeslam won four Alberta Motion Picture Associations Rosie Awards. 

KarmaFilm has collaborated and coproduced scripted content with some of Canada’s most prolific producers, including JoBro Productions, Hamilton-Mehta Productions, Nomadic Pictures, Don Carmody, and Chaos a film company. With offices in Saskatoon and Toronto, founder Anand Ramayya and producer Kelly Balon are known for producing films representative of diverse BIPOC communities and perspectives. They strive to work with like-minded creators who challenge the heteronormative, patriarchal and colonial mindsets with numerous BIPOC titles in development and slated for production in 2022.