Karma Film Productions
Mad Cow Sacred Cow
One hour documentary: CBC, SCN, Knowledge Network. Official Selection Whistler Film Festival.
Following up on the Gemini Award winning “Cosmic Current,” filmmaker Anand Ramayya embarks on another personal journey but this time he is a new father, and completely terrified of his food. The steaks are high as his journey reveals shocking connections between the Mad Cow crisis, Farm crisis and Global Food crisis.
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45 RPM
Theatrical Feature Film co-produced with Nomadic Pictures/Don Carmody Productions inc. Official Selecton Vancouver International Film Festival.
In the autumn of 1960, a reclusive teenager discovers love, loss, and rock’n'roll. Fifteen year old Parry Tender doesn’t know where to turn. Small town life is driving him crazy and a precocious girl who looks and acts more like a boy wants to be his girlfriend. When a fluke atmospheric condition allows a fifty thousand watt Manhattan radio station to pump its infectious rock’n'roll signal into Canada’s far north, winning a radio contest might be Parry’s only way out.
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Wapos Bay
Stop Motion Animation Series: APTN, SCN. 2008 Gemini Award–Best Individual or Ensemble Performance/2007 Gemini Award–Best Children’s or Youth Program/2006 Gemini Canada Award.
Aboriginal filmmakers Dennis and Melanie Jackson’s exquisite characters come alive with the voices of well-known Aboriginal performers such as Gordon Tootoosis (North of 60, Legends of the Fall), Andrea Menard (The Velvet Devil) and Lorne Cardinal (Corner Gas). Wapos Bay is a fascinating, and often humorous portrait of a northern Aboriginal community from the perspective of its children.
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Landing
Documentary Series. Produced by Karma Film and Hulo Films in association with The Saskatchewan Intercultural Association.
An award-winning, first person documentary series, Landing tells the intimate stories of Canadians with diverse backgrounds. This season, we travel around the world: from Iraq to Regina and the Congo to La Ronge. Come join these fascinating individuals as they share the journeys of their lives… a Kurdish doctor… a former child soldier… the new pioneers… their encounters are both tearful and humorous.
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Psychedelic Pioneers
One hour documentary: History Television, SCN.
The story of The Psychedelic Pioneers is part leading edge medical research and part utopian idealism. Three gifted psychiatrists, in combination with an extraordinarily powerful drug, resulted in one of the most fascinating and controversial periods in Canadian history.
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Cosmic Current
One hour documentary – NFB, CBC, Vision TV, SCN. 2004 Gemini Canada Award. National Film Board Reel Diversity Winner.
When a life-threatening illness strikes his family, Indo-Canadian filmmaker Anand Ramayya finds himself on a modern-day spiritual pilgrimage to India. He’s joined by his traditional Hindu mother, Jaya, his psychologist/filmmaker father, Ray, and his Japanese rock star brother, Raj. From Saskatchewan and Japan to the south of India, what unfolds is an intimate and entertaining portrait of a family trying to reconnect.
