Karen Lam
Directing
Biography
Karen Lam is a Canadian director, writer, and producer specializing in horror and thriller genres. She began her career as a producer and entertainment lawyer before transitioning to directing.
Known For

When a cheer squad practices their routines on Halloween weekend in an abandoned school, they are picked off one by one by an unknown killer.
Bring It On: Cheer Or Die

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.
The Corporation

Horror fan Tal Zimerman examines the psychology of horror around the world to find out why people love to be scared.
Why Horror?

Evangeline (Kat de Lieva) has left her sheltered upbringing to reinvent herself in college. As she begins to break out of her shell, she attracts the attention of a sociopathic fraternity leader (Richard Harmon) and his two cohorts. “Beaten and left for dead, Evangeline finds herself trapped in a supernatural nightmare, where she is caught between salvation and vengeance. But to save herself, Evangeline discovers she must make the most horrifying choice of all…
Evangeline

Seven female directors present seven short films.
7 from Etheria

An intense thriller about a lonely bookseller's obsessive love affair, and her protective best friend, who alone knows the horrible truth about her obsession.
Stained
An anxiety-ridden art dealer faces his worst nightmare.
Chiral

All-female directed horror anthology with the theme of revenge.
Shevenge

A young woman and her father, both of whom have horns, try to evade a violent cult attempting to eradicate their kind.
The Faraway Place

A documentary on horror and feminism through the eyes of female filmmakers in the Vancouver independent scene.
Girls with Guts

A hopeless romantic with big dreams, Steve is an ex-con hired to chauffeur a mob boss' girlfriend for a night. He's blissfully unaware that his passenger has died and is now possessed by one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Armageddon Road

Willow Song, a recovering addict and parolee, struggles to start over. Willow finds herself in a concrete wasteland. Facing isolation and displacement, shadows creep into Willow's mind and her nightmares become too real.
The Curse of Willow Song

When Siu Yee, a young Chinese immigrant, is hired at Mrs Chang’s foot massage parlour, she learns that success in her new country will require a perverse sacrifice in this surreal horror short.
Mrs. Chang's Perfect Teeth

Alex Macey is getting divorced. In an underground parking garage an emotional call to his wife cuts out. Returning to his car he confronts a would be car jacker. With violent results
Stalled

A serial killer's bad day is made worse when he picks up the wrong girl.
Doll Parts

In a weekly meet-up, four serial killers confess their sins, hoping for redemption. But all hell breaks loose when a newcomer decides to join...
The Meeting
A quiet college campus becoming terrorized by the threat of a serial killer after an honor student is murdered in her dorm.
Ann Rule's Danger in the Dorm
A short experimental horror film that deconstructs the nature of the creature feature, minus the actual creature.
The Pit: A Study in Horror

In this suspenseful retelling of the Bluebeard fairytale, Lizzie discovers her lover Michael's macabre secret when she is left alone in his home overnight.