Renuka Jeyapalan
Directing
Biography
Renuka Jeyapalan is a Toronto, Canada-based writer/director. Her short films have screened at TIFF, TriBeCa, and the Berlinale. She has directed television episodes of Kim’s Convenience, Workin' Moms, Sort Of, and most recently Son Of Critch, as well as the Netflix original series Ginny & Georgia. Stay The Night is Jeyapalan's first feature film.
Known For

An elite squad of detectives investigate high-profile crime and corruption in metro Toronto.
Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent

The funny, heartfelt story of The Kims, a Korean-Canadian family, running a convenience store in downtown Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. Kim ('Appa' and 'Umma') immigrated to Toronto in the '80s to set up shop near Regent Park and had two kids, Jung and Janet who are now young adults. However, when Jung was 16, he and Appa had a major falling out involving a physical fight, stolen money and Jung leaving home. Father and son have been estranged since.
Kim's Convenience

A small-town cop suspects that the local school for troubled teens — and its dangerously charismatic founder — may not be all it seems.
Wayward

A young Inuk woman wants to build a new future for herself after a spontaneous and extremely public exit from her marriage. It won't be easy in a small Arctic town where everybody knows your business.
North of North

Astrid and James, who struggle to find a balance between being mom and dad to two kids and being who they were before offspring.
Children Ruin Everything

Suri, a South Asian female and aspiring influencer, turns to a life of crime to bail her truck driver father out of prison.
The 410

A failed work opportunity prompts chronically single Grace to pursue a one night stand with a stranger. Turns out he's an on-the-outs professional athlete in town with a problem of his own. Maybe they can help each other.
Stay the Night

A college student disappears for five ordinary days.
Ordinary Days

When a call from home interrupts her fun weekend plans, Sabrina travels to the suburbs to visit her mom, Ruby. Ruby welcomes her impatient daughter with a home cooked lunch and a request: teach her to ride a bicycle. Sabrina begrudgingly obliges. Together mom and daughter struggle through a bicycle lesson that becomes increasingly humorous as personalities clash and frustrations mount. But when Sabrina cuts the lesson short and returns the bicycle to the garage, she discovers a disturbing secret that her mother has kept from her. A secret that not only forces them to deal with their broken relationship but also has promise to bring them closer in a way that neither of them expected.
A Bicycle Lesson

Playfully competing with Mom's new boyfriend, nine-year-old Josephine learns that letting people in can lead to wonderful things.
Big Girl
The great Jayne Eastwood gets straight to the heart of the matter in Renuka Jeyapalan’s funny and poignant true-life tale of a very different kind of dog-park encounter.