Directing

Renuka Jeyapalan

Known for

Directing

Credits

8 titles

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

Behind the camera

Stay the Night poster
6.9

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

2022

Stay the Night poster
6.9

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

2022

Big Girl poster
7.0

Playfully competing with Mom's new boyfriend, nine-year-old Josephine learns that letting people in can lead to wonderful things.

Big Girl

2005

Big Girl poster
7.0

Playfully competing with Mom's new boyfriend, nine-year-old Josephine learns that letting people in can lead to wonderful things.

Big Girl

2005

Ordinary Days poster
6.8

A college student disappears for five ordinary days.

Ordinary Days

2017

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NR

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.

Life Support

2019

A Bicycle Lesson poster
NR

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

2016

A Bicycle Lesson poster
NR

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

2016