Renuka Jeyapalan

Renuka Jeyapalan
EducationUniversity of Toronto (BSc)
Alma mater
Occupations
  • Film director
  • television director
  • screenwriter
Years active2005–present
Known forBig Girl, Stay the Night

Renuka Jeyapalan is a Canadian film director, television director, and screenwriter based in Toronto. She is best known for her award-winning short film Big Girl (2005), which won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film, and her feature film debut Stay the Night (2022), which premiered at South by Southwest. As a television director, she has worked on series including Murdoch Mysteries, Kim's Convenience, Workin' Moms, Ginny and Georgia, Sort Of, and Wayward.