Karen Lam

Karen has worked full-time in the film and television industry since 2000. Starting her career as a producer and entertainment lawyer, Karen has since written and directed nine short films, three music videos, series directed a true-crime documentary series for Investigation Discovery (US), a web series “Mythos” (2015) created for TELUS, and four feature-length films -- “Stained” (2010), “Evangeline” (2013) and “The Curse of Willow Song” (2020), which premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival in September 2020.  The film won the award for Best British Columbia Feature Film, and Karen received a Best Director award at the British Columbia Leo Awards (2021).  Karen has also written television scripts for SYFY and Netflix on the series “Van Helsing” and “Ghost Wars.”  In 2021, Karen directed the seventh instalment in the Bring It On cheerleading franchise, a Halloween horror special titled “Bring It On:  Cheer Or Die” (2022) that premiered on SYFY in October, and is available for viewing on Crave in Canada (Amazon and Hulu in the rest of the world.).  And in 2023, “The Curse of Willow Song” will finally be available worldwide on September 26, released jointly by Red Water Entertainment (Canada) and Uncork’d Entertainment (world).

Karen just directed two projects in 2024.  The first is a feature film “Armageddon Road” is a darkly comedic supernatural road trip, set in 1970s Las Vegas, with a sly riff on the Biblical Book of Revelations.  The film was shot almost entirely in the volume wall and with miniatures, using a unique combination of old and cutting edge technology.  And  the second project is Karen’s tenth short horror film, “Mrs. Chang’s Perfect Teeth,” which won the Director’s Guild of Canada BC “Established Director Greenlight Award” in the fall 2023.