Navin Ramaswaran

Navin Ramaswaran is a Director & Editor represented by Integral Artists,Toronto,ON. His feature film Chasing Valentine has garnered critical and public acclaim and has won multiple awards including Best Picture at film festivals worldwide. The movie was made under his own banner Splice Films and is currently being released in North America and Europe. Navin recently released Poor Agnes, a horror/thriller to wildly positive critical and public reviews. Winning the coveted Barry Convex Award for Best Canadian Film at the 2017 Fantasia Film Festival, this is what the jury members had to say about the film and the filmmaker – “Poor Agnes was chosen to represent the 2017 Barry Convex Award not only for its impressive direction, darkly comic storytelling and overall unified vision, but for its challenging attitude. Coming out of a country with a system where voices of subversion against, and challenges to, the mainstream status quo are few and far between - and yet more important than ever – Poor Agnes acts as a daring and powerful middle finger against establishment filmmaking.” Under Ramaswaran’s direction, Lora Burke who plays the title character also won the Best Female Actor in a Leading Role award at the 2017 Toronto After Dark Film Festival. “Navin is a born director with finely honed instincts for making everything he touches look better than expected. Rapport with actors is one of his great strengths, and his insight into the human condition is precise and clear. His visual style is elegant and refined but always at the service of the story and characters”, comments George Mihalka (Director - My Bloody Valentine). “It’s the calculated chaos that excites me when it comes to filmmaking”, says Ramaswaran. Through his passion and drive for filmmaking, Navin believes in putting together a strong team to create content that stands above the rest. Navin is currently prepping to direct a block of the long-running TV show, Fear Thy Neighbour (Season 9), and is in post-production for his upcoming horror feature, Invited.