Best Pilot

THE 410 (PILOT EPISODE)

Renuka Jeyapalan

Hard-boiled noir meets hipster chill in this tale of familial strife and vigilante justice. Desperate to bail her father out of jail, Suri (Indian, blonde and bougie) comes face-to-face with the criminal underworld that operates inside her seemingly quiet suburban community.

*THE 410 is a three-part series. Only pilot episode is being played at the 2020 Salute Your Shorts Film Festival

THE 410 is filled with complex characters and plot twists. And, I’m here for it. Renuka Jeyapalan simultaneously cracks open her culture and an underworld while she reels you in. I’ll be on the lookout because I want to see the next episode. — Elle S (Programmer)

DETAILS

TAGS

Drama, Thriller, True Crime

DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY

Renuka Jeyapalan is a Toronto-based writer/director and graduate of the Canadian Film Centre’s Director’s Lab. Her Genie-nominated short film BIG GIRL screened at the Berlinale, Tribeca Film Festival, and TIFF, where it was awarded Best Short Film.

Her other short films include ARRANGED, which she made for TMN, Movie Central, and the Harold Greenberg Fund, and A BICYCLE LESSON, a finalist on CBC’s Short Film Face-Off. She has directed episodes of MURDOCH MYSTERIES, KIM’S CONVENIENCE, and WORKIN MOMS, and was one of three directors on the Telefilm funded feature ORDINARY DAYS.

Renuka was the winner of the WIFT-T Kodak New Vision Mentorship Award and has completed the TIFF Studio Incubator, Bell Media Diversity Screenwriter’s Program, and the CBC Development Workshop for Diverse Creators.

Currently, Renuka is developing several feature film projects as well as her comedy TV series GIRL IN THE BOYS ROOM, based on her experiences working on Bay Street. She has an Honors Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from the University of Toronto.