[ Karen Lam Films ]

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 ten short films, three music videos, directed a true-crime documentary series for Investigation Discovery (US), a web series “Mythos” (2015) created for TELUS, and five 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 special entitled “Bring It On:  Cheer Or Die” (2022) which premiered on SYFY in October. "Cheer or Die" is available for viewing on Crave in Canada (Amazon and Hulu in the rest of the world.).  “The Curse of Willow Song” is now available for viewing worldwide, released jointly by Red Water Entertainment (Canada) and Uncork’d Entertainment (world).

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In 2024, Karen just directed two projects based on her original scripts:  the first is a feature film “Armageddon Road,” a darkly comedic supernatural road trip set in 1970s Las Vegas, with a sly riff on the Biblical Book of Revelation.  The feature was shot almost entirely in the volume wall using miniature cars and sets:  a groundbreaking combination of past 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 2023.  Mrs. Chang’s Perfect Teeth premiered at the DGC Spotlight in November, 2024.  Armageddon Road is in post-production and will be completed in the late summer of 2025.