Sumathy Balaram
Sumathy Balaram is a Sri Lankan-Canadian filmmaker and actress.[1] She is most noted for her 2015 feature film Niyoga,[1] and her performance in the 2025 short film Karupy.[2]
Born and raised in Jaffna, she emigrated to Canada in 1989.[1] She has also directed a number of short films, and was a founder of Uyirppu Progressive Tamil Women Artistic Organization, a theatre company that produces and stages plays about Tamil women.
For Karupy, she won the award for Outstanding Performer in a Canadian Short Film at the 2025 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival,[3] and received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Performance in a Live Action Short Drama at the 14th Canadian Screen Awards in 2026.[4]
Filmography
[edit]- Mannamuzh (2001)
- Inni (2002)
- Uashh (2003)
- Manushi (2004)
- You2 (2005)
- To Be Continued (2006)
- Pillai (2007)
- Niyoga (2015)
Actress
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Roshne Balasubramanian, "Filmmaker Sumathy Balaram’s Niyoga on Sri Lanka Civil War". The New Indian Express, August 16, 2017.
- ↑ C.J. Prince, "10 Must-See Short Films at TIFF 2025". The Film Stage, September 2, 2025.
- ↑ Andrew Tracy, "Montreal, My Beautiful wins best Canadian film prize at Reel Asian". Playback, November 6, 2025.
- ↑ "The 14th Canadian Screen Awards Nominations (2026)". The Canadian Film Reviewer, March 26, 2026.
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[edit]Categories:
- 21st-century Canadian actresses
- 21st-century Canadian screenwriters
- 21st-century Canadian short story writers
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- Canadian film actresses
- Canadian women film directors
- Canadian women short story writers
- Canadian women screenwriters
- Sri Lankan emigrants to Canada
- Asian-Canadian filmmakers
- Canadian writers of Asian descent
- Living people