The people
behind the films.

Karen has worked full-time in the film and television industry since 2000. Starting her career as a producer and entertainment lawyer, she was one of the architects of the British Columbia tax credit program before being recruited by PwC to assist with creating tax shelters for U.S. studio clients.

Since leaving film finance, Karen has written and directed ten short horror films, three music videos, the web series Mythos (2015) for TELUS, two seasons of the true crime series Very Bad Men for Discovery+, and five feature-length films. Her features include Stained (2010), Evangeline (2013) and The Curse of Willow Song (2020), which premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival. The film won Best British Columbia Feature Film, and Karen received a Best Director award at the 2021 Leo Awards.

Karen has also written television scripts for SYFY and Netflix, contributing to the premiere seasons of Van Helsing and Ghost Wars and helping create characters for each series. In 2021, she directed the seventh instalment in the Bring It On franchise, the Halloween horror special Bring It On: Cheer or Die (2022). It premiered on SYFY and is available on Crave in Canada and Amazon and Hulu internationally. The Curse of Willow Song is available worldwide through Red Water Entertainment in Canada and Uncork’d Entertainment internationally.

In 2024, Karen directed two projects based on her original scripts. Armageddon Road is a darkly comedic supernatural road trip set in 1970s Las Vegas, with a sly riff on the Biblical Book of Revelation. Her tenth short horror film, Mrs. Chang’s Perfect Teeth, won the Directors Guild of Canada BC Established Director Greenlight Award in late 2023. Both films began festival screenings in fall 2025, with international distribution planned for spring 2026.

Specializing in both scripted and unscripted production, award-winning filmmaker Kate Kroll is passionate about impactful storytelling and breathtaking visuals.

Kate is the recipient of the Canadian Media Producers Association’s Kevin Tierney Emerging Producer Award for her work on the dramatic comedy Portraits from a Fire (Crave/Photon Films), which had a theatrical release on 33 screens across Canada. Her notable work includes the CTV reality dating series Farming for Love; the CBC Gem series Future Futures; the critically acclaimed documentary No Fun City (Super Channel); the documentary Path of Pilgrims (Vision TV); the Prism Prize-nominated Tanya Tagaq music video Retribution; and the experimental docudrama Rangwang.

Kate has received awards, grants and mentorships from the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, Women in the Director’s Chair, the Directors Guild of Canada, Women in Film and Television Vancouver, the Canada Council for the Arts, the National Film Board of Canada and BravoFACT.

Her work has screened at TIFF, VIFF, imagineNATIVE and DOXA, and has been broadcast on Crave, CBC, Super Channel, Knowledge Network, Vision TV, APTN and Air Canada. She holds a certificate in Entertainment Law from York University’s Osgoode Hall, is an accomplished professional wrestler and is president of the boutique production company Black Moon Media.