Karen Walton

Writing

Karen Walton

Karen Walton is a Canadian writer and executive producer for film and television, best known for her script of the indie horror movie "Ginger Snaps". She's a graduate of the Film & Television Writing program at the Canadian Film Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Known For

Ginger SnapsGinger Snaps · 2000
Ginger Snaps
6.92000
MovieHorrorFantasy
The story of two outcast sisters, Ginger and Brigitte, in the mindless suburban town of Bailey Downs. On the night of Ginger's first period, she is savagely attacked by a wild creature. Ginger's wounds miraculously heal but something is not quite right. Now Brigitte must save her sister and save herself.
Ginger Snaps 2: UnleashedGinger Snaps 2: Unleashed · 2004
Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed
6.42004
MovieHorrorFantasy
Brigitte has escaped the confines of Bailey Downs but she's not alone. Another werewolf is tailing her closely and her sister's specter haunts her. An overdose of Monkshood - the poison that is keeping her transformation at bay - leads to her being incarcerated in a rehabilitation clinic for drug addicts where her only friend is an eccentric young girl by the name of Ghost.
BeansBeans · 2021
Beans
6.32021
MovieDrama
Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and reckless adolescence; forced to grow up fast and become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Oka Crisis, the turbulent Indigenous uprising that tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990.
The Other HalfThe Other Half · 2016
The Other Half
6.12016
MovieDramaRomance
A grief-stricken man and a bipolar woman fall in love and attempt to forge a simple life together.
The Human KazooThe Human Kazoo · 2004
The Human Kazoo
9.02004
Movie
An ailing writer executes his dying wish: to reconcile his wildly personal take on his lifelong war with his action-movie star brother. A raucously surreal tragi-comedy.
ElevatedElevated · 1996
Elevated
6.31996
MovieHorrorMystery
Ben and Ellen use the elevator in their building when all of a sudden, Hank, the blood covered security man of the building rushes into the elevator, claiming that there is a dangerous alien-like creature in the building.
Heart: The Marilyn Bell StoryHeart: The Marilyn Bell Story · 2001
Heart: The Marilyn Bell Story
5.52001
MovieAdventureTV Movie
This made-for-TV bio-pic is about Marilyn Bell, a Canadian teenager who, in 1954, was the first person to swim across Lake Ontario. She won the Toronto Canadian National Exhibition prize after Florence Chadwick, a then-famous American swimmer who was widely expected to win, dropped out in the middle of the race. Half of this heart-warming movie is devoted to the 21 hour swim in which the 16-year old Bell is exhorted by her pushy coach Gus Ryder not to give up.
The Many Trials of One Jane DoeThe Many Trials of One Jane Doe · 2002
The Many Trials of One Jane Doe
8.02002
MovieDramaTV Movie
Based on a true story about an extraordianry woman, who after a traumatizing rape, refuses to remain a victim. Wendy Crewson stars as Jane Doe (as she must legally be called), a woman who discovers she was the fifth victim of a serial rapist terrorizing a two-block area surrounding her home. When she learns that the police department was aware of this dangerous criminal yet decided not to issue a public warning, she feels that she and all the women in the neighbourhood were offered up as bait. Driven to take action, she investigates not only her own case, but also police procedures with regard to rape and its victims, and is shocked by what she discovers: a legal system that is sexist and uncaring. It is then that she decides to take on the Toronto Police Department. What follows for Jane Doe is a grueling 10-year legal battle, which becomes vicious, all-consuming and personal.

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The Many Trials of One Jane DoeThe Many Trials of One Jane Doe · 2002
The Many Trials of One Jane Doe
8.02002
MovieDramaTV Movie
Based on a true story about an extraordianry woman, who after a traumatizing rape, refuses to remain a victim. Wendy Crewson stars as Jane Doe (as she must legally be called), a woman who discovers she was the fifth victim of a serial rapist terrorizing a two-block area surrounding her home. When she learns that the police department was aware of this dangerous criminal yet decided not to issue a public warning, she feels that she and all the women in the neighbourhood were offered up as bait. Driven to take action, she investigates not only her own case, but also police procedures with regard to rape and its victims, and is shocked by what she discovers: a legal system that is sexist and uncaring. It is then that she decides to take on the Toronto Police Department. What follows for Jane Doe is a grueling 10-year legal battle, which becomes vicious, all-consuming and personal.

Writer

The Eleventh HourThe Eleventh Hour · 2002
The Eleventh Hour
5.32002
SeriesDrama
The Eleventh Hour is a Canadian television drama series which aired weekly on CTV from 2002 to 2005. The show revolves around the reporters and producers at a fictional television newsmagazine series, The Eleventh Hour. Unhappy with the newsmagazine's shrinking audience, the network has brought in a new executive producer, Kennedy Marsh, to reorient the show in a more ratings-driven tabloid journalism direction. The tension between the ratings imperative and the more traditional journalistic ethics of the show's senior staff is the primary conflict that drives the show, but storylines also include the team's efforts to get the stories that will make it to air each week. The Eleventh Hour was produced by Alliance Atlantis, Canada's largest film and television production house. It aired in the U.S. on Sleuth, under the title Bury the Lead, to distinguish it from a CBS series with a similar name.

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