Ravi Steve - Director/Writer

Ravi Steve Khajuria is a Writer and Director based in Toronto, Canada. His career has been highlighted by nominations for awards from the Writers Guild of Canada, the Directors Guild of Canada, the Youth Media Alliance, and Banff World Television.

​

Ravi’s short form series, I WILL BURY YOU, recently completed its second season with support from CMF and Ontario Creates. His writing for this series won him a Writers Guild of Canada Award (2024), and his directing won the award for “Best Directing International Series” at Cusco WebFest (2024). The project also won “Best In Fest” at Miami Web Fest (2024).

​

His latest film, THE PROS AND CONS OF KILLING YOUSELF, won Best Comedy at the BIFA Qualifying Beeston Film Festival (2024), was nominated for Best Canadian Short at Vancouver Short Film Festival (2024) and was a finalist in competition at the prestigious USA Film Festival.

​

This past year, Ravi worked as a writer and story editor on RUBY AND THE WELL, a one-hour family drama airing on Family Channel in Canada and BYUTV in the US. This same year, one of his episodes for the animated series 16 HUDSON earned a nomination for an Award of Excellence for Best Program from the Youth Media Alliance.

​

Ravi's previous short, CONSENT AGREEMENT, was nomination for Best Short Film at Hamilton Film Festival (2020). It had its broadcast Premiere on CBC in March 2022 and is now streaming on GEM.

​

In 2022, Ravi wrote for Sesame Workshop and LEGO’s Play-to-Learn initiative, creating cartoons featuring Cookie Monster, Elmo, and other Sesame Street favourites.  That same year, he wrote ten episodes for Big Bad Boo Studios’ new animated series JUDGE JODHI, where he also served as series story editor.

​

In 2019 Ravi worked on Kim’s Convenience as part of their emerging writers’ room and was happy to shadow one of the series' directors for two episodes. 

In 2018 his feature film script INVINCIBLE-ish became a Top 10 finalist in FINAL DRAFT’S BIG BREAK SCREENPLAY COMPETITION and is now in Development with support from Telefilm.

​

His film TRAINING WHEELS, which he wrote and directed, was nominated for a Directors Guild of Canada Award (2012). That same year Ravi directed his first episode of TV with YTV’s tween comedy HOW TO BE INDIE. 

​

In 2010/11 Ravi wrote and directed REMIX-TO-RIO, a multi-award winning one-hour documentary that followed Toronto’s REMIX Project to Brazil. The film was produced in partnership with The Canadian International Development Agency.

​

In 2006 Ravi’s script for YTV’s PRANK PATROL was nominated for a Banff World Television Award and also helped earn the series a Gemini Award nomination.

Ravi has a BFA from York University and is a former resident of The Canadian Film Centre’s Directors’ Lab, The National Screen Institute’s Script-to-Screen Program, and Reelworld’s Hollywood Connector Program.

​

He is a proud member of DGC, WGC, and ACTRA