- Rua Wani is a film and TV producer, and former development and production exec on acclaimed primetime scripted dramas and comedies commissioned by BBC America, CBC, and CTV Sci-Fi, and sold internationally to streamers and broadcasters including Netflix, Prime Video, Apple TV+, and Channel 4.
Rua is the co-founder of Adani Pictures, a Toronto-based media production company with a mandate to back storytellers and projects that provoke curiosity and engagement, centered in a belief that everyone's story deserves to be seen. Adani's features and series development slate is supported by the Canada Media Fund, Ontario Creates, and the Bell Fund. The company has been selected to the International Co-Production Market at EFM, the Canada-France Co-Production Lab at Series Mania, the Canadian Creative Accelerator for Women in Film in New York and LA, and the Canada Film Centre's Fifth Wave Labs.
Rua is a Top 25 Producer in the 2024 Netflix-Banff Diversity of Voices program, and an alumnus of producer labs at EAVE, Series Mania, Reelworld, Banff Spark, and CFC Fifth Wave. She is the founder of a scholarship for Muslim filmmakers, and the co-producer of the Trans Filmmakers Summit at TIFF 2023.
Rua is also a Lecturer in the film and TV programs at Toronto Metropolitan University and George Brown College.- IMDb Mini Biography By: XYZ
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