Karen Harnisch

Biography

Named one of Most Influential Women in International Film by The Hollywood Reporter, Karen is an acclaimed creative producer, line producer and production executive on over a dozen feature films and series. Select credits include Shook, Infinity Pool, White Lie, Fail to Appear, M/M and Sleeping Giant. Karen has led physical production on studio and streamer-backed works including feature films Firestarter (Blumhouse/Universal) and Kiss of Death (Blumhouse), and TV series Slip (Boat Rocker/Roku) and Essex County (CBC/ITV). Karen is a leading expert on international co-production and co-ventures. She is an alumna of TIFF Studio, the EAVE Producers Workshop and The Torino Film Lab, and is a faculty member at Toronto Metropolitan University's School of Image Arts, where she teaches creative producing and film production.