Rua Wani

Rua Wani is a producer and co-founder of Adani Pictures, a Toronto-based media production company. Adani’s mandate is to back storytellers and projects that provoke curiosity and engagement, centred in a belief that everyone’s story deserves to be seen. Adani’s slate of projects has won development financing from the Canada Media Fund, Ontario Creates, and the Bell Fund, and the company has been selected to the International Co-Production Market at EFM, the Canadian Creative Accelerator for Women in Film in New York and LA, the Canada-France Co-Production Lab at Series Mania, and CFC’s Fifth Wave Labs. Previously, Rua was a scripted TV development and production exec at Boat Rocker Media, where she worked on celebrated primetime dramas and comedies, including the Emmy-winning Orphan Black (BBC America, CTV Sci-Fi Channel). Rua is an alumnus of producer labs at Series Mania, EAVE, Reelworld, and BANFF Spark. She is also a film festival juror, speaker, and film and TV professor at Sheridan and George Brown Colleges. As a Kashmiri who has lived in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Indonesia, Canada, and the UK, Rua’s love of storytelling is rooted in discovering diverse realities.