Premika Leo
- Actress
- Producer
- Director
Premika Leo is a multi-disciplinary artist originally from Malvern, Ontario. Since childhood she has trained extensively in dance, cirque, martial arts and music due to her family's involvement in Indo-Caribbean performing arts, and its preservation.
After her break out role as Cal in season two of Couple-ish (2018), Premika began to work in film and television, expanding into writing and directing. This includes the historical narrative of Indo-Caribbean women facing domestic violence in GYAL (2022), which was her directorial debut, and the experimental film she wrote, Sugar Free (2022) where Leo plays a drug addicted Canadian-Caribbean battling gender dysphoria. Both films aired at their own respective events internationally, but for her dedication to radical queer writing and Caribbean focused media production, her films were featured at The Cinema Museum in London, UK by the BlackBoyJoyClub.
Since then, Leo has gone on to create short films abroad. During the pandemic she directed two shorts for NYC Pride week with Caribbean Equality Project, and "Forgotten" (2023) which aired in Taiwan. Leo ended up spotlighted in the book Queer In The Light (Queer in Het Licht) in The Netherlands for her contributions to Queer performance and media.
After her break out role as Cal in season two of Couple-ish (2018), Premika began to work in film and television, expanding into writing and directing. This includes the historical narrative of Indo-Caribbean women facing domestic violence in GYAL (2022), which was her directorial debut, and the experimental film she wrote, Sugar Free (2022) where Leo plays a drug addicted Canadian-Caribbean battling gender dysphoria. Both films aired at their own respective events internationally, but for her dedication to radical queer writing and Caribbean focused media production, her films were featured at The Cinema Museum in London, UK by the BlackBoyJoyClub.
Since then, Leo has gone on to create short films abroad. During the pandemic she directed two shorts for NYC Pride week with Caribbean Equality Project, and "Forgotten" (2023) which aired in Taiwan. Leo ended up spotlighted in the book Queer In The Light (Queer in Het Licht) in The Netherlands for her contributions to Queer performance and media.
