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Creating Karma

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Creating Karma is a 2009 American screwball comedy[1] film directed by Jill Wisoff[2] about an uptight, New York fashion editor who becomes a poet after losing her job, moving in with her eccentric new-age therapist sister, and meeting Mr. Wrong, owner of a local poets' café.[3]

Independently produced, the film kicked off its film festival run at the 2006 Coney Island Film Festival,[4] garnered a Best Feature Comedy win in Los Angeles at the 2008 Broad Humor Film Festival,[5] screened in New Orleans at the 2008 TOMI film festival[6] and in Notting Hill, London as an official selection of the 2008 Portobello Film Festival.[7] It had its U.S. theatrical premiere on October 16, 2009[8] in Los Angeles.[9]

The original screenplay was co-written by Jill Wisoff and Carol Lee Sirugo, co-produced by David Wright, and stars Karen Lynn Gorney, Carol Lee Sirugo, Jill Wisoff, Joe Grifasi, Rahad Coulter-Stevenson, Roland Sands, Jeremy Ebenstein, Jennifer Lee Mitchell and Riana Hershenfeld; with musical score by Joel Diamond, cinematography by Carter Bissell, production design by Kathleen Muldoon and costumes by Nina Simich.[10]

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