Lenin M. Sivam is a Canadian filmmaker known for his Tamil and English-language films.

Born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, he moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1991, when he was 17.^[1] "His father V.M.L. Sivam was a filmmaker too, assistant director in one of Sri Lanka's first Tamil-language films, then (under the screen name Jeyakanth) playing the male lead in another, Meenavapenn."^[2]

His first short, A Few Good People, won the Best Short Film of the Year Award from the Independent Art Film Society in 2006.^[3]

After several years of making short films, Sivam first achieved international recognition with his feature film debut 1999 in 2009, which won several awards.

Sivam then directed A Gun & a Ring (2013), which was well received both critically and commercially and made its world premiere at the Shanghai International Film Festival in June 2013; it was shortlisted for the Golden Goblet Award.

Sivam's next film, Roobha (2018),^[4][5] was well-received in various film festivals,^[6] including Goa, Cambridge and Montreal.^[7]

He also directed The Protector, a thriller, screened at various festivals.^{[8][9][10][11]}

• Lenin M. Sivam’s first Tamil full-feature film 1999 has been selected for VIFF (canadianimmigrant.ca)
• Lenin M. Sivam at IMDb