Karim Hussain is a Canadian screenwriter, director and cinematographer. He is best known for his 2000 film Subconscious Cruelty,[1] and as co-writer of Nacho Cerda's The Abandoned.[2] In 2006, he adapted French-Canadian writer Marie-Claire Blais' work, La Belle Bête. For it he won the Director's Award at the Boston Underground Film Festival. [3]