Direction: Kashif Pasta

Kashif Pasta is an award-winning director, writer, and producer using film and storytelling to tell character-driven stories centered on South Asian and Muslims with a sense of joy and wonder. Kashif co-created and directed the hit digital series “Welcome to Surrey”, co-created the “Untitled BTR Project” with Sameer Gardezi for Paul Feig’s Powderkeg, and was an MPAC-ABC Television Comedy Lab fellow for his pilot “Long Distance”. He is the co-founder of Dunya Media, a production company that empowers filmmakers of colour to tell stories with joy, wonder, and purpose, where he recently won the 2022 SXSW Grand Jury Prize and Audience Awards - Music Video for producing Desirée Dawson's "Meet You at the Light". Kashif recently directed a South Asian sci-fi drama short, DESI STANDARD TIME TRAVEL, and is going to camera on his directorial debut feature, PRESENCE, later this year.