Reem Morsi's Biography

Reem Morsi had careers in professional scuba diving and in human rights, before becoming a writer/director. Morsi’s film credits include THEIR FEAST (2012 - Cannes Short Film Corner, TIFF, BBC, Cine Sud), NOSTALGIA (2015 - WIFT), among others. Her short film scripts LIPSTICK (2013), CHECK POINT (2014) and MANGO (2015) were all named finalists of the Film Prize of the Robert Bosch Foundation for International Cooperation, an affiliate of the Berlin Film Festival. In March 2016, Morsi received a scriptwriting grant from the San Francisco Film Society for her feature film BOOTLEG. Subsequently, her short film based on this feature screened at a number of international film festivals, and was awarded the best Canadian short at the London Worldwide Comedy Festival. Other shorts of Morsi’s include THE DOOR (2016), which screened at Whistler Film Festival and won Best Drama at the 2017 Yorkton Film Festival, and SHOW & TELL (2016), which won first place at the WIFT/BravoFact pitch competition and screened at the 2017 Yorkton Film Festival, where it won Golden Sheaf Awards for Best Director, Best Short Subject and Best Emerging Director. Morsi has participated in the Berlinale Talent Campus in 2012, the Canadian Film Centre’s Directors’ Lab in 2015, the TIFF Talent Lab in 2016 and the Women in the Director’s Chair in 2014/2015, and recently won the Telefilm Canada New Voices Award at the Toronto Screenwriters Conference in 2017..

About Reem Morsi
I am: Reem Morsi
a film: Director & Writer
Country: Canada
Lives in: Toronto
Birthdate: 18-6-1975
Email: reem.morsi@gmail.com
Phone Number : 16472175336
Address : Unit 4 at 189 Baldwin street

Awards & Achievements:

Filmography:

Telefilm Canada New Voices Award/Toronto Screenwriting Conference April 2017
TIFF TALENT LAB writer/director participant at Toronto Film Festival Talent Lab Sept 2016
Writer/Director “Bootleg” Feature project/AWARDED Development Funding/San Francisco Film Society
(Expected RT: 90:00) Currently at script writing stage March 2016-Currently in development
Writer/Director “Show & Tell” Winner 1st Place, BravoFact/WIFT-T Pitch (RT: 10:00) March-July 2016
Writer/Director “The Door”, Canadian Film Centre Short Dramatic Film (RT: 18:00) May 2016
Writer/Director “Show & Tell” FINALIST, MPPIA Award/Whistler Film Festival December 2015
Canadian Film Center (Director’s Lab) 2015
Participant at Women in the Director’s Chair/Career Advancement Module March-June 2015
Participant at Women in the Director’s Chair/Story Incubation Module Nov 2014-Jan 2015
(Vancouver, Whistler, Banff)
The National Film Board Financial Assistance Program for June 2014-Feb 2015
Emerging Filmmakers (FAP) Winner for my script “Confined”
BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, ROBERT BOSCH STIFTUNG
Writer/Director Award nominee/finalist for “LIPS” AKA “Bootleg” & “Checkpoint” Feb 2013 & Feb 2014
& “Mango” Nov 2015
Berlinale Talent Campus, Berlin International Film Festival (Germany) Feb 2012
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Producer/Director/Script Writer, ‘Their Feast’, short film (Cairo, Egypt) (RT: 21:00) April 2011
BBC Aan Korb Film & Documentary Film Festival, ‘Their Feast’ London, UK Nov 2014
Toronto International Film Festival, ‘Their Feast’, Short Cuts Competition (Toronto) Sept 2012
Cannes International Film Festival, ‘Their Feast’, Short Film Corner (France) May 2012
BBC alternative cinema 2013
Florence Film Festival 2013 & Cinesud Film Festival 2014
National Film Board:
Film Researcher for a Documentary Film July/Aug 2014
Production Intern on an APP & a Documentary Dec 2013/Jan 2014
Global Sorority Campaign on Gender Equality, Director ON GOING since Dec 2012
BC Council for International Cooperation, Gender Equality & Equity,
Editor, Director, Cinematographer Sept/Oct 2013
Outreach Coordinator 2010/2011
Projecting Change Film Festival: Outreach Events & Community Networking, Vancouver, Canada
BC Nurses’ Union, “Awareness videos on Nurse Addiction in BC”,
Cinematographer, Director Oct/Dec 2012
Producer/Writer/Filmmaker, Anti-Trafficking in Egypt, IOM (Egypt) Feb-March 2012
Consultant/Filmmaker, Combating Violence Against Women & Children, USAID 2011- 2012
Designer Challenge, Malibu Productions, Writer/Director (Vancouver) Aug 2012
Producer/Writer/Filmmaker, Anti-Trafficking in Egypt, IOM (Egypt) (RT: 15:00) Feb-March 2012
Producer/Consultant/Filmmaker, Combating Violence Against Women & Children, USAID (RT:15) 2011- 2012
Cast Member, ‘Us & Them’, Headlines Theatre (Vancouver) Sept/Nov 2011
Director/Writer/Producer, ‘Birth’, short film. Winner at Gene Screen Competition (Vancouver) August 2011
(RT: 07:00)
Director/Producer/Creator, ‘Visa’, short independent film (UK) (RT: 30:00) Feb 2011
Director/Videographer: Vlog for MLA Sam Sullivan & The Future Gate Company Summer 2014
Fixer/local Producer/German Crew, “City of Sound”, Cairo, Egypt Summer 2013
Production Manager, “Asphalt” Feature Documentary Summer 2013
Writer, Director, Cinematographer, ‘Nostalgia’ (RT: 10:00) 2015
Women in Film Festival/Vancouver March 2015
Other Film Crew Experience:
Script Supervisor, ‘Before I sleep’, Feature Film (Vancouver, BC) April 2014
Script Supervisor, ‘Curious Case of the Missing Condom’, (Vancouver, BC) April 2010
Script Supervisor, ‘I’m in the mood for love’, (Vancouver, BC) Feb 2010
Producer, ‘The Crack’, short film, London Film School (London, UK) Sept/Nov 2010
Editor & Gaffer, ‘If you have no place to cry’, the London Film School (London, UK) June/July 2010
Director, ‘Dishonor’, documentary on forced marriage in the UK (London, UK) Fall-Spring 2009
Director/Script writer/Editor, ‘My super-heroine’, London Film School (London, UK) Fall-Spring 2009
Camera Operator, ‘Reflections’ and ‘A Bite to Remember’ (London, UK) Fall-Spring 2009
Director/Editor/Cinematographer/Producer, ‘Tattoo’, Lebanese/Syrian Border Fall-Spring 2008
Camera Operator, ‘Reflections’ and ‘A Bite to Remember’ (London, UK) Fall-Spring 2009

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