Reem Morsi

Reem Morsi, an Egyptian/Canadian Filmmaker, 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. Several of her short film scripts were named finalists of the Robert Bosch Foundation Film Prize, 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. She recently won the Telefilm Canada New Voices Award at the Toronto Screenwriters Conference in 2017. Morsi is a recipient of The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's inaugural Apprenticeship Program for Female Directors, through which she is currently shadowing the director of THE HANDMAID'S TALE. She has also been chosen as a participant of Women in View's 2xMore 2017 Director's Lab, where she will get the opportunity to shadow on and direct an episode of Sinking Ship Entertainment's series DINO DANA.