Kashif Pasta is an award-winning Pakistani-Malawian writer & director raised in Canada and based in Los Angeles in Vancouver.
Brought up on sharp British comedy, high energy American blockbusters, and a rich diet of global cinema, Kashif's films are dramas and comedies with heart, a genre twist and a heavy dose of fun, wonder and purpose.
His short film Desi Standard Time Travel has won awards at dozens of film festivals around the world, and is currently in development as a feature film with support from the National Screen Institute, EAVE and Telefilm Canada.
His latest work, an episode of the anthology series Ramadan America is screening now. Kashif's brand of grounded, heartfelt storytelling has resonated with audiences worldwide.
He served as director and showrunner for all episodes of the hit TELUS episodic series "Welcome to Surrey", a South Asian-led comedy that earned over a million viewers and a number of best webseries awards around the world.
As a writer, Kashif has contributed to TV writing rooms for Paul Feig’s Powderkeg, WarnerMedia, and CTV/Bell Media. He was an ABC Television Comedy Lab fellow for his pilot "Long Distance", and is currently developing a comedy-mystery series with Omnifilm.
As a producer, Kashif's work has spanned commercials, narrative, and music videos, the latest of which - "Meet You at the Light" - won the Grand Jury and Audience Awards at SXSW 2022.
Kashif is the co-founder of Dunya Media, a production company that empowers artists of color to tell stories with purpose. Dunya is one of Canada's leading BIPOC-owned production companies, producing national commercials, award-winning short films and live events like the Peabody award-winning HOMECOMING KING with Hasan Minhaj.
Kashif is a member of the Director's Guild of Canada.
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