Directing Dramatic Film

Geared towards new directors, this innovative, fast-paced workshop covers script breakdown, shot lists, pre-production, locations, camera placement, post-production, and working with a crew and a producer.

Instructor: Meelad Moaphi

Toronto filmmaker and screenwriter Meelad Moaphi is a BFA (‘10) and MFA (‘19) graduate of York University’s Film Production program. His works have screened locally and abroad, including at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and Montreal World Film Festival. Moaphi’s unique international upbringing has informed his culturally diverse body of work, which range in pieces in English, Farsi, to even Spanish and Japanese. Worth – his latest short, filmed entirely in Pakistan with Urdu dialogue – was distilled from his feature screenplay.