Kashif Pasta
British Columbia
Winner of the 2025 DGC Greenlight award, Kashif Pasta is a Vancouver and Los Angeles-based director and editor with award-winning work on Apple TV, Prime Video, and more.
Kashif's playful, character-driven, genre-bending sci-fi films are filled with a sense of wonder, fun, and purpose.
His time-travel dramedy "Desi Standard Time Travel" won awards at San Diego International Film Festival, Tallgrass, and more, with a feature adaptation now in development with Telefilm and the NSI - EAVE BIPOC Producer's Program.
His DGC Greenlight film, "The Muslim Guide to Prayer in Space", premieres at festivals in 2026 starting with a fireside chat on his approach to virtual production at SXSW.
In the episodic world, Kashif directed the finale of SeriesFest award-winning "Ramadan America," the first Ramadan-themed feature in English.
On television, Kashif has written in development rooms for Paul Feig’s Powderkeg, WarnerMedia, Bell Media, and CBC. He was an ABC Comedy Lab fellow for his pilot "Long Distance", and served as director and showrunner for all five episodes of the hit TELUS series "Welcome to Surrey", a South Asian-led comedy earning over a million viewers and a number of best webseries awards around the world.
He recently edited the comedy feature "Adulting" for Lionsgate and Buzzfeed Studios, and has brought his post production expertise to films for Netflix.
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Awards
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Desi Standard Time Travel
Link: IMDB
Roles: Director, Writer
Type: Short
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Comedy, Family
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Welcome to Surrey
Episodes: 101,102,103,104,105
Link: IMDB
Roles: Director, Writer, Co-Creator
Studio / Network: Telus
Type: Digital Series
Genre: Romance, Comedy
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Novo Nordisk - Desi vs. Diabetes
Role: Director
Type: Commercial
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