Reem Morsi
Ontario
Reem Morsi is an award-winning Egyptian-Canadian writer, director and producer based between Toronto and Cairo. Working across film and television, her work spans comedy, thriller and socially driven drama. Before becoming a filmmaker, she worked as a professional scuba diver and spent over a decade as a human rights officer with the United Nations and other international organizations, specializing in the protection of women and children in conflict and post-conflict environments.
SELECTED FILM CREDITS
- Banned (2025) — Writer, Director, Producer. Shortlisted for the Sundance Film Festival. Supported by Telefilm Canada’s Talent to Watch programme, the CFC/Netflix Accelerator and the Canada Council for the Arts.
- The Last Mark (2021) — Director. TIFF Selects.
- Queen Tut (2023) — Director. Starring Alexandra Billings (Transparent). Streamed on Crave.
SELECTED TELEVISION CREDITS
- Virgins! (CBC Gem) — Director of two episodes, including the season finale.
- My Perfect Landing (Family Channel/Netflix) — Writer and Director.
- Dino Dana (TVOKids/Amazon Prime) — Director.
- Fishheads — Director.
- Leo’s Pollinators — Director.
Additional experience includes television writers’ rooms in Canada and internationally.
RECENT INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION & DEVELOPMENT (2024–2026)
- 2026 — TIFF Writers’ Lab: Selected with Agnoia and awarded the 2026 Sloan Science Fellowship.
- 2026 — Series Mania Forum: Presented Humanitarians! at the African Series Pitch in Lille, France.
- 2025–2026 — AuthenticA Series Lab: Selected as one of four African screenwriters for the Realness Institute programme, supported by the Canada Media Fund.
- 2026 — Sundance Institute Development Program: No Condolences for Children shortlisted.
- TorinoFilmLab TFL Next Feature Film: Bury Me selected.
- EAVE Arab Producers Lab: Bury Me selected.
- Hollywood Arab Film Festival: Bury Me selected as one of the screenplay award winners.
- 2024 — TorinoFilmLab ComedyLab: Developed Bootleg.
- Sundance Institute/TikTok Micro-Series Storytelling Programme: Participant.
SCREENWRITING AWARDS & INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS
- SFFILM Rainin Grant (2016) — Bootleg.
- Telefilm Canada New Voices Award (2017) — Bootleg.
- Realness Pan-African Screenwriters’ Residency (2018) — Bootleg.
- Berlinale Talents Script Station (2018) — Bootleg.
- Nipkow Programme Fellowship (2018) — Berlin.
- La Fabrique Cinéma, Festival de Cannes — Bootleg.
- Women in Film and Television Vancouver Canadian National Genre Competition — Winner for the television concept Fish.
AWARD-WINNING SHORT FILMS
- Their Feast (2012) — Official selection, Toronto International Film Festival.
- Nostalgia (2015) — Writer/Director.
- The Door (2017) — Best Drama, Yorkton Film Festival; Audience Choice and Best Screenplay, WIFT Showcase (2018).
- Show & Tell (2017) — Three Golden Sheaf Awards at Yorkton, including Best Director, Best Short Subject and Best Emerging Director; winner of the WIFT/BravoFACT pitch competition.
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMES
- Berlinale Talents (2012, 2018)
- TIFF Talent Lab (2016)
- Canadian Film Centre — Directors’ Lab
- Women in the Director’s Chair
- Women in View — 2xMore
- Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television — Directing Apprenticeship (The Handmaid’s Tale)
- Directing shadowing — Kim’s Convenience
- WarnerMedia — Directing and Mid-Level Television Writing Programmes
Morsi continues to develop original feature films and scripted television projects across Canada, Egypt and international markets.
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