• Buy THE IMMORTAL DINNER by Penelope Hughes-Hallett
  • Jonathan Kent directs SWEENEY TODD at the Adelphi Theatre
  • Ti Green designs RICHARD III for RSC at Swan Theatre, Stratford
  • Gregory Clarke designs sound for MISTERMAN at the National Theatre
  • Fin Walker choreographs THE TEMPEST at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre
  • Richard Bean's ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS plays the Music Box Theatre, NY
  • CHARLOTTE STREET by Danny Wallace is in bookshops now
  • Naomi Dawson designs KING JOHN for RSC at Swan Theatre, Stratford
  • See BELONG by Bola Agbaje at the Royal Court Upstairs
  • Kate Saxon directs THE REAL THING for English Touring Theatre
  • David Mercatali directs UK Tour of TENDER NAPALM
  • IN THE VAN by Clare Bayley on BBC Radio 4 at 10:45am and 7:45pm
  • Richard Bean's ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS at Theatre Royal Haymarket
  • Lloyd Wood serves as Associate Director on SWEENEY TODD at Adelphi
  • Neil Austin lights EVITA on Broadway

Client details

Zam Salim

Zam Salim

Writer / Director

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Agent
Michelle Archer
Assistant: Charlotte Fleming
cfleming@unitedagents.co.uk
020 3214 0946
About

Zam's lawyer in the US is Douglas R. Stone of Stone, Meyer, Genow, Smelkinson & Binder, LLP

Zam's first feature film, UP THERE, won the top prize (Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema) at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in February 2012. He has won a number of other awards for his work which includes short films, documentaries and television drama. Retrospectives of his films have been held at the Glasgow Film Festival and the Eskisehir Film Festival, Turkey.

Zam was named as one of Screen International's "Stars of Tomorrow" in 2007.

www.zamsalim.co.uk

 
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A GATHERING
(2012)		BBCFour part drama
Producer: Hilary Salmon
Film
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UP THERE
(2012)		Wilder Films / Scottish Screen / UK Film CouncilFeature film.
Producer Annalise Davis.
Starring Burn Gorman, Joe Hartley and Warren Brown.
* Winner of the Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, CA, US, 2012.
* Certificate of Excellence Award at Rincon Festival, 2012
* Screening at the Glasgow Film Festival, 2012
* Screening at the Florida Film Festival, 2012
* Screening at the International Film Festival, Prague, 2012
* Screening at the Dublin Film Festival, 2012
* Screened at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival 2011
Television
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MI:HIGH 2
(2008)		Kudos Productions/ BBC 1Director
* Winner: Best Children’s Drama at the Royal Television Society Awards, 2009
MASHED
(2007)		Teebster Productions/ C4“Three Minute Wonder” Series
Writer/ Director
* Screened at Brief Encounters Festival, 2007
* Eskisehir Film Festival, 2007
IS IT JUST ME....
(2007)		Hopscotch Films/ C4“Three Minute Wonder ” Series
Four 3-minute films
Writer/ Director/ Producer
* Soho Rushes Film Festival, 2007
* Eskisehir Film Festival, 2007
* Brief Encounters Festival, 2007
Documentaries
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BLACK AND WHITE
(2006)		Hopscotch Films/ BBC 230′ documentary on photojournalist, David Gillanders.
*Winner: European Independent Film Festival, Best Short Documentary, 2008
* Winner: Best Short Documentary at The Doxa Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada, 2007
* Highly Commended in Human Rights category at Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Awards, 2007
*Insight Award for Excellence, National Association of Film and Digital Artists, 2007
* Nominated for Best Short Documentary, International Documentary Association, LA 2007
* Shortlisted for Best Newcomer at the Grierson Awards, 2007
* Nominated for Best Arts Documentary at the Celtic Film & TV Festival, 2007
* Screened at The International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, 2007
Short Films
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LAID OFF
(2006)		Short film
Writer/ Director/ Producer
* Winner: Best Film at Jim Poole Awards, 2007
* Winner: Audience Award at Jim Poole Awards, 2007
* Nominated for Best Short Film at Scottish BAFTAs,2006
* Nominated for Best Short Film at The European Independent Film Festival 2007
* Winner, Best Actor at European Independent Film Festival, 2007
* Winner: Best Narrative Short Film at the RiverRun Film festival, North Carolina, USA, 2007
* Winner of Silver Grand Jury Award at the San Francisco Short Film Festival, 2007
* Mecal Barcelona Film Festival, 2006
* Brief Encounters, Bristol, 2006
* Hamburg Film Festival, 2006
* Britspotting, Berlin, 2006
* Edinburgh Film Festival, 2006
* Leuven Film Festival, 2006
* Karachi Film Festival 2006
* BIFF Film Festival Brisbane 2007
* Sao Paulo Film Festival 2007
* IndieFest Film Festival, Chicago, 2007
* SF Short Film Festival, San Francisco, 2007
* Eskisehir Film Festival, Turkey 2007
* Mas Sorrer Film Festival, Barcelona, 2007
* Leith Film Festival, Edinburgh, 2007
* International Short Film Festival Interfilm, Berlin, 2007
BAD BROWN OWL
(2005)		Short film
Writer/ Director
* BBC ONE screening
*Tongues on Fire Short Film finalist 2008
* Clermont-Ferrand, Dundee, Nashville, Atlantic City Film Festival, Seattle Film Festival
ORIGINAL BOB
(2004)		Short film
Writer/ Director
* Best Film, Karachi
* Official Selection Edinburgh Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand
* Kino Film Festival, Leuven
* BBC TWO screening
ROOM FOR THE NIGHT
(2003)		Short film
Producer / editor
* Real to Reel Best Film
* Best Overall Film
* Special Achievement in Editing
* Official Selection Edinburgh Film Festival
* Blue Room Best Film
* Kino Film Festival, Manchester
COLD LIGHT OF DAY
(2002)		Short film
Writer/ Director/ Producer
* Jim Poole Award Film of the Year, Edinburgh
* BAFTA Scottish Best Short nomination
* Official Selection Edinburgh Film Festival
* Blue Room Film of the Year, Edinburgh
* Runner Up Kino Film Festival, Manchester
* Finalist at Channel 4’s 4Talent Funny Bits, 2007
KISSING THE TARMAC
(2001)		Short film
Writer/ Director
* Real to Reel Best Film
* Blue Room Best Film, Edinburgh
* Official Selection Edinburgh Film Festival
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