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009 - Bilal Sami

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Bilal Sami is a Pakistani born filmmaker and screenwriter. Over a career spanning eighteen years he has produced, directed and written commercials, television shows, films, shorts, documentaries and has penned lyrics. Bilal was a Fulbright scholar to the U.S. at Ohio University for his MFA in Film. From 2010 to 2012 he worked for Partisan Pictures (NYC) on content produced for NatGeo, Discovery and the History Channel. In 2013 he collaborated with the acclaimed Pakistani musician and producer Mekaal Hasan on a short documentary series titled 'Dhun'. The documentary was featured at the Alchemy Festival at the Southbank Centre, London in 2016. From 2013 to 2016 Bilal also taught filmmaking at the School of Television, Film & Theatre at Beaconhouse National University, heading the department in his last year there. 'Dobara Phir Se' Bilal's first commercial Pakistani feature film which he wrote and helped produce for the acclaimed director Mehreen Jabbar was released worldwide in November 2016 to critical a