Episode 142: Kashif Pasta

What impact is the pandemic having on Vancouver’s indie film scene, and specifically on the ability for our fearless filmmakers to share their stories? What have we lost, and what, if anything, have we gained? What does the future hold for the indie scene? In this special episode of the YVR Screen Scene Podcast, Sabrina brings these big questions to indie filmmaker Kashif Pasta. Kashif is an award-winning writer, director, and producer with a focus on empowering people of colour to tell stories with purpose and joy. He co-created and directed the hit digital series Welcome to Surrey for TELUS and Dunya Media, co-created the Untitled BTR Project with Sameer Gardezi for Paul Feig’s Powderkeg, and was a 2018 ABC Television Comedy Lab fellow for his half-hour pilot Long Distance. Kashif and Sabrina discuss the health of the Vancouver indie scene (and whether the massive strides made by Toronto’s music scene in the last decade could happen for Vancouver film), as well as how 2020 changed the game for BIPOC creators. Episode sponsor: Fish Flight Entertainment