Profile Details
- Country: Canada
- Province/State: Ontario
- City: Toronto
- How do you Identify?: South Asian - Canadian
- Age: 41
- Experience Level: Mid-Career
- Field of Work: Fiction/Scripted, Narrative Film, Documentary, Commercials, and Music Videos
- Union: Non-Union
- Interested In: Directing TV For Hire, Directing Film/Digital for Hire, Directing Music Videos/Commercials, and Developing my own Film/TV/Digital Material
- Authorized to work in the USA?: No
- Contact Information: danyalrasheed@hotmail.com
- Link: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4285930/
- Link 2: https://vimeo.com/danyalrasheed
- Link 3: https://www.youtube.com/c/DhaaraFilms
Bio
I’m a filmmaker who operates between Toronto and Pakistan. His important film projects include: A Walnut Tree (2015), Mela Chiragan: A Few Rhymes (2018) and Hatak (2020). Hatak is a short fiction narrative based on a short story by the seminal Urdu writer Saadat Hassan Manto. The film screened at various international film festivals including IFFSA Toronto 2021 and DCSAFF 2022. The feature length documentary, A Walnut Tree, takes us into the heart of the internally displaced persons’ camps of the war ridden FATA region in Pakistan, exploring themes of justice, trauma and desperation. A Walnut Tree showcased at IDFA in 2015 & HotDocs 2016. Mela Chiragan: A Few Rhymes delves into the timeless forms of devotional rituals, particularly as experienced during the annual mela held at the shrine of Sufi saint, Shah Hussain in Lahore, Pakistan. The film was screened at Open Doors Locarno Film Festival and Freiburger Film Forum 2021.