#37 Waris Islam: Writer/Director

2025-02-04

Welcome to episode #37 of The Filmmaker's Playbook, hosted by writer-director Jason Branagan. -- My guest this week is writer and director, Waris Islam. Waris's directing credits include TV shows like The Bay, Vera, Holby City and EastEnders. He also wrote and directed on the BBC series, Bishaash and has multiple feature films in development. -- Today, Waris and I discuss how he got started in the industry, breaking into television, the pros and cons of shadowing as a training mechanism, working ...

Welcome to episode #37 of The Filmmaker's Playbook, hosted by writer-director Jason Branagan.

My guest this week is writer and director, Waris Islam. Waris's directing credits include TV shows like The Bay, Vera, Holby City and EastEnders. He also wrote and directed on the BBC series, Bishaash and has multiple feature films in development.

Today, Waris and I discuss how he got started in the industry, breaking into television, the pros and cons of shadowing as a training mechanism, working with agents, the writing process versus the directing process and much, much more.

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