Credits
Short Films - As Writer/Director
THE TRAVELLER (2004) - A man finds himself in limbo at a train station, but is missing his travel documents.
PHONECALL (2005) - A man receives a call from his dead father.
THE BODY (2006) - A dead body and a Dorset police constable with a digestive problem has to deal with three different suspects.
GAME (2012) - A boy gets dropped off to the park to play football only to face the reality of not being included in the game.
CENTRAL MARKET (2014) A boy spends his time earning his money at the local village market by pushing a wheelbarrow and ferrying goods. An opportunity presents itself to make some more cash by selling goat’s milk.
PICK UP (2015) - A teen girl is picked up from private school in her dad’s embarrassing pick up truck. To her dismay, he tries to take her fishing with him.
Short Films - As Writer
STOP (2016) (Director Chaker Ben Yahmed) - An unemployed Tunisian man nicks his roommate’s police uniform in order to solicit bribes from people passing a stop sign, in order to pay for his estranged wife and his child’s medical treatment.
Feature Film - As Writer
DAYS OF GRACE (In Development) - A Syrian refugee finds himself on the run in Beirut. He must avoid the authorities and get around the local mobster or face a dangerous return to a country where people want him dead. (Development supported by the Doha Film Institute, script developed with Torino Film Lab, the Jordanian Royal Film Commission). Winner of a development prize at Cairo Project Market, 2015).
Saleh Nass
Agent: Conrad Williams
SALEH NASS
Saleh was born on the Island of Bahrain to Bahraini & Lebanese parents. Educated in a British school and having lived between Bahrain and the UK, he’s studied Television Production in Bournemouth University and is a graduate of Film from Staffordshire University/Raindance.
Saleh is a Director, Editor and Screenwriter having made a number of short films: GAME (2012, under the mentorship of the late Abbas Kiarostami), Central Market (2014) and PickUp (2015). He’s also edited Bahrain’s first feature film in a decade, the award-winning THE SLEEPING TREE (2014).
As a screenwriter, he has written his first feature film, DAYS OF GRACE about a young Syrian refugee’s escape from Beirut (currently in development) and has penned the first episode of his TV series thriller THE CONVERT set in immigrant London. The script was written under the mentorship of Peter Ansorge (Former Head of Drama, Channel 4) at the National Film and Television School. His upcoming short film AC WALLAH tells the story of an Indian AC technician in Bahrain whose dire circumstances lead him to murder his debtor.
Spending his time between London and Bahrain, (which has also allowed him to live and work with people from a variety of cultures - especially from the Indian subcontinent) he is an aspiring musician - playing the Tanbour, an ancient Persian stringed instrument. The remainder of his time is spent taking photographs.
Saleh finds himself drawn to different cultures, especially ones that cross & intersect with the Muslim wold and individual human stories of struggle and migration.