Amrou Al-Kadhi

Amrou Al-Kadhi is a British-Iraqi writer, filmmaker, and performer. Their directorial debut feature film LAYLA premiered in competition at Sundance and was picked up for UK release through Curzon, and has won a string of international sales in the US and throughout Europe. Amrou has several other feature films in development in both the UK and US. They are adapting their own memoir LIFE AS A UNICORN for Universal Studios / The Forge Entertainment, as well as the novel THE EXES for Fifth Season. Amrou is developing an original series with South of the River Pictures, and is writing a series for Pulse Films.

They’ve written a number of episodes for Hollyoaks, as well as the finale for the BAFTA-nominated Little America for Apple TV+ with Stephen Dunn, which The Hollywood Reporter described as one of the best 10 episodes of television in 2020. Amrou also wrote an episode for The Watch for BBC America, based on the Discworld Novels of Sir Terry Pratchett. Amrou has written/directed four short films, which have screened at Oscar and BAFTA qualifying festivals around the world, and have been distributed by Peccadillo Pictures, PBS, BBC4, NOWNESS, BFI Player and Revry.