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Cassiah Joski-Jethi

Writer / Director

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Sarah Williams

Cassiah Joski-Jethi is a mixed British / Indian award winning writer/director who began her career working for Gurinder Chadha OBE after a chance meeting on a train. Cassiah has been selected for the BFI Network@LFF 2024 and Brit List 2024.

Cassiah’s work has been awarded in the West Field Screenwriting Awards (finalist); BBC Script Room Drama (longlist); and at multiple film festivals. She has directed five short films which have screened across the UK and internationally. Her BFI Network award-winning film ‘Catch A Butcher’ – an ambitious British/Indian period horror film – screened at BAFTA/BIFA festivals, and was acquired by ALTER and BFI Player. Most recently, she directed the BBC Studios short award-winning thriller ‘The Pink Pill’, which is currently in its festival circuit. Cassiah is now working on her debut feature projects, one in development with BFI, and also works as a screenwriter having a number of other film/TV projects in varying stages of development.

Cassiah was a member of the BFI Network X BAFTA Crew 2018-2021 (mentored by Angeli Macfarlane in 2018), and is currently a member of BAFTA Connects 2022-2025. She was also a BBC New Creative 2020, completing an original BBC radio drama which premiered on BBC Radio 4 Extra in 2021. Recently, she was a Trainee Director on Apple TV’s ‘HIJACK’ mentored by showrunner/director Jim Field Smith. Cassiah has also been mentored by director Claire McCarthy.

Credits

SHORTS
Date: 2022
Production (role):
THE PINK PILL
Company:
BBC Studios
Project details:
Director

Award winning

Produced by Suki Bergg, Written by Sorcha Kurien-Walsh
Date: 2021
Production (role):
CATCH A BUTCHER
Company:
Tedium Entertainment/ BFI Network
Project details:
Writer / Director

Award winning

Produced by Thomas McDonald
IN DEVELOPMENT
Production (role):
CATCH A BUTCHER
Company:
Tedium Entertainment/ BFI
Project details:
Writer / Director

Feature film

Produced by Thomas McDonald, BFI Execs Ama Ampadu and Kate Maxwell
Production (role):
DETENTION
Company:
Everdee Media
Project details:
Writer / Director

Feature film

Produced by Emily Everdee
Production (role):
TRIP THE LIGHT
Company:
Altter Film/ Tedium Entertainment
Project details:
Writer / Director

Feature film

Produced by Thomas McDonald and Pete Valente
TELEVISION
Date: 2023-2024
Production (role):
HIJACK
Company:
60Forty Films/ Apple TV
Project details:
Trainee Director

Showrunner/Writer/Director Jim Field Smith

Credits

  • Date
    Production (role)
    Company
    Project details
  • Date: 2022
    Production (role): THE PINK PILL
    Company: BBC Studios
    Project details: Director

    Award winning

    Produced by Suki Bergg, Written by Sorcha Kurien-Walsh
  • Date: 2021
    Production (role): CATCH A BUTCHER
    Company: Tedium Entertainment/ BFI Network
    Project details: Writer / Director

    Award winning

    Produced by Thomas McDonald
  • Production (role)
    Company
    Project details
  • Production (role): CATCH A BUTCHER
    Company: Tedium Entertainment/ BFI
    Project details: Writer / Director

    Feature film

    Produced by Thomas McDonald, BFI Execs Ama Ampadu and Kate Maxwell
  • Production (role): DETENTION
    Company: Everdee Media
    Project details: Writer / Director

    Feature film

    Produced by Emily Everdee
  • Production (role): TRIP THE LIGHT
    Company: Altter Film/ Tedium Entertainment
    Project details: Writer / Director

    Feature film

    Produced by Thomas McDonald and Pete Valente
  • Date
    Production (role)
    Company
    Project details
  • Date: 2023-2024
    Production (role): HIJACK
    Company: 60Forty Films/ Apple TV
    Project details: Trainee Director

    Showrunner/Writer/Director Jim Field Smith
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