Bio

Amen Jafri spent 10 years in communications and HR in the federal public service, before pivoting into film and television, most recently working at CPAC, APTN and Alibi Entertainment. Earlier this year she was also a mentor and coordinator for the DOC Institute’s inaugural Short Film Lab. Her first film, The City That Fun Forgot?, was made without any priorexperience and it had a sold-out premiere in 2014, garnering local and national media coverage. Since then, her other works have been shortlisted for the TVO Short Doc Contest and screened for CBC, TVO, the American Documentary Film Festival and more. She is the creator of the seven-time nominated web series, The Secret Lives of Public Servants, and the director of Creatorland, a Wingd/Bell Media series on entrepreneurship. In 2018 she won for Best Directing in Non-Fiction at the IAWTV Awards and participated as a fellow in Hot Docs’ Emerging Filmmaker Lab.