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His feature UP THERE won Best Director and Best Feature at the British Academy Awards Scotland, and also won top prize at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. He's a former BAFTA BREAKTHROUGH BRIT, Screen STAR OF TOMORROW and ONE TO WATCH by Moviescope magazine, and a recent BIFA SPRINGBOARD cohort.
He’s a former BAFTA BREAKTHROUGH BRIT winner, Screen STAR OF TOMORROW and ONE TO WATCH by Moviescope magazine. Zam most recently directed ENDEAVOUR Series 7 for ITV/Mammoth Screen, has a number of projects in development and has been commissioned to write by the BBC, Channel 4 and BFI.
Zam Salim is a writer-director who made his feature film debut with comedy Up There. Zam was supported as a Breakthrough Brit by Danny Boyle and executive producer Hilary Bevan Jones. He also met with Company Pictures’ John Yorke and Big Talk Productions’ Nira Park to discuss television projects.
Up There is a 2011 British feature film comedy-drama, written and directed by Zam Salim and starring Burn Gorman, Kate O'Flynn, Aymen Hamdouchi, Chris Waitt, Jo Hartley and Warren Brown. It is financed by the UK Film Council, BBC and Creative Scotland. It is based on Salim's short film "Laid Off".
Zam Salim. Writer / Director. Zam recently set up his own company Incidental Pictures with a number of TV and film projects he is developing and co-producing. He has adapted the novel, STRAY, a psychological horror film by Vicky Allan, for Hopscotch Films and Creative Scotland, which he will direct as a feature.
Starring Burn Gorman, Armen Hamdouchi, Kate O’Flynn, Jo Hartley, Iain De Caestecker and Warren Brown. ** WINNER BEST DIRECTOR BAFTA Scotland, 2012. ** WINNER BEST FEATURE FILM BAFTA Scotland, 2012. ** Winner of the Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema.
Writer and Director Zam Salim has been named one of 17 talented newcomers names as BAFTA's 'Breakthrough Brits' who will be celebrated at a showcase event on Monday 21 October.
