Faisal Azam is an award-winning filmmaker who has worked extensively as an editor and is best known for the Oscar-nominated documentary short St. Louis Superman. He also edited Salar, which won Best Dramatic Short at the Austin Film Festival and was shortlisted for an Academy Award, and Without Shepherds, a Grand Prize Winner at the Brooklyn Film Festival that he also co-produced. Over the course of his career, Faisal’s work has been featured at Sundance, Tribeca, Clermont-Ferrand, Big Sky, Hot Docs, BFI London, and in The New York Times and Washington Post. In addition to editing, Faisal co-wrote H8, which was a top-ten finalist in numerous national competitions and won WeScreenplay’s TV Pilot Contest, gaining him screenwriting representation with Zero Gravity, the creators of Ozark. No stranger to the heat of the spotlight, as a producer Faisal has pitched before large audiences at Hot Docs Forum and Sundance Catalyst, both rigorous, high-pressure venues. He is currently producing Karachi Sky with Pastel, the Oscar-winning producers of Moonlight. Born in Karachi, Pakistan, Faisal immigrated to the US at age 15, graduated magna cum laude from UC Berkeley with a degree in Rhetoric, and worked in advertising and publishing before becoming a filmmaker. Faisal was selected as a Karen Schmeer Film Editing fellow, a LEF/CIF fellow at the Camden International Film Festival and will have a residency at the prestigious MacDowell colony this winter.