SALAM

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY CLAIRE FOWLER

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A female Lyft driver navigates the night shift in NYC while waiting to hear life-or-death news from Syria.

ABOUT OUR FILM FUND WINNER

Claire Fowler is a filmmaker from North Wales working between the UK, New York and LA. Her Shore Scripts funded short, SALAM, had its World Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, won a BAFTA Cymru award, and travelled to over one hundred international film festivals. She recently attended the Sundance Screenwriters and Directors labs with her feature screenplay TOAD, and made her TV episodic debut with episode 414 of the WB/Netflix show Manifest.

FESTIVALS & AWARDS

Year

Film Festival (Awards)

  Partial List (screened at over 100 festivals worldwide)
2020 BAFTA Cymru (Winner, Best Short)
2019 Mosquers Film Festival
2018 Adirondack Film Festival
2018 St. Louis Int’l Film Festival
2018 Citizen Jane Film Festival
2018 Urbanworld Film Festival
2018 Rhode Island Int’l Film Festival
2018 Nantucket Film Festival
2018 BFI London Film Festival (Nominated, Best Short) 
2018 Tribeca Film Festival (world premiere) (Nominated, Best Short)  

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