eem Morsi had careers in professional scuba diving and in human rights, before becoming a writer/director.
In March 2016, Morsi received a scriptwriting grant from the San Francisco Film Society for her feature film Bootleg. Subsequently, her short film based on this feature screened at a number of international film festivals, and was awarded the best Canadian short at the London Worldwide Comedy Festival. Morsi’s short The Door (2016) screened at Whistler Film Festival and won Best Drama at the 2017 Yorkton Film Festival, her subsequent short, Show & Tell (2016), won first place at the WIFT/BravoFact pitch competition and screened at the 2017 Yorkton Film Festival, where it won Golden Sheaf Awards for Best Director, Best Short Subject and Best Emerging Director.
Morsi has participated in the Berlinale Talent Campus in 2012, the Women In the Director’s Chair in 2014/2015, the Canadian Film Centre’s Directors’ Lab in 2015, and the TIFF Talent Lab in 2016. She also won the Telefilm Canada New Voices Award at the Toronto Screenwriters Conference in 2017.
Morsi is a recipient of The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television’s inaugural Apprenticeship Program for Female Directors, through which she is currently shadowing the director of THE HANDMAID’S TALE. She has also been chosen as a participant of Women in View’s 2xMore 2017 Director’s Lab, where she will get the opportunity to shadow on and direct an episode of Sinking Ship Entertainment’s series DINO DANA.
Morsi’s other film credits include Their Feast (2012 – Cannes Short Film Corner, TIFF, BBC, Cine Sud), Nostalgia (2015 – WIFT), among others. Her short film scripts Lipstick (2013), Check Point (2014) and Mango (2015) were all named finalists of the Film Prize of the Robert Bosch Foundation for International Cooperation, an affiliate of the Berlin Film Festival.