Directing is a team effort. I lead a dedicated crew through the full production process — not a one-person freelance job.
Directing - Film, CGI Animation & Ads
Full-service direction for short films, 3D animation, and commercial ads — led by a dedicated production team, from concept through final delivery.
Film Producers & Studios
You have a short film, series, or narrative project that needs lighting direction and a CGI pipeline that reads as cinematic, not generic 3D render.
Ad Agencies & Brands
You need campaign-grade CGI content — lighting and compositing built to direct attention deliberately, the way a film director would.
DIRECTED & PRODUCED
Five explorations of light, identity, and human experience, each one a deliberate step forward in cinematic language.
FIVE Films
Musnad (2023)
A poetic CGI short inspired by the ancient AlUla heritage of Saudi Arabia. Musnad transforms pre-Islamic script into a living visual narrative, blending cinematic lighting, spatial sound, and cultural memory into an immersive short film experience.
Golden Palm Award – Best Debut Animation, Saudi Film Festival 2024
Best CGI Short Film, Al Ain Film Festival (UAE)
Featured
Director & Lighting Artist · Unreal Engine, Maya, Arnold, Nuke, Houdini
View the full lighting breakdown →
Was In 2020 (2020)
A creative document of the global pause, portraying human resilience and isolation through surreal digital imagery.
Award winner, Lift-Off Filmmaker Sessions, UK.
Director & Lighting Artist · Maya, Nuke, Substance, Unreal 4
Reflection and Refraction (2024)
A visual meditation on perception, using light as metaphor to explore the boundary between reality and illusion.
Director & Lighting Artist · Maya, V-Ray, Nuke
Award winner – IndieFEST Film Awards (USA); Award winner – London Independent Film Awards (UK); official selection, festivals in India and Iran.
The journey (2018)
A heartfelt debut, capturing the emotional distance between dreams and the paths we take to reach them. The film that started it all.
Director & Lighting Artist · Maya, V-Ray, Nuke
First independent short film.
Cinematic lighting framework: Telling the Story → Directing Attention → Shaping the Scene.
The same three-stage system used to light every film on this page also shapes how I direct them - from the first story breakdown to the final shot. See the full technical breakdown on the Lighting page →
What This Means for Your Project
Every lighting decision is made to serve the story you’re trying to tell your audience - not to fill the frame. That’s the difference between a video people watch politely and one that gets shared, remembered, and acted on.
Tell me about your project and timeline — I take on a limited number of projects at a time to ensure direct oversight from brief to delivery.
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Available for freelance projects, studio collaborations, and speaking engagements. Whether you're building a VFX pipeline, directing a CGI short, or need a lighting artist who understands both the technical and the cinematic, let's talk.
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