Crew Bios

Omar Majeed
Editor

Omar Majeed is a Pakistani-Canadian writer, editor and filmmaker.  His directing credits include feature length documentaries Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam and The Frog Princes (EyeSteelFilm) and the three-part digital series The Divine Oneness (CTV/Bell Media).  Taqwacore was included in SPIN magazine’s top ten list of 2009 Music documentaries, and received the World Documentary award from the Harlem International Film Festival.  His work has screen all over the world including premieres at SXSW, IDFA and Hot Docs.   In 2012, he was a a recipient of the NFB/Kathleen Shannon Award for work profiling subjects ‘outside the dominant culture’ and in 2017 he was a finalist for the Ontario Arts Council’s KM Hunter Artist Award.
As an editor, Omar has worked with many established documentary filmmakers including Yung Chang (The Fruit Hunters), Mia Donovan (Inside Lara Roxx) and Daniel Cross (Atanasoff: Father of the Computer).  In 2001, he was awarded a CSA (née Gemini) for Best Editing for his work on the groundbreaking program, QueerTelevision.
Although he’s called many cities home including Montreal, Baltimore and Lahore, Omar currently resides in Toronto with his wife and young child.  He’s currently editing The Artists – a ten-part digital series and feature-length documentary (CBS, Topic) by director Peter Mishara – profiling the early pioneers of video game design.

Peter Mishara
Writer / Director

Peter Mishara is a child of the 80s, hailing from the Upper East Side of New York City. He remembers a time before the digital age, but just barely. This informs his visual work, where he blends the immediacy and simplicity of digital with the warmth and soul of analog. He is a graduate of the film programs at Temple University and the University of Southern California, where he honed his visual style and storytelling techniques. In Los Angeles, after working several years as a cinematographer, he served as Head of Production, Film & Video for Marc Ecko Enterprises, a full-scale global fashion and youth-oriented lifestyle company. It was at MEE Peter ended up directing over 50 broadcast commercials for their various brands and spearheaded various video initiatives. In 2010, he set up roots in Toronto and directed and creative directed digital spots for brands such as BMW, Mozilla and Kraft. In addition to directing a pilot project on e-sports for VICE, and creative directing a VR/AR game for kids called Terracosm, Peter also wrote and directed a short science fiction film entitled SPRNVA (Supernova). In late 2016, he began directing The Artists, a 10-part documentary webseries and feature film about the pioneers of the burgeoning video game industry, which recently launched on Topic, the new venture from First Look Media.

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