Geordie Sabbagh
Biography
From spending summers cleaning toilets with convicts, discovering Kung Fu movies at an underground cinema in China, to almost dying in a landslide, director/writer Geordie Sabbagh's experiences have been far from ordinary.
A Lebanese/Canadian raised in the Caribbean, he works across multiple genres and focuses on creating work where sarcasm is the highest form of wit, and nice people get away with it.
After ditching med school, he accepted a position with the BBC World Service in Afghanistan receiving death threats from Al-Qaeda. He went on to work for BBC TV/Radio learning his craft from the creators of shows we love to remake like The Office.
A CFC alum (Canada's AFI) and DGC member, Geordie won multiple pitch prizes in Canada and Europe, landed on the Red List, and selected for talent labs at Berlinale, TIFF, and Whistler. He has worked with top talent in the industry, including nervously directing David Cronenberg. His movies include When I Go Outside, Canadian Strain, and A Sunday Kind Of Love. Geordie's work has achieved worldwide commercial success, played at renowned festivals such as ComicCon, Fantasia, and Shanghai, and won multiple awards for directing, acting, and writing.
Prior to becoming a filmmaker, he got his MBA and was VP of a FactEnt company creating multiple series (After The Attack, Conspiracy Test, Rogue Nature) for Discovery, and learning the art of the cliffhanger from the inventor of Shark Week. One of his episodes was used at the US Supreme Court
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- another was one of the highest-rated in Discovery's history.
Outside directing, he holds the four-door sedan lap record at Canada's fastest race track, survived two terms as Parent Council chair, and founded the design collective -Eat Creativity.
In the role of director
Canadian Strain (04/04/2020)
A pot dealer struggles to make a living after cannabis is made legal in Canadian Strain. Anne Banting (Jess Salgueiro) is feeling major mixed feelings about the upcoming legalization of cannabis in Canada since even though it is something she fought for, it leaves her profession as a drug dealer null and void. Anne explores […]