Writer/ Director - Los Angeles/ Toronto

Joshua Amar is an exuberant, gritty genre director/writer. Amar creates diverse films that are both viscerally violent and elegiac, focusing on themes of toxic masculinity, family, and redefining what it means to be a "bad" person. He's a graduate from the prestigious AFI Conservatory Directing Fellowship. He's a first-generation Canadian born to Moroccan immigrants. =