Biography

Writer/Director Geordie Sabbagh’s work includes the awarding-winning shorts Counselling and The Proposal, which screened at ComicCon and Fantasia. His first feature, A Sunday Kind of Love, was one of five projects selected from across Canada to be greenlit for the IndieCan10K competition. The film premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival, received an Award of Excellence by Indiefest and will be theatrically released in 2016. Geordie is currently prepping a short, Tomorrow's Shadows, which will star David Cronenberg, and his second feature, Somewhere There's Music. A multi-faceted filmmaker, Geordie also produced the feature film Old Stock (Top 5 Canadian films at the box office opening week) and the thriller Clean Break (Best Drama, Atlanta Horror Film Festival). He was selected for the 2013 Whistler Project Lab, the 2013 Berlin Project Market, the 2014 TIFF Producer’s Lab and TIFF International Financing Forum, the 2015 CMPA and Telefilm Berlin Delegation. Geordie won the 10,000 Euro VFF Pitch prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 2013 where he was also part of the Talent Lab.