#4: In Development

Director, Dumas Haddad

In this conversation with director Dumas Haddad we discuss the value of making your own work, developing your own material and discrimination within the industry.

Dumas Haddad is an award winning director and writer raised in London who has developed his craft from the world's of fashion, music & bleeding edge culture. His work elicits powerful uses of analogies and on-the-pulse narrative and character underpinnings. Focused on storytelling and dramatic action, his desire to reframe contemporary culture represents a rising generation of filmmaker that are trying to transform both today and tomorrow's voices. His accolades includes a Vimeo Staff Pick, Short of the Week, Film 4, Kinsale Shark Awards, Berlin Commercial and 1.4 On The Cusp of Greatness selection.

We had a very open conversation with Dumas. Here’s some of our key soundbites.

“I was asked on set to wear a hat to hide my afro. Because they were worried that the artist may figure out that I’m black”

“We all want to be the sun and have things orbit us. But sometimes, you got to be a black hole and force things”

“Sometimes it can feel like a production company has ADHD for people…and they’re running off this energy…but if the momentum feels like it’s slightly slowing down, they’re kind of onto the next one”