Bilal Sami
- Producer
- Actor
- Writer
Bilal Sami is a Pakistani-American filmmaker whose multifaceted career spans acting, writing and producing.
As a producer, his credits include "David Blaine: Do Not Attempt" a six part documentary series by Imagine Entertainment for NatGeo/Disney+ (due to release in 2025), the Pakistani crime thriller 'Laal Kabootar / The Red Pigeon' (2017) which was Pakistan's submission to the 92nd Academy Awards, and the critically acclaimed and internationally distributed feature 'Dobara Phir Se / Deja Vu' which he also wrote. He also directed the music documentary 'Dhun / Tune', featured at London's Alchemy Festival at the Southbank Centre, London. In collaboration with the celebrated Pakistani artist and educator Rashid Rana, Sami created the public art project 'Stories We Tell' for the inaugural Lahore Biennale in 2016.
After running his own boutique production company out of Lahore, he established the New Media and Syndication divisions of Middle Eastern media giant Geo Entertainment between (2018-20), and has since been involved in projects across Pakistan, UAE, UK and the US.
With a lifelong passion for storytelling, he has since then steadily built up his experience writing, producing and directing film and TV on both sides of the Atlantic.
Bilal lives and works out of Brooklyn, New York.
As a producer, his credits include "David Blaine: Do Not Attempt" a six part documentary series by Imagine Entertainment for NatGeo/Disney+ (due to release in 2025), the Pakistani crime thriller 'Laal Kabootar / The Red Pigeon' (2017) which was Pakistan's submission to the 92nd Academy Awards, and the critically acclaimed and internationally distributed feature 'Dobara Phir Se / Deja Vu' which he also wrote. He also directed the music documentary 'Dhun / Tune', featured at London's Alchemy Festival at the Southbank Centre, London. In collaboration with the celebrated Pakistani artist and educator Rashid Rana, Sami created the public art project 'Stories We Tell' for the inaugural Lahore Biennale in 2016.
After running his own boutique production company out of Lahore, he established the New Media and Syndication divisions of Middle Eastern media giant Geo Entertainment between (2018-20), and has since been involved in projects across Pakistan, UAE, UK and the US.
With a lifelong passion for storytelling, he has since then steadily built up his experience writing, producing and directing film and TV on both sides of the Atlantic.
Bilal lives and works out of Brooklyn, New York.
