Pavan Moondi
Pavan Moondi (born August 21, 1985) is a Canadian film and television director and screenwriter.[1]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Originally from Kitchener, Ontario,[2] Moondi made a number of short films before expanding his last short film into the feature film Everyday Is Like Sunday (2013).[3] He followed up in 2015 with Diamond Tongues, which was co-directed by producer Brian Robertson,[4] and in 2017 with Sundowners.[5]
His films have been noted in particular for his frequent casting of musicians with little or no prior acting experience, including Nicholas Thorburn, Dan Werb, Leah Fay Goldstein, Peter Dreimanis and Luke Lalonde.[6]
In television he directed the 2016 CBC Television series Four in the Morning,[7] was a story editor on the writing team for Schitt's Creek,[1] and wrote one episode of the television series Find Me in Paris.
His fourth feature film, Middle Life, premiered at the 2025 Calgary International Film Festival.[8]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b Barry Hertz, "Why Sundowners – the kind of Cancon the industry needs – was so hard to get made". The Globe and Mail, August 23, 2017.
- ^ "Diamond Tongues a smart story of millennial angst". Waterloo Region Record, September 25, 2015.
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- ^ Barry Hertz, "Review: Sundowners is a captivating, subversive blend of genres". The Globe and Mail, August 23, 2017.
- ^ Peter Howell, "How to become a movie star without really trying". Toronto Star, August 7, 2015.
- ^ Victoria Ahearn, "Four in the Morning creators were surprised that the CBC-TV picked up the edgy series". Telegraph-Journal, August 29, 2016.
- ^ Jamie Casemore, "Nine Canadian world premieres unveiled in CIFF first wave". Playback, August 14, 2025.
External links
[edit | edit source]- Pavan Moondi at IMDb
- 1985 births
- 21st-century Canadian screenwriters
- 21st-century Canadian male writers
- Canadian male screenwriters
- Canadian male television writers
- Canadian television writers
- Canadian people of Indian descent
- Canadian writers of Asian descent
- Asian-Canadian filmmakers
- Film directors from Ontario
- Writers from Kitchener, Ontario
- Living people
- Screenwriters from Ontario
- Canadian comedy film directors
- Canadian film director stubs