Pavan Moondi (born August 21, 1985) is a Canadian film and television director and screenwriter.[1]

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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 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.

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Diamond Tongues a smart story of millennial angst". Waterloo Region Record, September 25, 2015.
  3. ^ Anderson, Jason (August 15, 2013). "Everyday is Like Sunday: Local indie comedy about conflicted young people is smart, energetic: Interview". Toronto Star. Retrieved August 27, 2019.
  4. ^ Wilner, Norman (August 5, 2015). "Diamond Tongues". NOW Magazine. Retrieved August 27, 2019.
  5. ^ Barry Hertz, "Review: Sundowners is a captivating, subversive blend of genres". The Globe and Mail, August 23, 2017.
  6. ^ Peter Howell, "How to become a movie star without really trying". Toronto Star, August 7, 2015.
  7. ^ Victoria Ahearn, "Four in the Morning creators were surprised that the CBC-TV picked up the edgy series". Telegraph-Journal, August 29, 2016.

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