Bio

Saleh studied Television Production at Bournemouth University and is an MA Raindance graduate of Film from Staffordshire University, UK.

He is a Director, Editor and Screenwriter having made a number of short films: GAME (2012, under the mentorship of the late Abbas Kiarostami), Central Market (2014) and PickUp (2015), which were each selected for over fifty film festivals including the Tampere Film Festival (Finland), Slamdance Film Festival (USA) , Montreal World Film Festival (Canada) and TIFF Kids in Toronto, Canada. He’s also edited Bahrain’s first feature film in a decade, the award-winning THE SLEEPING TREE (2014).

As a screenwriter, he has written his first feature film, DAYS OF GRACE about a young Syrian refugee’s escape from Beirut (currently in development) and has penned the first episode of his TV series thriller THE CONVERT set in immigrant London. The script was written under the mentorship of Peter Ansorge (Former Head of Drama, Channel 4) at the National Film and Television School. Other projects in development include Saudi Arabia based epic THAMŪD, Crime drama THE HEIR and two independent feature films.

Spending his time between London and Bahrain, has also allowed him to live and work with people from a variety of cultures. He is an aspiring musician - playing the Tanbour, an ancient stringed instrument. The remainder of his time is spent taking photographs.

Saleh finds himself drawn to different cultures, especially ones that cross & intersect with the Muslim world and individual human stories of struggle and migration.

Saleh has worked with iconic brands such as Red Bull, British music artist Sami Yusuf and the C1 Foundation for Religious Dialogue.

Saleh is represented by Conrad Williams at Blake Friedmann, London.