Cass Virdee is an award-winning writer-director creating bold, heartfelt stories that explore conflicted identity and empowerment.

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She recently graduated from the Directing Fiction MFA at the National Film and Television School. Her work has premiered at BFI London Film Festival, SXSW London, Iris Prize, and Palm Springs ShortFest, been broadcast on Film4, and played at over 60 festivals worldwide. Her awards include the 2026 Saatchi & Saatchi New Creators Showcase, a Shiny Award, a Directors UK Best Short Film Direction Award, and the Iris Prize Youth Jury Award.

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Cass recently joined the second season of Alien: Earth as a director's shadow. She currently has two features in development, both circling themes of womanhood, greed, and how far someone will go for the thing they want most.

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Her NFTS graduation film, Motorbird, was her largest production to date a 180-person cast and crew, action vehicles, stunts, VFX, dance sequences and musical numbers. That appetite for scope, scale and striking visuals draws on her background in art direction on films including The Batman, Indiana Jones, and Steve McQueen's Blitz.

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