Meedo Taha

Director / Writer / Sundance Collab Community Leader

Meedo Taha is a Lebanese filmmaker based in Los Angeles and Beirut. His stories explore identity and belonging through propulsive subversions of genre, such as a Rashomonesque short film entitled The Incident, an existential murder mystery inspired by his novel A Road to Damascus, and a horror musical melodrama inspired by binge-watching bootleg Hollywood and classical Egyptian cinema. His work has received support from the Doha Film Institute and Sundance Institute, and recognition from the Directors Guild of America and Francis Coppola’s American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition.

Meedo has mentored screenwriters, directors, and visual storytellers around the world, including Chapman Univeristy, the American University in Dubai, and Cine Qua Non Lab in Mexico. He earned a PhD in Architecture from the University of Tokyo and an MFA in Directing and Cinematography from UCLA.

Courses and Content

Sundance Challenge

A Fish Out of Water

This challenge closed August 31, 2021.

A Fish Out of Water

A fish out of water is the classic trope of placing a character in an unusual environment or situation to begin and/or advance the story, heighten tension, and/or to add comedic effect. Choose a historical figure or well-known cinematic character as your protagonist and place this person in a unique fish out of water moment.

Self-Paced Course

Screenwriting: From Outline to First Draft of Your Screenplay

With: Deborah Goodwin and 7 more

$595

Screenwriting: From Outline to First Draft of Your Screenplay

Intermediate

With: Deborah Goodwin, Kimberly Barrante, Sonte'nish Myers, Omar S. Kamara, Lindsay Stidham, Julia Camara, Meedo Taha and Tony Sebastian Ukpo

You’ve got a great idea for a movie and fleshed out an outline for your screenplay. Now, it’s time to start writing that script that gets past gatekeepers and grabs your reader’s attention — whether it’s an assistant, an agent, an executive, a financier, or the talent you want on screen. In this course you will move from outline to completing a first draft of your screenplay (90-120 pages).

$595

Sundance Challenge

The Interview

This challenge closed April 30, 2021.

The Interview

It's the opportunity of a lifetime. The stakes are high as your main character is mere moments away from interviewing for their dream job. Your character is seated in an office when there's a knock on the door and the hiring manager enters. Your character's stomach drops, recognizing the person. Write the scene that picks up from this moment.