Paris born & New York raised, Turkish-Italian Writer/Director Flavia Casà has a BFA in filmmaking from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her short film Fragile Forms (starring Broad City’s Arturo Castro) received the Gucci Award for Women in Cinema Scholarship. After graduating, she worked for auteurs Cédric Klapisch, Noah Baumbach, and Academy Award-winning Director of Photography, Emmanuel Lubezki. After writing and directing a portfolio of award-winning films that gained recognition internationally, Flavia’s first feature, Beautiful in the Morning, premiered and opened LA Femme International Film Festival, where she was a finalist for Best Feature Writer. The script was top 15% of the prestigious Academy Nicholl Fellowship. Throughout the festival circuit, the film received accolades for Best Feature, Best Acting, Best Cinematography, and Best Music. The film was picked up by Herflix, a streaming platform for female directors, and also available on Amazon Prime. Flavia currently splits her time between NYC and London. Via her production company she is developing multiple film & TV projects, offers video production services, and runs a film school (www.caritasfilms.com/cinemavericks). Having spent much of her childhood in different corners of the globe, Flavia always struggled with the elusive notion of “home” and often explores the idea of belonging in her work.