Omar Farouk
Gold Mask Productions
@omarfarouk
Dark comedy director. If you are not uncomfortable, you are not paying attention.
Filmography
The Comedian
A washed-up standup discovers he can literally kill with his jokes — anyone who laughs drops dead within 24 hours.
The Weight of Water
A competitive swimmer paralyzed in a car accident coaches a ragtag team of disabled athletes toward the Paralympics while battling her own demons.
The Chess Killer
A serial killer leaves chess pieces at crime scenes, and a retired grandmaster realizes the murders form a game — and its her turn to move.
Smoke and Mirrors
A political strategist discovers that the candidate she is managing is a deepfake operated by an unknown foreign power.
Lightspeed Lament
A pilot on a relativistic starship returns to Earth after what felt like two years to find that 200 years have passed and humanity has evolved.
The Basement Tapes
A true-crime podcaster receives VHS tapes from an anonymous source that appear to show crimes that have not happened yet.
Zero Hour
With exactly one hour before a dam collapses, an engineer and a sheriff must evacuate a valley town whose residents refuse to leave.
Inside the Algorithm
Former social media engineers reveal the attention-harvesting systems they built and the human cost they never calculated.
Summer in Amalfi
A burned-out architect renovating a crumbling villa on the Amalfi Coast falls for the local chef who uses her grandmother's recipes as therapy.