
Abdul Malik is a Canadian-Pakistani screenwriter based out of Toronto and Edmonton. He dropped out of film school in his 20s to work in the union movement across Canada for a decade, returning to the film industry as co-writer of the Telefilm-funded PEACE BY CHOCOLATE, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Since then, Abdul’s written on series such as CTV’s TRANSPLANT, the recently released feature QUEEN TUT, and was an Executive Producer on the Super Channel digital series STREAMS FLOW FROM A RIVER. Most recently, he was Supervising Producer on CBC’s ALLEGIANCE, currently show-running season two of STREAMS, and completed a to-be-announced sci-fi action feature for Buzzfeed Studios. Abdul has a bevy of projects in development with networks and production companies in both the US and Canada. He moonlights as a journalist and photojournalist and is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre’s Bell Media Prime Time TV program.
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