Panta Mosleh

Panta Mosleh is a Canadian, Kurdish and Iranian writer, director, producer and actress whose base is in Vancouver and Los Angeles. She trained at the Groundlings School of Comedy, won a 2021 SNL scholarship, and went through Sundance's writing for television and directing programs as well as the Women in Director's Chair and National Screen Institute EAVE development programs. Her decade-plus in the industry covered jobs from production coordinator and production manager to producer and director, and she later directed television films for Hallmark, Lifetime and Peacock, including 12 Dares of Christmas (2023), The Wedding Contest and Christmas with the Singhs (2024), the last of which received seven Leo Awards nominations in 2025. She founded PK Studio Productions and co-directed the short Hatch in 2024, which premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival and took the Golden Yusr at the Red Sea International Film Festival for best short film.