Cassiah Joski-Jethi

Cassiah Joski-Jethi is a mixed British / Indian award winning writer/director who began her career working for Gurinder Chadha OBE after a chance meeting on a train. In 2024, Cassiah was selected for the prestigious BRIT List and BFI Network@LFF. Most recently, Cassiah was selected for BFI Midlands Directors Lab 2025 and currently has an original novel in development with Amazon Audible.

Cassiah’s work has been awarded in the West Field Screenwriting Awards (finalist); BBC Script Room Drama (longlist); and at multiple film festivals. She has directed five short films which have screened across the UK and internationally. Her BFI Network award-winning film ‘Catch A Butcher’ – an ambitious British/Indian period horror film – screened at BAFTA/BIFA festivals, and was acquired by ALTER and BFI Player. Most recently, she directed the BBC Studios short award-winning thriller ‘The Pink Pill’, which is currently in its festival circuit. Cassiah is now working on her debut feature projects, one in development with BFI, and also works as a screenwriter having a number of other film/TV projects in varying stages of development.

Cassiah was a member of the BFI Network X BAFTA Crew 2018-2021 (mentored by Angeli Macfarlane in 2018), and is currently a member of BAFTA Connects 2022-2025. She was also a BBC New Creative 2020, completing an original BBC radio drama which premiered on BBC Radio 4 Extra in 2021. Recently, she was a Trainee Director on Apple TV’s ‘HIJACK’ mentored by showrunner/director Jim Field Smith. Cassiah has also been mentored by director Claire McCarthy.