Omar Kakar, architect-turned-filmmaker, shapes stories where form meets soul. Born in New York and raised in Southern California, he is a first-generation Afghan-American with a professional B.Arch. from Woodbury University. His visual experiments, blurring space and story, were showcased internationally at Arquiteturas Film Festival, Architekturclips Netzwerk, and ArchDaily. With an MFA in Film Directing from Columbia University, his short film Man in the Morgue screened at the Directors Guild of America, Lincoln Center, and NFMLA. A finalist in Sony Pictures and Warner Bros. directing programs, Kakar is a Film Independent Project Involve Fellow, exploring the human condition through cinema.