A Primer on Kashif Pasta (me!)
Welcome to KashifPasta.com. Thanks for coming along, but I know you most likely have a pretty big question about all this - who is Kashif Pasta?
First things first, yes - Pasta is my real last name. Moving on…
I’m a 18 year-old Muslim film-maker from the suburbs of Vancouver, Canada. I live in a city called Surrey, where I founded my own media production company, mkpmedia, in 2005, which I’ve run ever since. We aim to be a one-stop storytelling firm for everything from blogs to feature films to podcasts to marketing, but for now are focused on video content for the web as well as web design itself. I also co-founded and ran a school-district wide film festival for high school students for three years until I graduated, called Montage.
I’ve loved film for as long as I can remember, started making simple little videos around age 8, and my first digitally shot + edited video at age 13. Since then I’ve done a bunch of shorts and ads, including the award-winning 48 hour film competition projects Open Doors, and the most recent, Like a Soapbox.
Right now, other than being a Communications student at Simon Fraser University, I do 4 main things:
- An audio podcast called ‘Sick Feats’, where a friend and I do comedic commentary for popular DVDs
- A video blog
- An online persona including a website, facebook fan page, and videos for a character called K$ (pronounced Kay Money), a suburban rapper who really doesn’t have what it takes
- And I’m on the board of directors of the Surrey Urban Youth Project, and arts-based after school program to empower local students with a voice where they had none.
If you’re interested in working together, you can contact me by email - kashif at mkpmedia.net, on twitter at twitter.com/kashifpasta, or on skype, where my id is mkpasta.
For more general information about me, here’s a Podcast that I was interviewed on in 2007 that explains a lot about myself:
And if you’d like to commission me for any media production work, let me know here!
