Yusuf Gad

5X optioned screenwriter for film and TV. I write scripts. I rewrite scripts. I even occasionally sell scripts. Born and raised in the wild and unforgiving tundra of Toronto, Canada, I spent my youth hunting caribou with my tribe to survive the punishing winters of ice and darkness. Most of my friends did not make it into their teens, having been either eaten by the predators that stalked us continuously, or succumbed to the harsh environment of the wilderness. I had to smother my dear father so he would not live his life in agony after a freak beaver accident. But, truth be told, I grew up as an average kid; obsessed with comic books and movies like every other boy my age was. I wrote my first script before I was 20, and had it produced into a cartoon for a local TV station. I had interned at one of the largest animation companies in the world before I went to university to study film. After university, my life took a different path, as I stumbled into marketing and branding and found out that I was quite good at it. I founded an ad agency and have spent the better part of my life helping other people make money with my creativity. In between brutal, grinding quest for food and shelter here in Canada, I have managed to option several of my screenplays as well as win a few awards along the way. Those that read my work never forget the words or the man who wrote them. Producers like working with me, directors enjoy having quality content to shoot, and actors love the lines I give them to make their own. But, hush, now. I must return to the hunt.