About

Paris born & New York raised, francophone Turkish-Sicilian Writer/Director Flavia Casà has a BFA in filmmaking from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her short film Fragile Forms (starring Broad City’s Arturo Castro) received the Gucci Award for Women in Cinema Scholarship. She worked for auteurs Cédric Klapisch, Noah Baumbach, and Academy Award-winning Director of Photography, Emmanuel Lubezki.

Flavia’s first feature, Beautiful in the Morning (starring The Bill’s Mark Wingett), premiered and opened LA Femme International Film Festival, where she was a finalist for Best Feature Writer. The script was top 20% of the prestigious Academy Nicholl Fellowship. The film was picked up by Herflix, a streaming platform for female directors. Flavia currently lives in London where she also freelances in advertising and is developing a slate of film and TV projects.

Modules Taught (2022-3)

FI329 - Screenwriting

The course takes students on a discovery journey from characterisation and plot structure through to complex audio-visual writing techniques, with a focus on crafting the writer's specific perspective on storytelling.

Office Hours

FAB1.24

12-1PM on Wednesdays & Fridays (book on Moodle)