Tarek Baig

Tarek is a fresh filmmaker with prior experience in screenwriting, research, and directory work. His film journey began with his first screenplay, The Melting Pot (2020), a historical drama focusing on Ellis Island immigration and New York City tenement housing in the early 20th century. Just one year later, he wrote a coming-of-age screenplay, A Day in the Life (2021), which focused on his experiences as the only Middle Eastern high school hockey player in St. Louis. A Day in the Life won a research grant from his university, Saint Louis University (SLU), to finance larger scenes that he directed himself with brand new student-actors.

Tarek’s literature analysis paper, Civilizing the Colonized, received a SLU Spaulding Literary Essay Award. Furthermore, an American history paper, Social Mobilization: An Analysis of Military Propaganda in Film, won an Honorable Mention for the SLU Tuck Louie Prize for Best Undergraduate Essay on American Culture.

Upon graduating from Saint Louis University in May of 2023 with a Bachelor of Arts in History, Film Studies, English, and American Studies, Tarek began helping filmmaker Katrina Parks and Cinefemme transition Parks’s existing American History documentary, Route 66: The Untold Stories of Women on the Mother Road (2022), into an educational curriculum.