Writer at AFIN

Biography

Ahmad Marouf is a Toronto-based writer, director, producer, journalist, and script supervisor. With nearly three decades of media experience across Syria and Canada, he has written, directed, and supervised continuity for television, film, and audio productions through his company, Amarouf Media Inc.

Marouf began his television career in Damascus, Syria, working for eight years as a television producer for the General Organization of Radio and TV. During this tenure, he wrote the station's first produced cartoon series.

After moving to Canada, Marouf worked for over nine years as a reporter and producer for Radio Canada International’s Arabic section and spent two years as a regular contributor to CBC Radio One. He also hosted the Arabic television show Omnyat on OMNI Television between 2012 and 2013.

Marouf made his short-film directorial debut with Extras, which he also wrote and produced. The film received international awards and festival accolades, including a Silver Award at the New York Movie Awards.

He wrote the feature film I Was Once Told, which screened at the Montreal World Film Festival, and wrote and co-produced the documentary One Heart, Two Homes, broadcast on OMNI Television.

In 2011, Marouf received the Rainbow Caterpillar Children's Literature in Mother Language Award for his story Sea of Pearls, later published in a children's literature anthology. The feature-length animation screenplay received a feature screenplay nomination at the 2021 AFIN International Film Festival and was an Official Selection at the Los Angeles Animation Festival.