Roble Issa is an award-winning Somali-Canadian filmmaker based in Toronto whose focus is on writing and directing dramatic features, documentaries, and one-hour dramas. In 2021, he made his directorial debut with a short documentary entitled “Mending a Crack in the Sky”, which was an official selection at the 2021 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and is now being broadcasted on Crave Television. Also, in 2021, he was accepted into Reelworld’s Emerging 20 Program to develop his debut feature film, “Car”. He is currently a Hot Docs fellow, as well as a participant in CaribbeanTales Black Incubator & Studio Access Project, and Netflix-BANFF Diversity of Voices Pitch Program.
