Hussain Amarshi

Hussain Amarshi

History

Hussain Amarshi is a film executive producer. He is the founder of the independent film distributor Mongrel Media. Amarshi grew up in eastern Africa and in Pakistan, and moved to Toronto, Canada in 1984.

Profile

Hussain Amarshi

Movies

Slash/Back
Producer
In a remote Arctic community, a group of Inuit girls fight off an alien invasion, all while trying to make it to the coolest party in town.
Best Sellers
Executive Producer
A cranky, retired author reluctantly embarks on a final book tour to help out a young publisher.
My Salinger Year
Executive Producer
A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.
Percy
Executive Producer
Percy Schmeiser, a third-generation farmer, gets sued by a corporate giant for allegedly using their patented seeds. With little resources to fight a legal battle, Percy joins forces with up-and-coming attorney Jackson Weaver and environmental activist Rebecca Salcau for a monumental case that leads all the way to the Supreme Court.
Come to Daddy
Executive Producer
After receiving a cryptic letter from his estranged father, Norval travels to his dad’s oceanfront home for what he hopes will be a positive experience. If only he’d known the dark truth about his old man beforehand.
The Grizzlies
Executive Producer
In a small Arctic town struggling with the highest suicide rate in North America, a group of Inuit students' lives are transformed when they are introduced to the sport of lacrosse.
Goalie
Executive Producer
The life of a professional hockey player was not always a glamorous one. For legendary goaltender Terry Sawchuk, each save means one more gash to his unmasked face and one more drink to numb the pain. Sawchuk traveled across the country racking up 103 shutouts and 400 stitches to his face, proving that this is a man who lives, breathes, and dies a goalie.
The Other Half
Executive Producer
A grief-stricken man and a bipolar woman fall in love and attempt to forge a simple life together.
Maudie
Executive Producer
Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis falls in love with a fishmonger while working for him as a live-in housekeeper.
Brooklyn
Executive Producer
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Beeba Boys
Executive Producer
Gang leader Jeet Johar and his young, loyal, and often-brutal crew dress like peacocks, love attention, and openly compete with an old style Indo crime syndicate to take over the Vancouver drug and arms scene. Blood is spilled, hearts are broken, and family bonds shattered as the Beeba Boys do anything to be seen and to be feared in a white world.
Natasha
Executive Producer
Natasha takes place over the course of one summer. It is the story of Mark Berman, 16, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants living in the suburbs north of Toronto. When his uncle enters into an arranged marriage with woman from Moscow, the woman arrives in Canada with her fourteen year-old daughter, Natasha. Mark, a slacker, is conscripted by his parents to take responsibility for the strange girl. He learns that, in Moscow, she’d led a troubled and promiscuous life. A secret and forbidden romance begins between the two of them that has bizarre and tragic consequences for everyone involved.
Every Thing Will Be Fine
Executive Producer
One day, driving aimlessly around the outskirts of town after a trivial domestic quarrel, a writer named Tomas accidentally hits and kills a child. Will he be able to move on?
Exotica
Other
In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he introduces her onstage, but Eric is having his own relationship problems with the club's female owner. Thomas, a mysterious pet-shop owner, is about to become unexpectedly involved in their lives.