A National Arts Festival winner, Timothy M. Lee Filmmaking Fellowship recipient and a Winner at the Made in Miami Film Festival and the Bahamas Film Festival Kareem Mortimer was born and raised in Nassau, Bahamas. Kareem first showed an early ability to be a force in the film industry when he wrote and served as one of the producers for the 1998 Bahamas Games Documentary. Since then, Kareem has made over 75 commercials and 5 documentary shorts for clients including The Ministry of Tourism, Burger King Corporation, The National HIV/AIDS Center and many others. Kareem has also produced and edited the acclaimed documentary Where I'm From, produced the film Varmint Day, winner of Best Comedy at the Made In Miami Film Festival; and he has directed the short narrative, Chance, which is currently in negotiations to be apart of an online anthology of short films which will make Mr. Mortimer one of the very few Bahamians to achieve distribution outside of the Bahamas. His film Freedom was one of six films chosen for the Spike Lee Caribbean Filmmakers Residency Program.