Salum Said Ahmed also known as Steven Lino, was born on the 16th April 1996 at Dar es salaam, Tanzania. For a long time he has engaged himself in film, he was attending frequently Zanzibar international film festival (ZIFF) workshop, studying film in aspect of Directing film and script writing.He likes watching films, reading books and playing video games. Salum introduced himself in the film industry in 2009. As a film director for 10 years, he directed short and feature films namely ALWAYS MISSING YOU (2018) short film and KIJIJI CHANGU feature film (2019) and they have been awarded in different categories.