FILMOGRAPHY:

Writer/Producer, Homing - Short Narrative Film

17 minutes | USA, post-production

Best Student Short, New Hampshire Film Festival 2023. Audience Award, Urbanworld Film Festival 2023.

A gruff Bushwick pigeon breeder has to connect with his 13 year old daughter before she leaves the city for good. This short is being made in collaboration with the pigeon breeding community in Brooklyn. Directed by Ricardo Varona.

Field Producer, Would It Kill You to Laugh? - Comedy Special, Peacock

60 minutes | USA, released

Produced by A24.

Features Kate Berlant and John Early, as they play exaggerated versions of themselves and reunite after suffering a public falling out several years ago.

Producer, July 4th, East New York - Short Narrative Film

15 minutes | USA, post-production

Recipient of the Princess Grace Foundation Award. Directed by Adewale Olukayode.

When a group of kids from East New York cross into Queens in search of fireworks, they end up catching the wrong kind of attention.

Producer, Telling Lies - Short Narrative Film

18 minutes | USA - post-production

Bookish Xavier is home for the summer when a mysterious family friend comes to town, setting his quiet summer ablaze with intrigue. Written and directed by Rali Chaouni.

Co-Producer, The Lion and the Firebird - Short Narrative Film

18 minutes | USA - post-production

When her husband is murdered by a group of insurgents in her tribe, Rising Fire must choose whether to trust them or flee into neanderthal territory.

Co-Producer, Dress Up - Short Narrative Film

12 minutes | USA - post-production
Production company: 10Mils Productions

A dark dramedy about a queer Arab-American woman, Amira, who brings her “roommate” home for her sister Layla’s wedding. Amira’s parents are thrilled that their daughter has found the perfect husband— but what happens when the real bridezilla isn’t even the bride?

Co-Producer, Tallahassee - Short Narrative Film

25 minutes | November 2021
A New Yorker Screening Room Film

Tallahassee follows the story of Mira, an Arab American woman who on the day of her release from a psychiatric facility, in the aftermath of an accidental overdose, returns to her mother’s home in Brooklyn to attend her grandmother’s birthday only to discover that her sister has told the family that she was on a trip to Florida. World Premiere: Black Star Film Festival, August 2021.

Writer/Director, BAIL - Short Narrative Film

6 minutes | USA, post-production

With the Support of The Bail Project

BAIL follows Sylvia, a mother who attends her son’s bail hearing, only to have her expectations dashed. The film powerfully inverts the courtroom spectacle, asking viewers to focus on the human cost of incarceration, and drawing attention to the inhumane system of cash bail in the USA.