Her films are supported by the Sundance Institute, The Black List, Cannes List, Film Independent, SFFILM Rainin, The Gotham Film & Media Institute, Islamic Scholarship Fund and have screened at the Palms Springs Short Fest, SFFILM, LALIFF and PBS Indie Lens.

NARRATIVE

BLUE VEIL
In the wake of 9/11, a First-Gen Muslim teenager discovers her mother’s cassette tapes. Film

EXPERIMENTAL

JUST ADD ROSEWATER A collection of visual poems that explore the sacred and the mundane moments of daily ritual.

EXPERIMENTAL

GARDENS
Commissioned  and Co-Created with Brynne Filer to create “concentrated portraits of a Black Woman’s presence through the softness of arc-less vignettes.”

MUSIC VIDEO

ELLA
Commissioned and co-created with El Haru Kuroi:“Ella pays homage to working class women, whose jobs are to look after and even raise other people’s children. This is a commemoration for her.”

FILM ESSAY

PRAYERS FOR THE HEART’S SURVEILLED A film essay unpacking internalized surveillance post 9/11, twenty years later through the intersection of spirit and technology. 

NARRATIVE

BRAIDS A visual adaptation of a poem exploring motherhood and feminine intuition. 

MUSIC VIDEO

GOSPEL NO. 1 Co-created with Brandy Young. After heartbreak, turning to spirituality to ground and re-center the heart through ritual. It extends a thread from the larger tapestry that is the Afro-Latinx Muslim experience.

MUSIC VIDEO

ANTIPATRIARCA Commissioned by Ana Tixou to contribute to video portraits uniting women’s right’s movements internationally.

INSTALLATION

JUNTOS Commissioned and Co-Created  with Myree Tillotson to translate performance and video art exploring archival repair from Puerto Rican Diaspoa experiences responding to the earthquake of 2020.

DOCUMENTARY

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL NAMES We examine the transition of Muslim names across immigration and socio-political events within the U.S. through the use of embroidered name badges installation.

PILOT

PAST LIFE SUPPORT When a group of medical practitioners are blocked by the red tape of the medical industry, messages reveal their past lives as healers; rooted in ancestral belief systems that challenge today’s medical industrial complex.

FILM ADAPTATION

SOLIFLORE In an attempt to recreate the nostalgic scent of the Mohammadi rose, an Iranian-American biochemist turned perfumer changes the DNA of soil and resurrects a century’s old rose.The extractive nature of the perfume industry triggers ancestral scent memories that begin to obscure the senses.