Filmmaker Files - Episode 12: Featuring Iram Parveen Bilal

Raised in Nigeria and Pakistan, IRAM PARVEEN BILAL is a Physics Olympian-turned-filmmaker. In 2007, she formed Parveen Shah Productions - a global production company that focuses on stories that elevate the human condition. Iram’s third narrative feature, I’LL MEET YOU THERE, recently had its world premiere in competition at SXSW. The film is a family drama about a Muslim cop and his teenage ballerina daughter.

Iram was one of 15 directors invited to La Cinéfondation's L'Atelier at Cannes to develop her next feature project, WAKHRI (ONE OF A KIND), based on an accidental social media star in Pakistan. With an eye towards TV, Iram is shopping her one-hour show, DETAINED, which follows two matriarchs stuck at an ICE detention center. DETAINED made the top-20 un-produced, female-written pilots’ list for WeForShe. Her past noted feature length works include JOSH (AGAINST THE GRAIN), which became Pakistan's first film on Netflix and found a place at the US Library of Congress. Iram is an active mentor for women in film and tech and she believes genuine curiosity is the only antidote to fear. She is now the proud mother of a three-month-old daughter.

Filmmaker Fileshonto88April 7, 2020iram parveen bilal, filmmaker, director, sxsw, movie, filmmaker files

Filmmaker Files - Episode 11 : Featuring Gabriella A. Moses

Gabriella A. Moses is an award-winning director, writer, and production designer based in Brooklyn, NY. She is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Her production design work has been featured across top film festivals across the globe including Sundance, Toronto, Tribeca and SXSW.

Gabriella was selected in 2015 by the Hispanic Coalition of NY as one of their Rising Latino Stars. She has also served as a Shadow Director for the ABC Diversity Showcase. Gabriella is currently developing her directorial debut feature, Leche, which has received support from 2016 Sundance Institute’s Creative Producing Lab, the 2017 NYWIFT "From Script to Pre-Production" Workshop, 2018 Sundance Screenwriter's Intensive, 2018 Tribeca Film Institute All Access Lab and 2018 Los Cabos Film Festival Gabriel Figueroa Film Fund Rainin and Westridge Grant. She was a 2018 Tribeca Film Institute and Chanel Through Her Lens Filmmaking Fellow and was selected as a 2019 IFP No Borders Film Market Participant. Her latest feature screenplay El Timbre de Tu Voz was selected for the Cine Qua Non Screenwriting Lab in Mexico.

honto88December 2, 2019filmmaker, film, production design, movies, global cinema

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