Director

Nijla Mu'min

Directing

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Directed movies: 5Directed series: 3All crew credits: 9

TMDB ID: 1845914

IMDb ID: nm2831529

Known for: Directing

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2012 - 2021

Years active: 10

Average TMDB rating: 7.56

Also known as

Nijla Mumin

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Biography

Nijla Mu'min is a writer and filmmaker from the East Bay Area. Her work is informed by poetry, photography, fiction, and dance. Named one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine in 2017, she tells stories about Black girls and women who find themselves between worlds and identities. Her short films have screened at festivals across the country. In 2014, she was selected for the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Intensive, and she was the winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Screenplay at the 2014 Urbanworld Film Festival, for her script Noor. Nijla attended the 2017 Sundance Institute Sound and Music Design Lab for Jinn. Her short film Dream was acquired by Issa Rae Productions for online streaming in 2017. Her debut feature film, Jinn, starring Zoe Renee, Kelvin Harrison Jr., and Simone Missick, premiered at the 2018 South By Southwest Film Festival, where she won the Special Jury Recognition Award for Screenwriting. Source: https://www.nijlamumin.com/about

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