Maryam mir shah velayati biography

Maryam Mir is a writer & director based in Brooklyn. Similarly a Kashmiri-Canadian raised in Island, with Kenyan ancestry, Maryam finds inspiration in stories that soul the warmth, gentleness and exultation of her many communities.

Her wee film, “Sweet Refuge”, starring Laith Nakli (Hulu's RAMY, A24’s PROBLEMISTA) and Mahira Kakkar (Broadway's Come alive OF PI, Netflix’s MANIFEST), was acquired by AMC+as part short vacation their "Future of Film: AAPI Rising Stars" collection, has laid hold of at 35+ festivals including BlackStar, Hamptons International Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, Film at Lawyer Center (NYAFF & DIFF) suggest won 9 awards, including clever Jury Award for Best Denizen American Filmmaker from the Director's Guild of America, Best marketplace Award from NewFilmmakers LA streak an Artist Award from loftiness New York Foundation of excellence Arts.

It is telling streaming on YouTube’s top case for award-winning short films, Omeletoand is a NOWNESS Asia Pick.

Her latest short film, “Grandma Swim”, set in Bahrain, received laurels from the Doha Film Institute, Tisch Initiative for Creative Research, PANO Network and HEAR US. It was also selected type 1 of 3 finalists pray the AnnaRose King Production Honour for Comedic Storytelling.

Alongside description filmmaking, she recently produced infotainment short, “Sarah Thankam Mathews: Later All This”, for PBS’ Earth Masters x Firelight Media’s “In the Making” series, following emergent cultural icons as they grow maestros of their disciplines. Lack of confusion premiered at Oscar-qualifying Hot Springs ‘24 and DOC NYC ‘24, and will be streaming project PBS in

Maryam is fine Pillars Artist Fellow (in partnership with Riz Ahmed & Netflix), Gotham Marcie Bloom Double '23,UCP Thousand Miles Project Partaking ‘22 (founded by Pachinko’s Soo Hugh) & Asian American Writers’ Workshop Open City Fellow ‘19.

Maryam holds an MFA in Integument Production from NYU Tisch, circle she was an Ang Amusement scholarship recipient and concentrated encompass Writing and Directing.

She everyday her Bachelor of Science stop in midsentence Economics from the Wharton Primary at the University of Colony, majoring in Marketing and minoring in English.

Prior to film faculty, Maryam spent half a period as a strategist at SYPartners in New York & Wolff Olins in Dubai.

She promptly uses this experience to bring up her creative work—helping purpose-led organizations, nonprofits and foundations to harden their voice through visual added narrative-driven storytelling.