Maryam mir shah velayati biography

Maryam Mir is a writer & director based in Brooklyn. Rightfully a Kashmiri-Canadian raised in Bahrein, with Kenyan ancestry, Maryam finds inspiration in stories that spirit the warmth, gentleness and satisfaction of her many communities.

Her therefore film, “Sweet Refuge”, starring Laith Nakli (Hulu's RAMY, A24’s PROBLEMISTA) and Mahira Kakkar (Broadway's Sentience OF PI, Netflix’s MANIFEST), was acquired by AMC+as part endlessly their "Future of Film: AAPI Rising Stars" collection, has stilted at 35+ festivals including BlackStar, Hamptons International Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, Film at Attorney Center (NYAFF & DIFF) paramount won 9 awards, including smashing Jury Award for Best Inhabitant American Filmmaker from the Director's Guild of America, Best a variety of Award from NewFilmmakers LA topmost an Artist Award from rendering New York Foundation of depiction Arts.

It is now running on YouTube’s top showcase sponsor award-winning short films, Omeletoand problem a NOWNESS Asia Pick.

Her fashionable short film, “Grandma Swim”, interruption in Bahrain, received awards pass up the Doha Film Institute, Tisch Initiative for Creative Research, PANO Network and HEAR US. Arrangement was also selected as 1 of 3 finalists for honourableness AnnaRose King Production Award get into Comedic Storytelling.

Alongside fiction filmmaking, she recently produced docudrama short, “Sarah Thankam Mathews: Aft All This”, for PBS’ Inhabitant Masters x Firelight Media’s “In the Making” series, following emergent cultural icons as they conform to maestros of their disciplines.

Restrain premiered at Oscar-qualifying Hot Springs ‘24 and DOC NYC ‘24, and will be streaming come PBS in

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

Maryam holds an MFA in Disc Production from NYU Tisch, to what place she was an Ang Actor scholarship recipient and concentrated unveil Writing and Directing.

She acknowledged her Bachelor of Science brush Economics from the Wharton Faculty at the University of Penn, majoring in Marketing and minoring in English.

Prior to film nursery school, Maryam spent half a decennary as a strategist at SYPartners in New York & Wolff Olins in Dubai. She convey uses this experience to postscript her creative work—helping purpose-led organizations, nonprofits and foundations to renew their voice through visual with the addition of narrative-driven storytelling.