Associate Producer: The Dissident
The Dissident is Academy Award-winning director Bryan Fogel’s follow-up to Icarus (2017). In his usual investigative style, and with the help of an international team of producers, Fogel sheds much-needed light on the horrific murder of Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, who disappeared after entering the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018.
Writer, Director and Producer: SPIRAL
Written and Directed by Asligul Armagan and produced in the short span of 24 hours, Spiral was one of the winners of the Curbside Shorts Film Challenge and was featured on the IMDb Homepage. The challenge, organized by Women in Film, ReFrame, and IMDbPro, invited female and non-binary filmmakers to create something inspired by lockdown.
Jury members included Maria Bello, Cara Buono, Marta Cunningham, Nisha Ganatra, Catherine Hardwicke, Barbara Kopple, Col Needham (Founder & CEO, IMDb), Tanya Saracho, and Kim Yutani (Director of Programming, Sundance Film Festival).
The film was also an official selection at Indie Short Fest, a quarter-finalist at the Sunday Shorts Film Festival, a finalist at the Vancouver Independent Film Festival, and went on to win the Silver Award for Best Director for a Super Short Film at the Hollywood Gold Awards.
Writer and Executive Producer: Lyssa
Written and Executive Produced by Asligul Armagan, Lyssa explores schizophrenia through the social thriller genre as part of a wider mission to use films to destigmatize mental health taboos. The film was an official selection at the 25th Annual Dances With Films Festival, the Imagine This Women's Film Festival, the California Women's Film Festival, the Awareness Festival, and the REEL Recovery Film Festival & Symposium, and went on to win Best Cinematography at the Toronto Feedback Female Film Festival and the Award of Excellence at the IndieFEST Film Awards.
Director and Producer: Embracing Community
Embracing Community is a documentary short that explores the intersection of diaspora and identity in the infinitely diverse city of Los Angeles, and was produced under the University of California's Annenberg School of Communication Journalism program.