AMBARIEN ALQADAR

My feature length screenplay - Nisa (Woman) won The Emerging Voice in Indian Cinema Award -"With her film Nisa, Ambarien takes us through...

Filmed over two days while visiting family in Old Delhi, The Calligrapher is a sensory experience in the studio of one of the few...

My magic-realist, feature length narrative screenplay- Bird Woman, is a finalist at the 1497 Screenwriting Lab. Read More: Diaspora Coverfly

My feature length screenplay- Bird Woman; the story of a far away father, a daughter and a magical creature from their past; is a...

Thrilled that our work on Sultana's Dream won The Frank J. Romano Endowed Prize, Rochester Institute of Technology.

Sultana’s Dream is a speculative fiction film based on a 1905 feminist utopia story written by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, a Muslim...

Bird Woman (Feature Length, Narrative) is a SAGindie finalist at The Stowe Story Labs! This is truly an honor since I've really admired...

Film Still: The Ghetto Girl. India-USA 2013 The Ghetto Girl is part of an Exhibition at The Hong-Gah-Museum, Taiwan, that brings a...

Three of my recent films- Ayesha, The Ghetto Girl and Who Can Speak of Men? are screening at The I View World Human Rights Film Festival....

The South Asian diaspora refers to the people from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, who,...

Thanks to the wonderful Anam Abbas, Filmmaker, Producer and Co-Founder of Documentary Association of Pakistan who invited me onto this...

Read article published on The Polis Project

Through this first of its kind Harvard University supported leadership incubator for Muslim women, am Advisor-in-Residence, mentoring...

I had an engaging conversation about my work with the Rochester Documentary Filmmakers' Group. Featuring some wonderful projects and...

Join me for a panel on presenting my work in progress on the surveillance of Muslim communities of color.

My work in progress screenplay has been selected to The Athena Screenwriters Lab NYC 2019! It will be mentored by writer-producer Ligiah...

My work in progress screenplay is shortlisted at The Sundance Screenwriters' Lab 2018!

Presenting Experiments in Transmedia Storytelling at The Frameless Labs Symposium MAGIC Spell Studios, 2018.

Selected as a Mid Atlantic Creative Arts Fellow 2017!

Headed to The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts for a three-week, fully supported summer residency to work on a feature adaptation of...