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Khaula Malik

Khaula Malik
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Director, Producer, Writer
Location
New York
Languages
English, Urdu, Spanish, Punjabi, Hindi
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Experience Level
Emerging
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Biography

Khaula Malik⠀is Pakistan born and Virginia bred filmmaker based between Los Angeles and NYC. Her short film, How The Air Feels, won the National Board of Review Student Filmmaker Award and Special Jury Award at Sharjah Film Platform. She was also awarded the 2017 BAFTA NY John Grist Scholarship. In 2018, Khaula participated in the Hot Springs Emerging Filmmakers Lab for her feature documentary The Noble Half.

She has served on the review committee for the Peabody Awards and The IFP Documentary Lab. Most recently, Khaula was selected as a fellow in the 2020 Tribeca CHANEL Through Her Lens program and the 2020 Cine Qua Non Revisions Lab.

Khaula holds a B.A. in Economics & Anthropology from the George Washington University and an M.F.A from the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema.

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Active Projects

Citizen Khan: Short Documentary
Logline: Inspired by a New Yorker article, “Citizen Khan” is the surprising story of a South Asian Muslim man who migrated to Wyoming in 1907, where he built a thriving business, and of his descendants’ bitter fallout over his legacy. Land, greed and violence color their ongoing struggle to make sense of what it means to be a family of Muslims in the American West today. 
Stage: Late Development/Early Production
Looking for: Production funding

Perpetrator of Maladies: Doc Series
Logline: After a multi-year effort to adapt Jhumpa Lahiri’s beloved short collection "The Interpreter of Maladies," into a film goes off the rails, philanthropist Donald Rubin tries to recoup his $2 million investment, but there’s just one problem: the money—and the director—have vanished.
Stage: Development
Looking for: Production partners

Mahram: Narrative Feature
Logline: In Lahore, Pakistan against the backdrop of a city being suffocated by smog: Samina, a mother dying of cancer dreams of Hajj, while her trans-daughter, Tahira, struggles to find meaning after losing her job, and Samina's husband, Tariq struggles with a painful addiction.
Stage: Development
Support: CINE QUA NON Revisions Lab
Looking for: Producers, Development/Writing funding

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Films

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Video Links







,https://vimeo.com/215278650 ,https://vimeo.com/383305683 ,https://vimeo.com/336105008

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