Nasreen Alkhateeb
Nasreen Alkhateeb
2021 DISABILITY COHORT
Nasreen is an award winning filmmaker whose work illuminates historically excluded voices, and normalizes intersectional storytelling. By illuminating racial injustice, disability inequity, marginalized youth, the first woman VP, Nasreen thrives as a leader in films that shift our culture. Her ability to motivate audiences is a direct result of approaching story through intersectional identities: multi-heritage, Black, MENA, Disabled, Muslim, LGBTQIA+, and 1st Generation. Her content has been featured by Apple, FX, Netflix, Oprah's Emmy winning series Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, and the Tribeca Film Festival. Her directing credits include NASA, Kamala Harris, Naomi Osaka, PBS, Microsoft, and the Women’s March. Forbes described her as “breaking barriers.” A fellow of Sundance’s Accessible Futures Intensive, Nasreen is a Visions mentee of the American Society of Cinematographers, a fellow of the Ford Foundation’s Disability Futures, a fellow of The Disruptors, a fellow of the WIF Creative Circle and honored with the Wild Card Award by her NASA peers. Nasreen has developed programming for AFI DOCS, the Nantucket Film Festival, the Brooklyn International Film Festival, CINE, TIVA, and the EMMYS. She helped lead the RespectAbility LAB, dedicated to introducing Disabled writers/directors to studios like Disney, Sony, Lionsgate, Dreamworks and Warner Brothers.
Articles/Press Links
Forbes, Pratt, KQED
allmediastorytelling.com
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