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Nijla Mu'min

Director, Producer, Writer, Additional Credits
Nijla Mu'min is a writer and filmmaker from the East Bay Area. Her work is informed by poetry, photography, fiction, and dance. Named one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine in 2017, she tells stories about Black girls and women who find themselves between worlds and identities. Her short films have screened at festivals across the country. In 2014, she was selected for the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Intensive, and she was the winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Screenplay at the 2014 Urbanworld Film Festival, for her script Noor. Nijla attended the 2017 Sundance Institute Sound and Music Design Lab for Jinn. Her short film Dream was acquired by Issa Rae Productions for online streaming in 2017. Her debut feature film, Jinn, starring Zoe Renee, Kelvin Harrison Jr., and Simone Missick, premiered at the 2018 South By Southwest Film Festival, where she won the Special Jury Recognition Award for Screenwriting.

Source: https://www.nijlamumin.com/about

Known For

  • Insecure
  • Swagger
  • Wu-Tang: An American Saga
  • Jinn
  • East New York
  • Reasonable Doubt (2022)
  • All Rise
  • Queen Sugar

Nijla Mu'min Filmography

2022
East New York (TV Series)
2022
2021
Swagger (TV Series)
2019
All Rise (TV Series)
2019
2018
2016
Insecure (TV Series)
2016
Queen Sugar (TV Series)

2018
Jinn · as Co-Producer

2018

2021
Swagger (TV Series) · as Staff Writer
2021
Blindspotting (TV Series) · as Written By

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