Film + Documentary
A feature-length documentary about ordinary people and everyday life on the South Side of Chicago. Premiered in 2015 at the Black Harvest Film Festival.
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A Muslim convert re-enters society in Chicago after being incarcerated for over 25 years.
Feature documentary (additional cinematography).
Directed by Justin Mashouf.
After a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, students rally themselves around the tragedy as an opportunity to speak out against the national gun-violence epidemic. Premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
Dehydrated and hungry, eight men sat in agony aboard a Metro-North train with over an hour left to go on their journey. But they were well-trained. “Yes we can,” they said, and coordinated a pizza delivery to an upcoming train platform.
Ignoring threats of violence from the Al Shabaab militia, girls in Somalia organize a basketball league. https://chickeneggpics.org/grantee/rajada-dalka-nations-hope/
The pilot episode of a ten-part documentary series about the human microbiome.
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An Iranian woman artist/filmmaker captures the life and art of the legendary Egyptian singer.
Directed by Shirin Neshat and Shoja Azari.
Four siblings return to their childhood home for their cancer-stricken mother’s final days.
Written and directed by Kestrin Pantera. Premiered at SXSW 2018.