Recent Projects
Produced for Amazon
Writer/Director/Producer: Laila Kazmi
Cinematographers: Vatsala Goel, Iliya Gegov, Resti Bagcal, RUN Studios
Video Editor: Graeme Chapman, RUN Studios
Produced for Amazon Handmade.
Director/Producer/Scriptwriter: Laila Kazmi
Cinematographer: Resti Bagcal
Gaffer: JT Teiper
Role: Director, Producer, Writer
Music Video by Tacoma Refugee Choir
BE COUNTED, Producer/Director, Laila Kazmi
Written and composed by Tacoma Refugee Choir, the song was created for 2020 Census.
Role: Writer, Director, Producer, Editor.
Meet extreme wood bender, sculptor and founder of Art of Plants. This story is part of a 4-part series called HANDCRAFTED, featuring stories of entrepreneurs with handmade products.
Read the full story at: aboutamazon.com/news/small-business/amazon-handmade-seller-story-jenny
Directed by Laila Kazmi, REACHING NEW HEIGHTS: FAZLUR RAHMAN KHAN AND THE SKYSCRAPER, is a feature length documentary film about the father of modern skyscrapers, American structural engineer Dr. Fazlur Rahman Khan, known as the ‘Einstein of structural engineering.’ Khan, a Muslim immigrant from Dhaka, Bangladesh (then East Pakistan), designed the iconic Sears Tower (now Willis Tower) and the John Hancock Center in Chicago.
Role: Director, Producer, Editor
ON THE FRONTLINES OF COVID-19 is an independent short documentary by Kazbar Media.
Role: Writer, Director, Producer, Editor.
Meet Seattle-based blown glass artist Dehanna Jones. This story is part of a 4-part series called HANDCRAFTED, featuring stories of entrepreneurs with handmade products.
Read full story at:
aboutamazon.com/news/small-business/amazon-handmade-spotlight-totally-blown-glassworks
Role: Director, Producer, Editor
An interview with Iranian-American artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat on her film ‘Looking for Oum Kulthum',’ which screened at the Seattle International Film Festival.
2019 Northwest Regional Emmy® Awards
Emmy Winning and Nominated Stories
WINNER OF 2019 NORTHWEST EMMY® AWARD
In this special digital and broadcast presentation of Borders & Heritage, we present stories of four Latino artists living in the Pacific Northwest for whom art is not only a form of social expression but also a proclamation of heritage. Meet visual artist Juan Alonso-Rodríguez, poet Claudia Castro Luna, folk musician Abel Rocha, and dancer and choreographer Alicia Mullikin.
NOMINATED FOR 2019 NORTHWEST EMMY® AWARD
About two months after Japan attacked American naval base at Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt signed executive order 9066. The Order led to the incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans. Kay Sakai Nakao and Shokichi Tokita recall their families’ stories of loss and upheaval.
A Healing Act: Improv for People with Memory Loss
NOMINATED for 2020 Northwest Regional Emmy Award
Produced/Directed for Seattle Channel Television
