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.
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: Iliya Gegov, RUN Studios
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: On-site Co-Producer
Gates Foundation digital series Sick History: Malaria
Role: Director, Co-Producer
Documentary short produced for PBS television station KBTC. Writer Tamiko Nimura takes us on a walking tour of what was once a vibrant Nihonmachi (Japantown) in Tacoma, WA.
Role: Director, Producer, Editor, Writer
Story of artist and small business owner Wendy Gold. Produced and directed for Amazon.
Role: Director, Co-Producer
Produced for PBS television station KBTC. Ameera Nimjee introduces us to Kathak, a centuries old dance form from South Asia.
Role: Director
Seattle Art Museum, Peacock in the Desert, Maharaja Interview Produced/Edited by Laila Kazmi
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: Series Producer, Director
Broadcast special featuring four Latino artists living in the Pacific Northwest. Meet visual artist Juan Alonso-Rodríguez, poet Claudia Castro Luna, folk musician Abel Rocha, and dancer and choreographer Alicia Mullikin.
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.
ON THE FRONTLINES OF COVID-19 is an independent short documentary by Kazbar Media.
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.
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
In Close/PBS NewsHour: When Music is Medicine WINNER OF 2016 NORTHWEST EMMY® AWARD Produced/Directed for Seattle’s PBS Television Station
Nominated for 2015 Northwest Regional Emmy Awards
Humaira Abid is a sculptor and painter who creates everyday objects out of wood to cope with her experiences..
Directed and produced by Laila Kazmi, KCTS 9 For more Art Beat: newshour.pbs.org/art