Recent Projects

Writer, Director, Producer, Editor: Laila Kazmi
Cinematorapher: Vatsala Goel
Colorist: Tess Stuart

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

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: 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.

Read full story at:
aboutamazon.com/news/small-business/amazon-handmade-spotlight-totally-blown-glassworks

Role: Director, Producer, Editor

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.

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

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