Farihah Zaman
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Director & Producer
Farihah Zaman (she/her) is a queer Bangladeshi-American filmmaker, critic, educator, and curator, and the Director of Grants and Fellowships for Brown Girls Doc Mafia. She has made three feature films: Remote Area Medical and This Time Next Year, as well as the doc-fiction hybrid Feast of the Epiphany and several shorts. She produced the Sundance-award winning Netflix Original, Ghosts of Sugar Land, which was also shortlisted for a 2020 Oscar®. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
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