A South Asian woman with short, textured purple hair and a blue shirt with tie-dyed cuffs stand in front of a white wall, lifts one arm behind her head and looks directly to camera.
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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