Films

Selected documentary and narrative work exploring identity, conflict, displacement, belonging, and the human capacity for resilience and connection.

Work recognized by the Emmys, Peabody Awards, major international festivals, and Academy Award shortlists.

Featured Documentary Work

Champions of the Golden Valley

Documentary Feature | Producer

Winner of the Emmy Award for Outstanding Sports Documentary, Champions of the Golden Valley is one of the most decorated documentaries of its year, with more than 50 Jury and Audience Awards. Set in the remote mountain villages of Bamyan, Afghanistan, the film follows young skiers from rival ethnic groups brought together by a makeshift race organized by coach Alishah Farhang. What begins as a story of sport becomes a meditation on unity, joy, displacement, and resilience. After the collapse of Afghanistan, many of the athletes are forced to begin again as refugees, carrying forward the lessons learned on the slopes of their homeland.

Emmy® Award Winner, Outstanding Sports Documentary
50+ Jury & Audience Awards
Tribeca World Premiere

Streaming on Olympics.com

HollywoodGate

Documentary Feature | Co-Executive Producer

Shortlisted for Academy Award consideration and nominated for an Emmy Award, HollywoodGate is an unprecedented documentary following director Ibrahim Nash'at during the year he spent embedded with the Taliban after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Filmed at immense personal risk, the documentary tracks Taliban leaders as they attempt to transform from a fundamentalist militia into a modern military regime, using propaganda and spectacle to reshape their image. The result is a chilling examination of power, perception, and narrative warfare in the aftermath of empire.

Academy Award® Shortlist, Documentary Feature
Emmy® Nominated, Politics & Government Documentary
Golden Eye, Zurich Film Festival
Grand Jury Award, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
FIPRESCI Prize & Gold Star, El Gouna Film Festival

Streaming on Amazon

Retrograde

Documentary Feature | Executive Producer

Retrograde offers a cinematic and historic window into the final months of America's twenty-year war in Afghanistan, capturing its human and moral costs from operational control rooms to the frontlines of battle and the chaotic final withdrawal from Kabul. The National Geographic documentary premiered at Telluride and went on to receive major industry recognition, including an Academy Award shortlist, DGA and PGA nominations, and six Emmy nominations. The film won three Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary, Outstanding Cinematography, and Outstanding Editing.

Academy Award® Shortlist, Documentary Feature
3 Emmy® Awards | 6 Emmy Nominations
Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary, Emmy Winner
Outstanding Cinematography, Emmy Winner
Outstanding Editing, Emmy Winner
Grierson Trust Award, Best Current Affairs Documentary
DOC NYC Producing Award

Streaming on Disney+ and Hulu

Frame by Frame

Documentary Feature | Associate Producer, Translator & Impact Producer

Frame by Frame is a vivid and timely portrait of a country reclaiming its voice. Following its World Premiere at South by Southwest, the film went on to screen internationally, earning recognition for its intimate and urgent storytelling. Set in post-Taliban Afghanistan, the documentary follows four Afghan photojournalists navigating the emergence of a free press in a rapidly changing and increasingly dangerous media landscape. As they risk their lives to document daily realities, their work reframes Afghanistan not only for the world, but for themselves.

World Premiere, SXSW Film Festival
Best Documentary Feature, Camden International Film Festival

Available on Apple TV, Google Play, and GATHR

Mediha

Documentary Feature | Consulting Producer

Directed by Hasan Oswald and executive produced by Emma Thompson, Mediha is a powerful portrait of survival, memory, and self-authorship. The film follows Mediha Ibrahim Alhamad, a Yazidi teenager and survivor of ISIS captivity, as she turns the camera on herself while searching for missing family members. Through video diaries and intimate observation, Mediha becomes both a record of trauma and a testament to agency—a young woman reclaiming her voice, her future, and the right to tell her own story.

Grand Jury Prize, DOC NYC
World Premiere, DOC NYC

Available on DocPlay, Plex, Apple TV, and MUBI

America's Veterans: The War Within

Documentary Feature | Consulting Producer

Directed by Deeyah Khan, America's Veterans: The War Within is a searching and intimate examination of the psychological aftermath of modern warfare. Traveling across the United States, Khan speaks with veterans of America's post-9/11 wars about combat, moral injury, loss of empathy, and the long shadow violence casts on both those who served and the civilians still bearing its consequences. The film resists easy conclusions, offering instead a humane and unflinching portrait of what remains after war.

Premiered on ITV / ITVX. Available on ITVX, SBS On Demand, and Apple TV

Short Films

Guardians of Anatolia

Short Documentary | Executive Producer

Directed by Elif Koyutürk Hazen, Guardians of Anatolia follows a Sarıkeçili Yörük family on a seasonal migration through the Taurus Mountains, revealing a way of life shaped by movement, interdependence, and deep connection to land. As migration routes narrow and outside pressures intensify, the film offers an intimate and immersive portrait of a tradition at risk of disappearing.

World Premiere, Mountainfilm Festival

Almost American

Short Documentary | Producer

For Sam, the United States has always been home. Yet without a pathway to citizenship, he—like more than half a million DACA recipients—lives in a state of permanent uncertainty, his life governed by a temporary status renewed every two years. When Sam's mother is abruptly deported, the fragile balance he has learned to maintain is disrupted, forcing him to confront his own precarious position with new clarity. Almost American is an intimate portrait of belonging and family separation, tracing the quiet resilience required to build a life in the only country one has ever known while living perpetually on the edge of departure.

World Premiere, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

On the Mountain

Short Narrative | Producer & Executive Producer

Inspired by true events, On the Mountain follows Rabia Noori, an English teacher from Kabul, as she confronts impossible choices in the wake of Afghanistan's collapse. The film is a quiet story of sacrifice, resilience, and hope—honoring refugees, educators, and those who continue to carry light forward after displacement and loss.

Best Narrative Short, Sierra International Film Weekend (SIFW)