Nijla Mu'min

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Also Known As Nijla Mumin

Nijla Mu'min

Biography

Nijla Mu'min is a writer and filmmaker from the East Bay Area. Her work is informed by poetry, photography, fiction, and dance. Named one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine in 2017, she tells stories about Black girls and women who find themselves between worlds and identities. Her short films have screened at festivals across the country. In 2014, she was selected for the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Intensive, and she was the winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Screenplay at the 2014 Urbanworld Film Festival, for her script Noor. Nijla attended the 2017 Sundance Institute Sound and Music Design Lab for Jinn. Her short film Dream was acquired by Issa Rae Productions for online streaming in 2017. Her debut feature film, Jinn, starring Zoe Renee, Kelvin Harrison Jr., and Simone Missick, premiered at the 2018 South By Southwest Film Festival, where she won the Special Jury Recognition Award for Screenwriting. Source: https://www.nijlamumin.com/about

Known For

Director

2021
Black Prom

as Director

2019
All Rise

as Director

2018
Jinn

as Director

2016
Insecure

as Director

2015
Dream

as Director

2012
Two Bodies

as Director

Writer

2021
Black Prom

as Writer

2018
Jinn

as Writer

2015
Dream

as Writer