Fawzia Mirza

About

Fawia Mirza, “Zaynab”/co-writer. Mirza was named a “Top 10 Creative” by Indiewire Magazine, one of Chicago’s “Rising Stars” of indie filmmaking by WBEZ, AfterEllen called her one of "8 Queer Muslim Women Defying Donald Trump" and she was a 2015 recipient of the 3Arts Award for Acting. She’s produced, starred in and written short films and web series that have screened at film festivals all over the world including Her Story, Easy Abby, The Throwaways, Jamie And Jessie Are Not Together. Her short film The Queen Of My Dreams is being used in college classrooms to educate on gender, sexuality and race. The First Session was named an NBC Universal Short Film Festival finalist in 2015 winning 'Best Actress' and the Chicago Tribune called her web series, Kam Kardashian about the long lost lesbian Kardashian sister as “quippy, lacerating stuff”. Mirza's short documentary, Reclaiming Pakistan, available online, is about the cleric of the Red Mosque featuring activists Muhammad Jibran Nasir and Sabeen Mahmud.