Nijla Mu'min

Los Angeles, California, United States

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Nijla Baseema Mu’min is a writer and filmmaker from the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a 2007 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley where she earned a Bachelors degree in Mass Communications. She attended Howard University’s MFA Film Program, where she was the recipient of the 2009 Paul Robeson Award for Best Feature Screenplay for her work on Sweet 16. Her films are often concerned with subverting ideas of the “politicized” body. Within that scope, she explores familial relationships, silence, sexuality, and duality in black women. Her short film TWO BODIES has screened at festivals across the country, including the Pan African Film Festival, the Fusion: Los Angeles LGBT People of Color Film Festival, presented by Outfest, and the Women in Media Film Festival in New Jersey. Her cine-poem adaptation of author Tara Betts’ “Why I Collect the Hair” will screen at The Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival in June 2012. At UC Berkeley, she served as a Student Teacher in June Jordan’s Poetry for the People Program. She also participated in the VONA (Voices of Our Nations) Poetry workshop with poet Ruth Forman. Her poetry has appeared in the Berkeley Poetry Review, Poets, For Living Waters, the Diverse Voices Quarterly, Kweli Journal and the Mythium: Journal of Contemporary Literature. Her fiction and non-fiction is published in the Girlchild Press Anthology, Woman’s Work: The Short Stories, and most recently in The New York Times-featured anthology,Love InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women. She has performed at Busboys and Poets’ Nine on the Ninth Series in Washington, DC and The World Stage in Leimert Park, Los Angeles. Her photographs have been exhibited in Cambridge, Baltimore, and San Francisco. She is also a contributing writer to the Shadow and Act film site on the Indiewire network, and her writing has been featured in Bitch Magazine. She is currently in pre-production on her graduate thesis film, Deluge.

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