Talent Guide

Shireen Alihaji

  • Discipline:Writer/Director
  • Program Year:Fast Track 2023

Bio

Shireen Alihaji is a First Gen, Ecuadorian-Iranian, Muslim, and Disabled filmmaker. Her intersections inspire her to create space through film technologies. Given how we remember is pivotal to healing, her films use memory as a central gaze to de-internalize surveillance, uncensored the imagination and mirror our infinite reflections.

Her films have been supported by the Sundance Institute, Film Independent, SFFILM Rainin, The Black List, The Cannes List and The Gotham Film and Media Institute.

Current Project

Blue Veil

Logline

In the wake of 9/11, a First-Gen Muslim teenager discovers her mother’s cassette tapes. As music unlocks memories, she discovers who she is.