Farihah Zaman

Farihah Zaman is a queer Bangladeshi-American filmmaker, critic, educator, and curator whose award-winning work has screened at Sundance, TIFF, NYFF, Tribeca, MoMA's Doc Fortnight, SXSW, and more.

Her first feature, Remote Area Medical, was followed by This Time Next Year, then doc-fiction hybrid Feast of the Epiphany, and several shorts (Kombit, Nobody Loves Me, American Carnage, "To Be Queen" of the Emmy Nominated NYT Op-Doc series From Here to Home, and Jericho Walk). She produced the Sundance Award-winning Netflix Original Ghosts of Sugar Land, which was shortlisted for an Academy Award.

Zaman has written for Reverse Shot, Film Comment, Elle, and Huffington Post, among others, and her industry experience includes roles at Magnolia Pictures, IFP, The Flaherty Seminar, and Laura Poitras-founded company Field of Vision.

Zaman also contributes to the documentary community through teaching and mentoring at institutions like SVA, NYU, Sarah Lawrence, Uniondocs, and Bronx Documentary Center, and through equity collectives like Brown Girls Doc Mafia, where she served as the Director of Grants and Fellowships.

Zaman programs Infinite Beauty, an ongoing monthly series that showcases Muslim and MENASA lives on screen. She was a Documentarian-in-Residence at Bard College, Doc NYC Top 40 under 40 filmmaker, and recent resident at Yaddo, Monson, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Zaman is a member of the documentary branch of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.