NIJLA MUMIN

“Storm”

An intense meeting with an old flame brings back a painful memory for recently returned soldier, Storm.

Starring Jess Reed & Jozben Barrett

Writer/Director: Nijla Mu’min
DP: Anayo Amuzie
Assistant Director: Yanique Sappleton
Sound/ Gaffer: James Hatcher
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You never know what someone else is enduring.

Special Thanks to Avril Speaks!

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Nijla Baseema Mu’min is a writer, filmmaker, and photographer from the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a 2007 graduate of UC Berkeley where she earned a Bachelors degree in Mass Communications. She attended Howard University’s MFA Film Program. 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. She was a finalist for the PEN Emerging Voices Fellowship in 2009 and was the recipient of the Paul Robeson Award for Best Feature Screenplay that same year. Her poetry has appeared in the Berkeley Poetry Review and is forthcoming in Mythium: The Journal of Contemporary Literature. Her fiction is featured in the Girlchild Press Anthology, Woman’s Work: The Short Stories. She recently released a chapbook of poems entitled In the veins of fallen leaves. She is currently a graduate student in film directing at the California Institute of the Arts.