Nasreen is an award winning cinematographer whose work illuminates historically excluded voices by normalizing intersectional storytelling. By centering racial injustice, disability inequity, marginalized genders, stigmatized sexual identities, the first woman VP, and the largest telescope NASA has ever constructed, Nasreen thrives as a leader in visual storytelling that shifts our culture. Her ability to motivate audiences is a direct result of approaching each story through intersectional identities: multi-heritage, Black, MENA, Disabled (chronic pain, neurodivergent), Muslim, LGBTQIA+, and 1st Generation.
Successful productions include lensing Kamala Harris’ Vice Presidential campaign, the Emmy award series Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, Netflix’s Unknown Cosmic Time Machine, Netflix’s Supreme Models: Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Fashion, Apple+ Dear… episode with Billy Porter, and the feature film She Runs the World at the Tribeca Film Festival. Nasreen directed campaigns for NASA, GitHub, and the Women’s March, in addition to lensing scripted films centering Black, LGBTQIA+ and Disabled lead characters. Forbes described her as “breaking barriers.”
Nasreen is a fellow of the American Film Institute Conservatory, a Visions mentee of the American Society of Cinematographers, a fellow of the Ford Foundation’s Disability Futures, The Center for Cultural Power Artist Disruptors, Sundance’s Accessible Futures Intensive, and a fellow of the WIF Creative Circle. Born in Oakland California, raised in Northern Virginia outside of Washington D.C., she graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn New York with a BFA in Fine Arts thanks to a scholarship from the Black Alumni Office. Nasreen has participated in the Sundance Film Festival and developed programming for AFI DOCS, the Nantucket Film Festival, the Brooklyn International Film Festival, CINE, TIVA, and the EMMYS. She helped lead the 2022 Disability Belongs LAB, dedicated to introducing twenty Disabled writers, and directors to Disney, Sony, Lionsgate, Paramount, Sundance, Dreamworks and Warner Brothers.
Nasreen founded ALL MEDIA STORYTELLING to amplify stories that build a sustainable foundation for all communities to thrive. ALL MEDIA STORYTELLING works to transform how productions engage with people from communities who have been portrayed through a biased lens, and achieve equity for future generations. Offering: conceptualizing, scripting, payroll, crewing, insurance, interviews, direction, cinematography, sound recording, and editing. Dedicated to hiring equitable, Nasreen works with Disabled, QTBIPOC, women, and non-binary people on all productions staffed.
Speaking engagements: Sundance Film Festival, National Geographic, AFI Conservatory “Collectivism in Advocacy”, Lionsgate "Conversations That Matter", Disney’s The Power of Inclusion Summit, TEDx, NASA Women in Action, AwesomeCon, ReelAbilities Festival NYC + LA, RespectAbility LAB, StoryCode, Filmgate Miami, Light City Baltimore, Bus Boys & Poets, PORTALS, AMPM, Pratt Manhattan Mornings, The George Washington University, WPOW at Ohio University, DePaul University, University of Oregon, and Pratt Institute
Content published: Apple, Netflix, Amazon, IFC, FX, OWN, NASA, BBC, NPR, UN Women, SXSW, AMC, Discovery, Vogue
Fieldwork: Ethiopia, Iraq, New Zealand, Iceland, Costa Rica, Japan, Scotland, Greenland
Work as a local: Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Washington DC, Portland, Copenhagen, Istanbul, Dublin, Oxford, Bagdad, Lagos