Fawzia Mirza: Last News

Zoya Akhtar (The Archies), Fawzia Mirza (Queen of My Dreams), and Roshan Sethi (A Nice Indian Boy) are set to join the 1497 Features Lab as Mentors.

Naman Ramachandran “Me, My Mom & Sharmila,” the feature directorial debut of queer Muslim writer-director Fawzia Mirza, has set its cast. The film will feature Amrit Kaur, the breakout star of Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble’s HBO Max series “The Sex Lives of College Girls”; Hamza Haq, who won best actor in 2021 and 2022 at the Canadian Screen Awards for CTV medical drama “Transplant”; and Nimra Bucha (“Ms. Marvel,” “Churails”). Set in 1999, the film follows Azra (Kaur) over 48 hours as she travels from her home in Canada to her parents’ homeland of Pakistan to bury her father (Haq). Azra struggles to connect with her conservative mother Mariam (Bucha), but her return to Pakistan launches her into memories both real and imagined that reveal their unexpected similarities.

EXCLUSIVE: Up-and-coming writer-director Fawzia Mirza has signed with APA for representation.

It’s time to add another groundbreaking queer holiday rom-com to your holiday watch list with the short film “The Syed Family Xmas Eve Game Night” from writer Kausar Mohammed (“East of La Brea”) and director Fawzia Mirza (“Signature Move”). The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11.