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MUSA SYEED’s two feature films as writer/director, VALLEY OF SAINTS (Sundance Audience Award Winner) and A STRAY (SXSW Official Selection), were both New York Times Critics’ Picks. He was also a co-writer on the Sundance selection MENASHE, which was distributed by A24.
Associate Senior Lecturer on Screenwriting. Education: B.F.A., New York University. M.F.A., Rutgers University-Newark. MUSA SYEED was born and raised in Indiana. His feature films as writer/director include VALLEY OF SAINTS (Sundance Audience Award Winner) and A STRAY (SXSW Official Selection).
Oct 26, 2016 · When independent film director Musa Syeed began travelling from his home in New York City to the heart of the Somali community in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he started to hear a recurring complaint.
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Dec 5, 2018 · Musa Syeed is an award-winning filmmaker and a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in the English department. He graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and...
Musa Syeed. FSC-Harvard Fellow 2019-20. Musa Syeed’s two feature films as writer/director, Valley of Saints (Sundance Audience Award Winner) and A Stray (SXSW Official Selection), were both New York Times Critics’ Picks. He was also a co-writer on the feature Menashe, which was distributed by A24.
Musa Syeed. Discipline: Director, Writer. Program Year: Fast Track 2022. Follow Us. Bio. Musa’s feature films as writer/director, Valley of Saints (Sundance Audience Award Winner) and A Stray (SXSW Official Selection), were both New York Times Critics’ Picks.
May 29, 2013 · Conflict zones have a long history of providing an amply angst-ridden backdrop for cinematic romance, but in his narrative feature debut, Valley of Saints, Musa Syeed takes a surprisingly lyrical look a largely untold conflict in India’s Kashmir region, an area that Indians and Pakistanis have fought three wars over during the past century.
