Raised in Nigeria and Pakistan, IRAM PARVEEN BILAL is a Physics Olympian-turned-filmmaker. In 2007, she formed Parveen Shah Productions - a global production company that focuses on stories that elevate the human condition. Iram’s third narrative feature, I’LL MEET YOU THERE, recently had its world premiere in competition at SXSW. The film is a family drama about a Muslim cop and his teenage ballerina daughter.

Iram was one of 15 directors invited to La Cinéfondation's L'Atelier at Cannes to develop her next feature project, WAKHRI (ONE OF A KIND), based on an accidental social media star in Pakistan. With an eye towards TV, Iram is shopping her one-hour show, DETAINED, which follows two matriarchs stuck at an ICE detention center. DETAINED made the top-20 un-produced, female-written pilots’ list for WeForShe. Her past noted feature length works include JOSH (AGAINST THE GRAIN), which became Pakistan's first film on Netflix and found a place at the US Library of Congress. Iram is an active mentor for women in film and tech and she believes genuine curiosity is the only antidote to fear. She is now the proud mother of a three-month-old daughter.

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