Amirah Tajdin

Nacimiento : , Kenya

Historia

Amirah Tajdin is a Kenyan artist and filmmaker. She graduated from Rhodes University with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Photography) in South Africa and Goucher College Maryland (USA). Over a ten year period of film-making she has crafted a signature style of blending reality with fiction through her strong visual language in both her commercial and cinematic work. This has seen her helm campaigns for branded content, fashion films, music videos and TVCs for brands such as Cadillac, Saudi Telecom, Bloomingdales, Virgin Mobile, Pepsi and the Louvre Abu Dhabi make up some of her portfolio.

Películas

Negotiating Liberation: Don't Be A Dream, Please Be Real
Negotiating Liberation: Don't Be A Dream, Please Be Real
Writer
The music of lovers on screen is a melancholic exploration of how the very act of expressing private love is a form of quiet rebellion against the loneliness of immigrant life outside one’s home country.
Negotiating Liberation: Don't Be A Dream, Please Be Real
Negotiating Liberation: Don't Be A Dream, Please Be Real
Director
The music of lovers on screen is a melancholic exploration of how the very act of expressing private love is a form of quiet rebellion against the loneliness of immigrant life outside one’s home country.
Minerva's Lilies
Minerva's Lilies
Director
A meditation on femininity and the magic of being a woman, a girl, a daughter. Minerva's Lilies centres on two sisters, Leah and Nayomi aged, 9 and 10 as they go through the motions of 'being girls'. The visual meditation forms the experience of not only the girls' little world of magic but that of the viewer and their mother who is carefully perched around their dreamlike atmosphere.
Marea de Tierra
Marea de Tierra
Writer
Laura, a heartbroken teenager from Santiago is on holiday in the southern Chilean archipelago of Chiloé with friends. As she wanders the lonely island seascapes she encounters a group of local seaweed collector women, with whom she shares places and stories.
Marea de Tierra
Marea de Tierra
Director
Laura, a heartbroken teenager from Santiago is on holiday in the southern Chilean archipelago of Chiloé with friends. As she wanders the lonely island seascapes she encounters a group of local seaweed collector women, with whom she shares places and stories.
Fluorescent Sin
Fluorescent Sin
Director
A poetic short that chronicles a drag queen having a nervous breakdown at a train station in an African city.