Aizzah Fatima Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Aizzah Fatima
Acting
Biography
Aizzah is an actress and writer from New York City by way of Mississippi. After training as a Microbiologist and working as an ads engineer at Google, she traded in her Google perks for the arts, and hasn't looked back. Aizzah is a graudate of the conservatory at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and studied acting with the acclaimed Wynn Handman. Aizzah has appeared on High Maintenance (HBO), The Good Wife (CBS), Patrice O’Neal’s Guide to White People (Comedy Central), opposite Annette O’Toole in the short film Stuff , and is currently filming the lead role in the feature film My Cousin Sister's Wedding for which she wrote the screenplay with Emmy award winning director Iman Zawahry. She is the writer and performer of the ciritically acclaimed comedy one woman play Dirty Paki Lingerie which was developed with Matt Hoverman and Wynn Handman. The play has had sold out performances and received rave reviews in The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, NYC (The Flea Theater, 59E59, Abington Theater),Toronto (Harbourfront Center), a tour in Pakistan sponsored by the US Department of State, three tours in the UK including a 15 city tour in 2016 in addition to a US College Tour. Dirty Paki Lingerie is the first play to be invited to represent the United States at the International Theater Festival of Turkmenistan. The Wall Street Journal hailed it the play that "Breaks down stereotypes of Muslim women in America" and critics called it a "must-see" production. The play has been nominated for a Broadway World award and a Manchester Theatre Award in the UK.
Filmography Movies
Acting
Beautiful
Inspired by a true story, Gina, a kind New Yorker working in a beauty magazine who seeks to add meaning in her life, connects with a young acid attack victim from India. Gina decides to invite the young lady to New York, something that will end up changing both their lives.
I Am from Palestine
As Saamidah, a young Palestinian-American girl, anxiously starts her first day of school, she finds her identity in question when faced with a world map that doesn't include her homeland.
Asockalypse
A group of stoners save the world from sock stealing aliens.
Lapsis
In a parallel present, delivery man Ray Tincelli is struggling to support himself and his ailing younger brother. After a series of two-bit hustles and unsuccessful swindles, Ray takes a job in a strange new realm of the gig economy: trekking deep into the forest, pulling cable over miles of terrain to connect large, metal cubes that link together the new quantum trading market. As he gets pulled deeper into the zone, he encounters growing hostility and the threat of robot cablers, and must choose to either help his fellow workers or to get rich and get out.
Americanish
In Jackson Heights, career-driven sisters Maryam and Sam and their newly-immigrated cousin Ameera must navigate the consistent — and sometimes conflicting — demands of romance, culture, work and family.
BAD SURVIVOR
After being "broken up with" by her oncologists, a sarcastic young cancer patient — or should I say survivor — struggles to adjust to life at home with her multicultural family during her first day in remission. www.badsurvivor.com
Moon Ghost: Tales From the UnderMoon
Sigmund the Moon Wizard hosts this feature-length anthology of hair-raising short stories set in the absurd Moon Ghost Cinematic Universe, including segments about Moon Ghost's rampage on Mars and the feast of the sinister Were-Moon Ghost.
The Callback
An ambitious actress finds her way, and herself, on the road to building a character.
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Americanish
In Jackson Heights, career-driven sisters Maryam and Sam and their newly-immigrated cousin Ameera must navigate the consistent — and sometimes conflicting — demands of romance, culture, work and family.
Beautiful
Inspired by a true story, Gina, a kind New Yorker working in a beauty magazine who seeks to add meaning in her life, connects with a young acid attack victim from India. Gina decides to invite the young lady to New York, something that will end up changing both their lives.
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