Musa Syeed

Musa Syeed

Biography

Musa Syeed's first feature film, Valley of Saints, won the 2012 Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Other works include the shorts The Big House (Sundance), Bronx Princess (Berlinale), and A Son´s Sacrifice (Best short doc, Tribeca). He has taught film for Williams College and the Tribeca Film Institute. Syeed was a Fulbright Fellow in Egypt and is an alumnus of the Tisch School of the Arts and the Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies Department at New York University.

El Festival Internacional de Cine de Guanajuato

Screenwriter

Movies
2017

Menashe

2016

A Stray

Documentaries
2007

A Son's Sacrifice

Short
2019

The Dispossessed

2013

The Big House

Director

Movies
2016

A Stray

2012

Valley of Saints

Documentaries
2010

The Calling

2008

Bronx Princess

1999

Independent Lens (series)

1988

P.O.V. (series)

Short
2019

The Dispossessed

2013

The Big House

Cinematographer

Short
2019

The Dispossessed

Editor

Short
2019

The Dispossessed

Sound designer

Documentaries
2007

A Son's Sacrifice