About — LEILA JARMAN

LEILA JARMAN (lay-la jar-min)

B. April 14, 1986 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Leila is an award-winning director, editor, and visual artist. A process-based artist across various mediums, Leila’s interdisciplinary approach integrates unconventional visuals and narratives to subvert social and cultural binaries. Her multi-cultural upbringing and identity (Iranian-Brazilian-American) inform much of her work.

Her work has been exhibited in film festivals, galleries, and museums worldwide, including the TATE Britain, LACMA, MOCA, and Ars Electronica. Her films have been featured on MUBI, Vice, The Creator’s Project, Paper Magazine, THUMP!, Afropunk, Paste Magazine, VH1, MTV, Autre Magazine, Hyperallergic, and The Guardian. Leila has been commissioned to work on projects for brands such as Nike, Converse, and Paradise.

In 2015 she became the resident filmmaker and Creative Director of Women's Voices Now (WVN), a global non-profit advocating for women’s and girls’ rights through social impact film. While at WVN, she created, Girls’ Voices Now, a summer youth program that amplifies the voices of young women from underrepresented communities in Los Angeles by teaching them documentary filmmaking. In 2021, the films she created at WVN were awarded a Daytime Emmy for Children's Programming and Animation. You can watch Under the Scarf here.

Leila is commercially represented by Left Productions.

She is a member of Free The Work, Film Fatales, and Brown Girls Doc Mafia.

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