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| Citizenship | Pakistani American |
| Occupation(s) | Film director and composer |
| Years active | 2009–present |
Amman Abbasi is a Pakistani American film director and composer and filmmaker. [1] [2] [3]
Amman Abbasi | |
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| Citizenship | Pakistani American |
| Occupation(s) | Film director and composer |
| Years active | 2009–present |
Amman Abbasi is a Pakistani American film director and composer and filmmaker. [1] [2] [3]
As a film director, Abbasi’s first feature film was Dayveon . The film had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and was also showcased at the Berlin International Film Festival, in 2017. [4] [5] In 2021, Abbasi directed Udaan, a short documentary about Baneen Khan, a female student from Karachi who begins her studies at Black River Technical College. [6] [7] The documentary was premiered at AFI Docs. [8] Abbasi returned in 2024 with his second feature, Yasmeen’s Element, a 76-minute drama set in the Hunza Valley region of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. The film had its world premiere at the 2024 South by Southwest (SXSW) and was featured in the Narrative Spotlight section. [9] [10]
Amman Abbasi's first credited work as a film composer was for the 2009 documentary Warrior Champions: From Baghdad to Beijing . [1] He has scored his own feature films Dayveon and Yasmeen’s Element and worked as a music consultant for the Halloween film franchise. [11] In 2023, Abbasi co-composed the score for the horror film The Exorcist: Believer with David Wingo; the work was later nominated at the 14th Hollywood Music in Media Awards in Best Original Score in a Horror Film category. [12] [13] [14] His compositions have also appeared in other films, including The Wall (2010), Tragedy (2015), Shelter (2016), Meth Storm (2017), [15] Saba (2024) and Yasmeen's Element (2024). [16]
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