About

Khaula Haider Malik is an award-winning filmmaker and artist based between New York City and Los Angeles. Her artistic and filmmaking practice begins from the personal and expands to explore the intersections of patriarchy, womxnhood, and ideas of home. Her work varies in form from fiction to experimental and documentary. Her filmmaking is a practice in resuscitation—of our present, our historical memory, and our lived experiences. She sees this as an act of resistance against cultural destruction.

She is a 2022-23 HBO/Gotham Documentary Development Initiative Fellow where she's developing original ideas under the mentorship of HBO.

Her short film HOW THE AIR FEELS premiered at AFI Docs, won the National Board of Review Student Grant Award, and the Special Jury Award at the Sharjah Film Platform. Her latest film, THERE WAS NOBODY HERE WE KNEW, about a middle aged Pakistani immigrant couple (her parents) contemplating alien life after they spot a UFO outside their window during lockdown, won best short doc at Fayetteville Film Festival and Virginia Film Festival. It was acquired by PBS-REEL SOUTH and is now streaming online. She was also selected for the Tribeca CHANEL Through Her Lens program and the Cine Qua Non Lab.

She is currently in post-production on her first feature doc which has been supported by DOCNYC and the Catapult/True False Rough Cut Retreat. She most recently co-produced Apple TV+'s GIRLS STATE, a sequel to the Sundance and Emmy award-winning BOYS STATE.

Khaula’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Sight & Sound, Brown Girl Magazine, as well as on PBS. She is a graduate of the MFA program at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, and a program advisor for the True/False Film Festival.