Amirah Tajdin is an award-winning Kenyan director and artist. She spent her teen years in Dubai and received a BFA in South Africa and Baltimore. Inspired by Riot grrrl bands of the 90s and the feminism of her rebel grandmothers, Amirah brings authentic cultural nuance and bold style across multiple genres. Her career in commercials, fashion films, and documentaries includes brand work for Cadillac, SPANX, Farfetch, Bloomingdale’s, M.A.C, Virgin Mobile and Pepsi. Her film for "Girls Who Code" was a Tribeca X Award finalist and garnered a Best Director nomination. For The Louvre in Abu-Dhabi, Amirah wrote and directed “Negotiating Liberation,” a meditation on the African immigrant experience in Dubai, which was shortlisted at the Berlin Commercial Awards, and made official selections at BlackStar Festival and the LA Black Film Festival. Her short film "Marea di Tierra," competed at Sundance and Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. Amirah is a Sundance Institute Fellow, selected for both the Screenwriter's Lab and Director’s Lab for her feature film currently in development. Amirah takes pride in being Black, Arab, Kenyan, Muslim, an aesthete and a woman most of all. Her work honors the Black matrilineal kin she descends from and the voices of societies' forgotten dreamers.