Specific Pictures
Award-Winning Non-Fiction Films
Message to Zaire / The Talk

Message to Zaire / The Talk

Co-directed with Mustafa Davis, Message to Zaire explores the story of a young, professional, Afro-Latino-Muslim couple in Oakland, California whose little boy dreams of becoming a police officer. This short documentary is part of The Talk, a two-hour long PBS special...
Redneck Muslim

Redneck Muslim

This short film, made collaboratively with acclaimed American Muslim filmmaker Mustafa Davis, follows the life and work of Shane Atkinson, the first Muslim chaplain in-training at North Carolina’s biggest trauma center. Recently Shane founded the Society of Islamic...
Paulina

Paulina

A collaboration with filmmaker Vicky Funari and participant Paulina Cruz Suárez, the award-winning experimental feature Paulina interweaves documentary and fiction styles to explore radically different perspectives and memories about the life of a vital, resilient...
Daisy and Max

Daisy and Max

Set in the part of Los Angeles popularly known as South Central, Daisy and Max reveals the long shadows of mass incarceration on families, and the lives of women who will risk everything to make their communities just a little safer. As a teenager, Daisy watched her...