Misaq Kazimi is a documentary director and producer based in Los Angeles. He has a masters degree from the College of Fine Arts at San Diego State University, and fifteen years of experience in the media space.

Kazimi’s first feature-length documentary, “16 Days in Afghanistan,” screened at several universities, the British Museum and recommended by Penguin books in a study guide on Afghanistan.

In 2012, he distributed director Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s film “The Gardener” across American theaters, leading it to an Oscar® consideration.

Kazimi founded and curated the Dawn Breakers Int’l Film Festival, nominated by MovieMaker magazine as a top ‘Social Cause Film Festival’.

In 2015, a media startup Kazimi founded received venture capital funding from Boomtown Accelerators, placing him among the top 1% of entrepreneurs in the US who receive venture capital.

In 2016, Kazimi was a founding member at World Is One News, India’s first global news channel, where he led the network’s distribution strategy, setting it up to become one of the world’s most viewed news channels on Youtube.

In 2018, he created a documentary series in virtual reality in partnership with Facebook.

Kazimi’s recent projects include directing Steadfast, a historical film told through dance; producing Artists of LA, a short form documentary series; and leading Balance Now, a nonprofit aiming at increasing diversity and inclusion in media.

Kazimi was born in Kabul and raised in California.

• Led a non-profit think-tank on diversity & inclusion (Balance)
• Developed one of the world’s first virtual reality (vr) web series, in partnership with Facebook (Mindflipped)
• Led business & content strategy of India’s version of TED Talks, a company on Forbes 30 Under 30 list. (Josh Talks)
• Co-launched a BBC-like network in South Asia, now broadcasting to 40+ countries. (WION/ZEE Media)
• Founded a start-up rising to the top 3% of companies that receive accelerator acceptance & funding. (Boomtown Accelerators)
• Designed the theatrical marketing strategy & led the distribution of a feature film by renewed director. (The Gardener)
• Found a film festival, cultivating it to a top social-cause festival operating in North America & Europe. (Dawn Breakers Film Fest)
• Directed/Produced 2 feature-length docs & tv shows (KDK Factory)

My creative direction pans across documentaries, television, web videos & virtual reality that has reached a cumulative audience of one billion and counting.

Here are a few you should know about:

• Artists of LA (creator/director) | social media docuseries
• Steadfast (director) | a film with an Emmy-winning producer
• Mind Flipped (vr) | 2 million views
• Josh Talks | (director/curator) 2 million YT subscribers
• Edge (creator) | 1 million YT subscribers
• Konversations (host) | broadcasted to 40+ countries
• The Gardener (marketer) | 20+ festivals official selections + awards
• 16 Days in Afghanistan (producer) | A top-seller on Amazon
• For a full list, please see imdb.

• #2030Challenge (sustainable life, Day 1 2 3 4 5, 65k+ audience)
• Humans of San Diego (100 human stories, 3.5k audience)

There are 1.5 billion websites on the planet that you can be on right now, so I thank you for being here!