about

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 recent projects include directing Art & Soul, a docu-series on a Los Angeles based mural artist; directing Steadfast, a historical film told through dance; producing Artists of LA, a short-form series highlighting Los Angeles-based artists, and leading Balance Now, a nonprofit that uses media for social justice.

In 2007, he produced his first feature-length documentary, “16 Days in Afghanistan,” which screened at several universities, the British Museum and is a recommended film by Penguin books in a study guide on Afghanistan.

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

In 2012, he distributed world cinema director Makhmalbaf’s film “The Gardener” in US theaters, leading it to multiple festival screenings and an Oscar® consideration.

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

Internationally, Kazimi was a founding member and managing producer at at World Is One News, India’s first global news channel. He also served as a strategy director for India’s version of TED Talks and directed a documentary series in VR in partnership with Facebook.

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)