Talent Guide

Khaula Malik

  • Discipline:Producer
  • Program Year:Documentary Producing Lab 2025, Grants and Awards 2025

Bio

Khaula Haider Malik is an Emmy-Award winning filmmaker based in New York City. She most recently co-produced Apple TV+’s Girls State. She is currently in post-production on her first feature doc which has been supported by DOCNYC and the Catapult Rough Cut Retreat. Khaula’s work has been supported by The Sundance Institute, CAAM, Doris Duke Foundation and others. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Sight & Sound and PBS. She is a graduate of the MFA program at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema and served as a programmer for the True/False Film Festival from 2022-2024.

Current Project

Dear You

Logline

After escaping an abusive marriage and fleeing to the US, Grace James finds herself trapped in the US asylum system for 10 years. In this poetic portrait of a woman in limbo, haunting memories begin to resurface of Grace’s past life and her disappearing homeland—the island nation of Kiribati.