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name: "Nijla Mu'min"
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updated: "2026-09-17T03:23:39.442842+00:00"
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# Nijla Mu'min

Director. Born in East Bay Area, California.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Also known as:** Nijla Mumin

## Biography

Nijla Mu'min is a writer and director. She is credited as director on an episode of the series *Insecure* (2020) and has directed episodes of *Queen Sugar* (2018), *Wu-Tang: An American Saga* (2021) and *Swagger* (2021–2023). She also wrote for *Swagger* and other series.

Her debut feature film *Jinn* (2018), which she wrote and directed, premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival, where she received the Special Jury Recognition Award for Screenwriting. The film was released by Orion Classics. Earlier short films include *Dream* (2015), acquired by Issa Rae Productions for streaming in 2017.

Mu'min is from the East Bay Area. She studied at UC Berkeley, Howard University and graduated from CalArts with MFAs in film directing and creative writing in 2013. Her screenwriting has been supported by the Sundance Institute, including selection for the 2014 Screenwriters Intensive, and she won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Screenplay at the 2014 Urbanworld Film Festival for the script *Noor*.

*Sources: imdb.com, nijlamumin.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Insecure* (2016), Fi1m 81, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/insecure.md)

## Also known for

- *Wu-Tang: An American Saga* (2019), Director
- *Swagger* (2021), Staff Writer, Director, Story, Teleplay
- *All Rise* (2019), Director

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