Nesa Azimi

About

Nesa Azimi is a filmmaker based in New York City. Over the last decade, she has worked on over a dozen documentaries, including an investigation of the Firestone Corporation’s intimate dealings with Liberian ex-president and war criminal Charles Taylor, and an exploration of Resignation Syndrome, an inexplicable medical condition that afflicts the children of asylum seekers in Sweden. She started as an intern at The Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem and has since been on staff as a producer for Rain Media, PBS FRONTLINE, Fault Lines on Al Jazeera, National Geographic, and the Ciné Institute of Haiti. Three of the films she helped produce for FRONTLINE received major recognition, including two Emmy Awards, an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. Nesa is a fellow with the Points North Institute, 2019-20 and the Firelight Documentary Lab, 2019–21. DRIVER, her first feature film in progress, was recognized with the Points North Pitch Award at the 2019 Camden International Film Festival. Her work has been supported by Catapult Film Fund, Doc Society and the Perspective Fund, and Tribeca Film Institute.