Yasir Masood is a Pakistan-born, Houston Texas raised filmmaker exploring issues regarding masculinity, migration, and identity in working class Muslim communities. Most recently, Yasir won the Emerging Filmmaker Award at the Los Angeles Asian American Film Festival for his debut feature film, ISTIKHARA, NEW YORK. Shot in Brooklyn and self-financed for a modest budget of $15,000, the film was picked up for finishing and distribution by Nicholas Weinstock's Invention Studios, producer and EP of Apple's Severance. Yasir then produced and EP'd the film, OUT OF ORDER, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and made its debut on VICE. Yasir serves as an in house director and producer at XTR, a nonfiction studio based in LA, where he was named as the Showrunner for the nonfiction series' PICTURE LOCKED & IN MY OWN WORDS as well as directing individual episodes.
Yasir aims to expand the breadth of how the Muslim-American experience is articulated by redefining the Muslim image in popular culture, to one that is nuanced, intersectional, and more honest about their experience, especially for working class communities.
