Mustafa Bin Javed is a filmmaker whose work intersects fiction and nonfiction to explore identity, displacement, and the personal weight of political histories. He recently earned his Master of Fine Arts in Film and Media Arts from the University of Utah, after completing his Bachelor of Science in Media Studies from Bahria University, Pakistan. In 2022, he was selected as a fellow at the prestigious International Film Business Academy at Busan Asian Film School (AFiS) in South Korea.

Mustafa began working in the film industry in 2019 and directed his first short film in early 2020. Since then, he has written, directed, and produced over 30 short fiction and documentary projects across Pakistan and the United States, with many screenings at prestigious international film festivals. He mostly works on diasporic identity, religious and ethnic marginalization, and the emotional aftermath of socio-cultural trauma, often grounding these themes in intimate, character-driven narratives.

He is currently developing his first fiction feature film, 19, a project nurtured through AFiS, now in pre-production. Simultaneously, he is working on his debut feature documentary, Papa’s Diary, an exploration of patriarchal inheritance and emotional estrangement, now in development.

Mustafa aspires to build a career at the intersection of global cinema and socially engaged storytelling, where filmmaking is not just a craft but a form of advocacy and remembrance.