https://www.10mils.com/about daily 0.75 2026-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/86c39b03-025d-4b90-8546-6265db034924/RetreatPortraits_Aya02.png About Ayah is a producer based in Brooklyn, NY. She is a Film Independent Producing Lab and The Gotham/Rotterdam Lab fellow. She founded 10 Mils Productions, through which she leverages her business background, the power of story, and her commitment to representation in the media to support storytellers from her communities. Ayah co-produced Raed Alsemari’s DUNYA'S DAY (Sundance 2019). She produced Karina Dandashi’s DRESS UP (Short of the Week) and COUSINS (The New Yorker/Vimeo Staff Pick). Her film SWEET REFUGE (2023) by writer/director Maryam Mir, starring Laith Nakli (Hulu’s Ramy) was acquired by AMC+ and is now streaming on Omeleto and Nowness Asia. https://www.10mils.com/contact daily 0.75 2024-08-09 https://www.10mils.com/branded daily 0.75 2020-10-11 https://www.10mils.com/branded/starhawk-design-studio monthly 0.5 2020-10-11 https://www.10mils.com/branded/adiff monthly 0.5 2020-06-23 https://www.10mils.com/branded/organic-recycling monthly 0.5 2020-06-24 https://www.10mils.com/branded/emmas-place monthly 0.5 2020-07-23 https://www.10mils.com/film daily 1.0 2026-02-01 https://www.10mils.com/film/dress-up monthly 0.5 2025-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1618497259178-6XJGK9GR6YAVBQL5L519/20140301_Trade-151_012-2.jpg Film - DRESS UP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694583486-2PQT0LQ193RL7MCB6DX4/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg Film - DRESS UP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694644871-IC85FNH781UNZSZEGHDR/Aro+Ha_0428.jpg Film - DRESS UP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/85beeda4-a38a-41d1-a629-9ba6cc6ffa0b/IMG_2573+%281%29.JPG Film - DRESS UP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/ae548dea-bd5a-446e-9106-4e68bdd22df8/DressUp_Still2.png Film - DRESS UP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/e9e02bc2-b239-453f-acda-fcd9ce29ec81/DressUp_Still4.png Film - DRESS UP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/9ef0cc28-f483-4064-b18f-e677049adcb8/DressUp_Still3.png Film - DRESS UP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/c951bf09-5a5f-4273-994b-e5e2bb0adaab/DressUp_Still1.png Film - DRESS UP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/a0113d5f-dbf5-415c-b0d3-8116a3d9fbf8/KD-FILM-34.jpg Film - DRESS UP - Karina Dandashi Writer / Director Karina Dandashi is a Syrian-American Muslim writer, director, and actor born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Her films explore nuances in identity through the intersection of family, religion, and culture in Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) and Muslim communities in America. Karina is a 2020 Creative Culture Fellow at The Jacob Burns Film Center and a 2021 Sundance Ignite Fellow. She was featured in Marie Claire’s inaugural Creators Issue as one of the “Top 21 Creators to Watch”. She is currently writing her first feature film. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/8aea9358-3ff7-49e8-b827-6dfb7eb227a3/Profile%2Bpicture.jpg Film - DRESS UP - Ayah Producer Ayah is a Palestinian-American film producer based in Brooklyn, NY. She leverages her business background and commitment to diversity in the media to support underrepresented artists. She co-produced DUNYA'S DAY, which won the short film Jury Award for International Fiction at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/1602373054455-K5IFSN0U15B94N3HYEHQ/profile%2Bpic%2B%25282%2529.jpg Film - DRESS UP - Samar Habib Executive Producer Samar Habib is a writer, researcher and scholar of international standing. She is widely known for numerous books, articles and encyclopedia entries, as well as public lectures on gender and sexuality in the Arab world. In 2016, Dr. Habib revisited and updated her research on queer Arab cinema which was first published in Female Homosexuality in the Middle East in 2007. 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He graduated from the prestigious William Esper Studio Professional Actor Training Program. Laith made his stage debut in War at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Company. Other credits include Cry of the Reed –Huntington, Inana – Denver Center, Aftermath - NYTW, Lidless – Page 73, Food & Fadwa – NYTW and Cyrano -- Goodspeed. Laith is one of the regular characters in the HULU series Ramy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/a8ad973b-ae91-4851-a30b-94b735e40442/Mahira_Kakkar13360.jpg Film - SWEET REFUGE - Mahira Kakkar Sakina Mahira Kakkar is a multi lingual actress and writer. Select stage credits include the premiere of Monsoon Wedding with Mira Nair, Clive with Ethan Hawke, Ms. Witherspoon with Christopher Durang and Jesus in India with Lloyd Suh. Most recently, she appeared as a lead in A Suitable Boy (BBC, Netflix India) and a recurring on Manifest (NBC, US). Additional TV credits: New Amsterdam, Law and Order:CI, Odd Mom Out, Orange is the New Black and others. Film work includes Hank and Asha (Slamdance Audience Favorite, Napa Valley Film Festival Best Actress), Hechki, and Bite Me. She has worked extensively in regional theater. Training: Juilliard. Upcoming: New Golden Age (Primary Stages). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/1625915805893-LXTBXXUBCW5Z2VAQJNDO/Sweet+Refuge+Pitch_MENA+Canada+Filmmaking+Grant.jpg Film - SWEET REFUGE - Maryam Mir Writer / Director Maryam Mir is a writer/director currently pursuing her MFA in Film Production at NYU Tisch, where she is an Ang Lee Scholar. As a Kashmiri-Canadian born in Germany, raised in Bahrain, with Kenyan ancestry, Maryam has always found inspiration in stories that explore migration in all its fullness as well as fractures. She is a recipient of Tisch's inaugural HEAR US award, designed to celebrate and advance student projects that center BIPOC voices, and her previous short film, Birdwatching, was an official selection at the International Film Festival of South Asia (IFFSA’21) and the Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF44). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/1631090980437-Y8OXLNFSAZJ4079QV7RZ/Capture.jpg Film - SWEET REFUGE - Sara Balghonaim Producer Sara Balghonaim is a Saudi filmmaker based between Riyadh and New York. She is currently pursuing her M.F.A at New York University in Directing and Writing. Before her time at NYU, she worked for director Haifa Al Mansour as an Assistant Director on The Perfect Candidate. She was also an Assistant Director on several notable Saudi films like The Rat, The Last Visit, and Black Sand. In 2019, Sara starred in Dunya’s Day, winner of the Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Sara is currently in post-production for Aydarous & Me, a short film she recently directed and wrote at NYU. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/1600021096852-0AUN70GJXIP433C61XOC/Profile%2Bpicture.jpg Film - SWEET REFUGE - Ayah Producer Ayah is a Palestinian-Bahraini filmmaker and producer based in Brooklyn, NY. She leverages her tech background and her commitment to diversity in the media to highlight underrepresented voices. She co-produced DUNYA’S DAY, which won the short film Jury Award for International Fiction at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Her short documentary, BALADNA screened at the 2019 DOC NYC film festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/1631092582155-PAEOMMETHK9OMF5VER8W/Capture.JPG Film - SWEET REFUGE - Chheangkea Leng Cinematographer Chheangkea Leng is a Cambodian-American filmmaker based in New York, NY. He is currently in his third year as a Dean’s Fellow in the NYU Tisch Graduate Film program where he specializes in writing/directing and cinematography. Prior to film school, Chheangkea received his Bachelor degree in Architectural Design from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He put those visual skills to practice at NYU, having served as the cinematographer for several short films: Memory Frame, Suga, A Kind of Crime, and Two or More. Chheangkea dreams of creating a cinematic world full of complex individuals who have never seen themselves on screen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/1631092846764-56C4FBSQ7POFUVOLT39T/Capture.JPG Film - SWEET REFUGE - Rhea D'Souza Production Designer Rhea D'Souza is a production designer from Mumbai, India with an innate desire to birth worlds by balancing the honesty of humanity with the magic of film making. An architect of dreams, she thrives in collaborations with multi-disciplinary artists, always allowing the story to guide her process. After completing her undergraduate degree, she worked on Bollywood films like Gully Boy, A Death in the Gunj, Tumhari Sulu etc. and on commercials and photoshoots for brands like Nestle, Vogue, United Colors of Benetton etc. Currently based in New York, she has completed her masters in Production Design from NYU Tisch School of the Arts (2021). https://www.10mils.com/film/cousins monthly 0.5 2025-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/4aef7b4d-25ae-4c78-a8a8-1f7057f942be/The_New_Yorker-Logo.wine.jpg Film - COUSINS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/87698a7e-aa19-46cc-a5fe-f51a6f941177/Sundance+logo.png Film - COUSINS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/9563378a-fb27-4585-8f98-0a837452e17c/CreativeCulture_JBFC_Logo_Transparency_BLACK.jpg Film - COUSINS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/5e95cd4c-030b-4741-8f48-6dfcad4d817c/FOFIF+logo.png Film - COUSINS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/2a9bd4e2-3e3d-453a-a55a-780a32aedd39/Screen+Shot+2022-09-16+at+7.12.04+PM.png Film - COUSINS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/cf45c8d1-159e-43d2-a180-297d4f900d04/Screen+Shot+2022-09-16+at+7.02.58+PM.png Film - COUSINS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/be1d0115-6d50-4748-a738-2be245f9fd82/Screen+Shot+2022-09-16+at+7.04.40+PM.png Film - COUSINS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/71b48549-94f7-49ce-bc82-930f63b96269/Screen+Shot+2022-09-16+at+7.06.44+PM.png Film - COUSINS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/8ba65c69-0994-4d31-86d3-d6d4c174e241/D29A9838.JPG Film - COUSINS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/bd62793b-90bd-46fb-af34-d2670e8adfe9/KD-FILM-34.jpg Film - COUSINS - Karina Dandashi Writer / Director Karina Dandashi is an Arab-American Muslim filmmaker born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She graduated from NYU in 2018 and has since worked in the independent film industry in development and production. Her films aim to explore nuances in identity through the intersection of family, religion, and culture in SWANA and Muslim communities in America. Karina is a 2020 Creative Culture Fellow at The Jacob Burns Film Center and a 2021 Sundance Ignite Fellow. She was featured in Marie Claire’s inaugural Creators Issue as one of the “Top 21 Creators to Watch”. She is currently writing her first feature film. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/fb285c4e-4309-4dfd-82ad-a701a5db9f66/AyaHamdan-COUSINS.jpg Film - COUSINS - Ayah Producer Ayah is a Palestinian-American producer based in Brooklyn, NY. She is a Film Independent Producing Lab and Rotterdam Lab fellow. Ayah founded 10 Mils Productions, through which she leverages her business background, the power of story, and her commitment to representation in the media to support storytellers from her communities. Ayah co-produced DUNYA'S DAY, which won the short film Jury Award for International Fiction at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. 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Her films explore nuances in identity through the intersection of family, religion, and culture in Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) and Muslim communities in America. Her work has been featured in numerous Oscar-qualifying festivals around the U.S. and has recently screened at The Museum of Modern Art. Karina is a 2020 Creative Culture Fellow at The Jacob Burns Film Center and a 2021 Sundance Ignite Fellow. She was featured in Marie Claire’s inaugural Creators Issue as one of the “Top 21 Creators to Watch” in 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/003ee2f7-a1ed-407f-9cf4-a472f9c71596/Aya%27s+Headshot.jpg Film - OUT OF WATER - Ayah Producer Ayah is a producer based in Brooklyn, NY. 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As a Kashmiri-Canadian born in Germany, raised in Bahrain, with Kenyan ancestry, Maryam finds inspiration in (im)migrant stories of warmth, joy and gentleness. She is a NYFA Awardee ’22, Gotham Marcie Bloom Fellow ’23 and Pillars Artist Fellow ‘24. Her latest narrative short, “Sweet Refuge”, was acquired by AMC+, has screened at 25+ festivals and won several awards, including a DGA Jury Award and Best of NFMLA Award. She is currently in post-production for her latest short film set in Bahrain, with support from the Doha Film Institute. She holds an MFA degree from NYU Tisch’s Graduate Film Program, where she was an Ang Lee Scholar and concentrated in writing and directing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/57c36a6d-da1f-4306-9c83-92bdfa602d60/Screenshot+2024-08-08+at+9.30.55%E2%80%AFAM.jpg Film - GRANDMA SWIM - Chheangkea Ieng Cinematographer CHHEANGKEA is a Cambodian-American filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. He obtained a Bachelor's degree in architecture from MIT and his MFA from NYU Tisch Graduate Film Program where he was a Dean’s Fellow. His latest short film, SKIN CAN BREATHE, is a finalist for the HBO Max APA Visionaries competition and is distributed by Max. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/e396c6db-ddb0-41c2-b376-c4ea034072cd/Screenshot+2024-08-08+at+9.31.02%E2%80%AFAM.jpg Film - GRANDMA SWIM - Rhea Dsouza Production Designer / Costume Designer Rhea D'Souza is a production designer originally from Mumbai, India with an innate desire to birth worlds by balancing the honesty of humanity with the magic of film making. Currently based in New York, she has completed her MFA in Production Design from NYU Tisch School of the Arts (2021). Her films have screened at various film festivals like Tribeca Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and Asian American International Film Festival Festival to name a few. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/d1176d02-df03-482b-a42e-3b1a8a29c87a/Screenshot+2024-08-09+at+11.47.12%E2%80%AFAM.jpg Film - GRANDMA SWIM - Lina Younes Art Director / Costume Designer Lina is a Palestinian Lebanese visual designer in theater, film, animation, and installations, and is based between Dubai, UAE, and NYC, USA. She received her MFA in design from NYU/Tisch where she enjoyed controlling traffic, mapping the skies, imagining the birds and inhabitants of the world in plays, dances, operas, and films. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/4bf51f48-01fc-40d1-944e-428f339e7460/Screenshot+2024-08-08+at+9.30.45%E2%80%AFAM.jpg Film - GRANDMA SWIM - Nicole Cone Producer Nicole Cone is a filmmaker based in the Greater New York area. She received her MFA in Film at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. While at NYU, Nicole has been the recipient of the WTC Johnson Scholarship, and a participant in the Creative Career Design Fellowship. She is a 2024 Feature Film Development Studio Fellow at the NYU Production Lab. Nicole works in digital media, television, and podcasts as a freelance producer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/c18fd54d-f6b7-45e2-a640-0c702de88311/Screenshot+2024-08-08+at+9.31.11%E2%80%AFAM.jpg Film - GRANDMA SWIM - Amna Alhawaj Producer Amna Alhawaj is a producer with over 10 years of experience across film and TV, media, and marketing; seasoned with leading multiple, high-profile film and commercial projects in Dubai, Cairo, Amman, and Manama. She has worked on several feature-length projects in the production department including Zero Dark Thirty, Transformers & Theeb (the first film from Jordan to be nominated for the Oscars). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/c0d73b16-93b1-4110-a49f-5033afc56cb0/RetreatPortraits_Aya02.png Film - GRANDMA SWIM - Ayah Producer Ayah is a Palestinian-American producer based in Brooklyn, NY. She is a Film Independent Producing Lab and The Gotham/Rotterdam Lab fellow. Ayah founded 10 Mils Productions, through which she leverages her business background and commitment to representation in the media to support storytellers from her communities. She Produced Maryam Mir’s SWEET REFUGE (2023) which was acquired by AMC+ and is now streaming on Omeleto and Nowness Asia. https://www.10mils.com/film/baba monthly 0.5 2025-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/20a6639d-fff3-47da-8e60-9d84c41fe872/BABAIMFINE_SXSW_Still_2+%282%29+%282%29.jpg Film - BABA I'M FINE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/239d9bd0-cbea-4688-ae44-365efb3a8ac3/BABAIMFINE_Overlook_Final+%286%29.jpg Film - BABA I'M FINE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/a5a31eaa-6656-451e-8cfd-faf2ece75a44/BABAIMFINE_Salems_Final+%282%29.jpg Film - BABA I'M FINE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/67dc8c83-99e8-40ea-bbac-e54885736df6/BABAIMFINE_SXSW_Still_3+%282%29+%282%29.jpg Film - BABA I'M FINE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/495bc4d9-9bff-44f2-b357-abb105627532/MAINSTILL_BABAIMFINE_Laurel+%283%29.jpg Film - BABA I'M FINE 2025 | USA | Narrative | 13 minutes | English WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY KARINA DANDASHI PRODUCED BY STEPHEN TURSELLI AND DAN DUTHIE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/e413c596-d93d-42ab-a19e-f28355ba8f90/KD-FILM-34.jpg Film - BABA I'M FINE - Karina Dandashi Writer / Director Karina Dandashi is a Syrian-American filmmaker born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Her films explore nuances in identity through the intersection of family, religion, and culture in Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) communities in America. Karina is a 2020 Creative Culture Fellow at The Jacob Burns Film Center and a 2021 Sundance Ignite Fellow. She was featured in Marie Claire’s inaugural Creators Issue as one of the “Top 21 Creators to Watch'' in 2022. Her feature film debut, OUT OF WATER, was chosen for the 2023 Film Independent Screenwriting Lab. You can find her latest short COUSINS on The New Yorker’s Screening Room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/47e0f1af-9f2d-4e40-9aea-f8404eaeb03a/Aya%27s+Headshot.jpg Film - BABA I'M FINE - Ayah Executive Producer Ayah is a producer based in Brooklyn, NY. She is a Film Independent Producing Lab and The Gotham/Rotterdam Lab fellow. Ayah founded 10 Mils Productions, through which she leverages her business background, the power of story, and her commitment to representation in the media to support storytellers from her communities. She produced Karina Dandashi’s DRESS UP (Short of the Week) and COUSINS (The New Yorker/Vimeo Staff Pick). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee7df99a79905635ac862a9/0594eb6e-b8e2-4ace-aff3-85f484276718/Baba+BTS+3.jpg Film - BABA I'M FINE - Stephen Turselli & Dan Duthie Producers Stephen and Dan are a filmmakers from Pittsburgh, PA. 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