About

Mahera Omar graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Arts in Biology. After a brief stint doing laboratory research on the structure of proteins at the Tufts University Department of Biochemistry, she moved back to the city by the sea, Karachi. She has produced numerous TV shows in Boston, most notably ‘Ek Saher’, a series of conversations between Indians and Pakistanis in the Greater Boston area. While in college, she co-produced and directed ‘Dispatches from the Loo’, an independent feature film shot entirely in a loo. Her short film ‘Piano‘ premiered at the 3rd International KaraFilm Festival. Her other short films include ‘Makhan Toast‘, ‘Time’s fun when you’re having flies’, ‘Perspectives in a cook’s life’, and ‘New York, New York’. She produced and directed a weekly show on animals for Geo Television, and is the co-founder of the Pakistan Animal Welfare Society. She’s currently working on a travel series for a local television channel in Pakistan, and has been recording the oral tradition of folk songs about life during the pre-partition times of the Indian Sub-Continent.

Email: mahera.omar@gmail.com

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