The founder of MTV World, filmmaker and photographer based in New York, Nusrat Durrani moves like a creative phantom through disciplines, industries, cities, and mediums. As an MTV executive, he has received numerous accolades, including being honoured by President Obama for his films about Native American youth. Nusrat’s vast repertoire of visual storytelling includes the critically-acclaimed Rebel Music series and is infused with a desire to give voice to the voiceless and bring the beauty, colour and diversity of global pop culture to the West. His films include Madly, the award-winning omnibus of unusual love stories from around the world, directed by Anurag Kashyap, Mia Wasikowska, Sion Sono, Gael Garcia Bernal, and Sebastian Silva; and An American Prayer, a blistering, poetic commentary on the U.S. during the Trump Presidency, pandemic, racial uprising, and the loss of his mother. Nusrat is working on a new film in India and three book projects, including a collection of short fiction and a book of portrait photography.
His books:
Take this Longing
Terrestrials