“My camera lens illuminates historically excluded lead characters. By normalizing intersectional storytelling, and empowering generations to dismantle systems that exclude certain communities, we can carve a record to balance the scales.”
Nasreen Alkhateeb is an award-winning cinematographer whose work illuminates historically excluded voices by normalizing intersectional storytelling. By centering topics including racial injustice, disability inequity, marginalized genders, stigmatized sexual identities, the first woman Vice President, and the largest telescope NASA has constructed, Alkhateeb thrives as a leader in films that shift our culture. Her ability to motivate audiences is a direct result of approaching each story through intersectional identities.
Her lens has captured the Emmy Award series Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, Netflix’s Unknown Cosmic Time Machine, Kamala Harris during her Vice Presidential campaign, Vogue’s Supreme Models: Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Fashion, and Apple+'s Dear… episode with Billy Porter. Her credits include Apple, Netflix, FX, IFC, AMC, United Nations, NASA, GitHub, Tribeca Film Festival, and the Women’s March. Forbes described her as “breaking barriers.”
Alkhateeb is a Disability Futures Fellow, Center for Cultural Power Disruptors Fellow, Sundance Institute Accessible Futures Intensive Fellow, American Society of Cinematographers Visions Mentee, an alumni of the Disability Belongs Lab, the recipient of the Wild Card Award by NASA peers, and a fellow of the WIF Creative Circle.