Fawzia Mirza is a queer, South Asian, Muslim filmmaker. Mirza’s feature film The Queen of My Dreams screened in competition at TIFF, SXSW, and BFI London Film Festival, winning over fourteen awards. It received five Canadian Academy Screen Award nominations, winning two, and she was named Best Feature Director by the Directors’ Guild of Canada. Mirza also co-wrote and starred in the award-winning, SXSW world premiere feature Signature Move. She was a TIFF Share Her Journey Fellow, an SFFILM Rainin Fellow, a Yes and Laughter Lab Winner, an ISF Scholarship Recipient, a Tribeca Institute Alum, a Ryan Murphy Half Initiative alum, has participated in the TIFF Screenwriter and Filmmaker Lab, and her feature screenplay Heirloom was on the Black List’s inaugural Muslim List. She has been a mentor for the Queer Frames Screenwriting Lab, Film Fatales Forward, 1497 Features Lab, Washington Filmworks, OTV, The Pillars Fund, and has been a Sundance Creative Advisor. She was a 2025 Sundance/Disney Artist Fellow and in The Squad's 2024–2025 cohort, a mentorship of the DGA Women's Steering Committee. Her award-winning short films have screened all over the world, and she's recently executive produced documentaries including Survivor Made with Padma Lakshmi and Coming Around, featuring Palestinian activist and scholar Eman Ebdalhadi. She executive produced Shehrezad Maher’s The Curfew, which had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Mirza wrote the first episode of network television to feature a queer Muslim character on The Red Line, and recently directed on the new Hulu comedy series Deli Boys.