“My work is about embracing humanity. Whether I’m shooting a movie or a commercial, kids or adults, muppets or manatees, celebrities or everyday people — my job is to illuminate what’s beautiful inside of us all.”
Mustapha Khan is an Emmy Award-winning director of original narrative, documentary, and television films.
His diverse credits include: Rocksteady, a coming-of-age, action movie about an aspiring stock car racer; House on Fire, an award-winning documentary about AIDS in Black America; scores of national television commercials featuring celebrities and real people; dozens of commissioned films promoting justice and social change; and twenty years of uniquely funky kids films and specials for Sesame Street and other children’s television shows. Khan’s breakthrough film Reflections of a Native Son, about a troubled teen growing up in the South Bronx, is on permanent display at the American Museum of Television and Radio. Mustapha Khan is a graduate of Harvard University and a member of the Directors Guild of America. He is represented by the Gersh Agency.