Amman Abbasi

Amman Abbasi is a Pakistani American film director and composer and filmmaker.^[1][2][3]

Amman Abbasi
Citizenship	Pakistani American
Occupation(s)	Film director and composer
Years active	2009–present

Career

As a film director, Abbasi’s first feature film was Dayveon. The film had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and was also showcased at the Berlin International Film Festival, in 2017.^[4][5] In 2021, Abbasi directed Udaan, a short documentary about Baneen Khan, a female student from Karachi who begins her studies at Black River Technical College.^[6][7] The documentary was premiered at AFI Docs.^[8] Abbasi returned in 2024 with his second feature, Yasmeen’s Element, a 76-minute drama set in the Hunza Valley region of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. The film had its world premiere at the 2024 South by Southwest (SXSW) and was featured in the Narrative Spotlight section.^[9][10]

Amman Abbasi's first credited work as a film composer was for the 2009 documentary Warrior Champions: From Baghdad to Beijing.^[1] He has scored his own feature films Dayveon and Yasmeen’s Element and worked as a music consultant for the Halloween film franchise.^[11] In 2023, Abbasi co-composed the score for the horror film The Exorcist: Believer alongside with David Wingo; the work was later nominated at the 14th Hollywood Music in Media Awards in Best Original Score in a Horror Film category.^[12][13][14] His compositions have also appeared in other films, including The Wall (2010), Tragedy (2015), Shelter (2016), Meth Storm (2017),^[15] Saba (2024) and Yasmeen's Element (2024).^[16]