Episode 22: Khaula Kai Mahmood
Podcast Art for Season 2 Episode 22 with Khaula Kai Mahmood
Everything that my guest, Khaula Kai Mahmood, makes sounds easy is actually really, really hard. Making films is hard. Speaking Pashto and Farsi is hard. Making a film about veterans is extremely difficult. But she does all of these things...so easily.
Khaula has lived around the globe, gotten a degree in architecture, worked in tech, but she's now a filmmaker and on this podcast, talking about raising money for her film FRAYED FLAGS. She shares her experience growing up the daughter of a veteran and how that sheds light on the stories she wants to tell about minority veterans in the United States.
It's a story mostly untold, and why we need filmmakers like Khaula more than ever before.
Khaula's Indie Film Highlight: Aisha T Kumari
Links:
FRAYED FLAGS Seed & Spark
Khaula's Instagram
FRAYED FLAGS' Instagram
A note on the use of generative AI for the podcast cover art: It was meant as a fun lark, a way to offer visual consistency, but there's nothing fun about destroying the jobs of creators...when you are a podcast built around helping creators. I am certain there are people who didn't listen or didn't appear on the show because of it; I'm not sure anyone chose to be here because of it. So that's an easy call.
The partying cat of Episode 20 seems like the time to end using generative AI in any way for the podcast. I hope that we can find a relationship with a cover artist in the future.