About

Mahnoor Euceph is a Pakistani-American writer and director. She immigrated to Los Angeles from Pakistan at age eight and quickly learned that nobody else cared about cricket.

She graduated Summa Cum Laude from UCLA in 2017, with a major in Design | Media Arts and a minor in Film, TV, and Digital Media. She spent one semester in London studying Art and Business at Sotheby's Institute of Art, one semester in the Middle East studying the Israel-Palestine conflict with the Olive Tree Initiative, and another semester in Pakistan to work with Pakistan’s sole Oscar-winner, filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy. 

In 2021, she received her Master’s of Fine Arts from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts in Film and Television Production, with an emphasis in comedy writing and directing, and production design. During her MFA, she worked as Art Director on American Eid, Disney’s first ever Muslim story, which is currently streaming on Disney+.

In November 2022, she participated in the Islamic Scholarship Fund’s inaugural Muslim Centered Writers’ Lab, with support from Extracurricular and The Black List, for her feature film, Queen of Diamonds.

Her professional directorial debut, a short film called Eid Mubarak, was produced by Creator+ as part of their inaugural Flip the Script Short Film Fund, and is screening in festivals all over the country. It won the Jury Award for Live Action Short at the New York International Children's Film Festival, qualifying it for the Oscars. In December 2023, Eid Mubarak was predicted by Variety to be shortlisted and nominated for for Best Live Action Short Film at the 96th Academy Awards.

Mahnoor is interested in exploring entertaining stories about the South Asian diaspora through the female gaze. Her work is injected with humor and features a hyper stylized sensibility informed by design and fine art. With her films, she seeks to decolonize the mind by empowering audiences to engage in radical self-love. And if she can make you laugh while doing it, even better. 

Read more about Eid Mubarak in Character Media, Variety, and Deadline. Read more about Queen of Diamonds in Variety.

To get in touch, shoot an email over to: noor.euceph@gmail.com