FEELOO
LA-BASED ACTRESS
& WRITER
Feeloo Aslam is a Los Angeles-based actress, writer, and [former] producer of Oscar and Emmy-winning documentary films.
Feeloo was born in the motherland, Lahore, Pakistan, quickly moved to Zambia, and then alternated her formative years between London and Greenwich, CT (ugh). All that moving between countries, cultures, and languages was...“difficult,” but also wonderful manna for her acting life.
Feeloo launched her acting career with a starring role in Disney’s first Muslim film, “American Eid” (available on Disney+).
She is fluent in English and Urdu/Hindi, is an experienced dancer and choreographer, and has trained at BGB Studios, The Groundlings, and Berg Studios.
In a past life Feeloo (aka: Fazeelat) was an award-winning documentary producer, journalist, and correspondent. She co-produced the documentary short, “Saving Face” (HBO), which won the 2012 Academy Award and 2013 Emmy for “Best Documentary.”
She was the first female correspondent/producer on VICE on HBO. Her story on modern-day slavery in Pakistan won Vice its first-ever Emmy.
She also was a correspondent for Channel 4’s “Unreported World,” where her story on water shortages in Pakistan won the Foreign Press Award for “Environment Story of the Year.”
Feeloo has been profiled in The Cut and spoken at universities across the world, including Wellesley (her alma mater), Harvard, Yale and LUMS.
PHOTOS
“As a woman in documentary, I felt like in order to be taken seriously I needed to dress down. It’s an unfortunate double standard that what we wear can dictate our legitimacy or the perception of our intelligence. I’m not looking for an outfit that impresses; I try to be invisible. After ten years in the field, I’m transitioning out, so I can express myself sartorially as I do already with my words, images, and ideas.”
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PAST LIFE
In a past life Feeloo produced and was a correspondent for major news outlets, including Vice on HBO, the BBC, Channel 4 UK, Dan Rather Reports, The New York Times, Al Jazeera, and PBS Frontline. As a producer, she helped launch both “Field of Vision” for Charlotte Cooke and Laura Poitras and the News Video division of Buzzfeed.
She profiled Syeda Fatima, who rescued 80,000 modern-day slaves from brick kilns in Pakistan, interviewed both the Taliban and survivors of drone attacks, infiltrated crisis pregnancy centers in Texas, and showed how teenagers in South Central LA had higher PTSD rates than returning military veterans. Her work has won an Oscar, multiple Emmy’s, and her coverage of the Taliban's youth recruitment won an Alfred I. duPont Award for "Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story.”
Her film projects have screened at major international film festivals including Sundance, Toronto, Tribeca, and Hot Docs.