Amman Abbasi
Amman Abbasi is a Pakistani American film director and composer and filmmaker.
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. 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. The documentary was premiered at AFI Docs. 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 and was featured in the Narrative Spotlight section.Amman Abbasi's first credited work as a film composer was for the 2009 documentary Warrior Champions: From Baghdad to Beijing. He has scored his own feature films Dayveon and Yasmeen’s Element and worked as a music consultant for the Halloween film franchise. In 2023, Abbasi co-composed the score for the horror film The Exorcist: Believer 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. His compositions have also appeared in other films, including The Wall, Tragedy, Shelter, Meth Storm, Saba and Yasmeen's Element.