Ayesha Abouelazm is a 2017 Columbia College Graduate in Cinema Directing. Currently, she teaches film production and directing courses at Loyola University Chicago. She has written and directed many short films and has co-directed her first feature, One Woman Hamlet (2021). Her shorts include Love Is A Gray Area (2016), Utterance (2016), The Girl in the Blue Bra (2017) Not On My Shoulders (2017) and Otherwise a Woman (2019).

Ayesha gravitates towards stories that are controversial, that focus on underdogs and stories that unveil issues which most people are afraid to talk about. The Girl in the Blue Bra is one of her more personal works and has been shown in over 25 film festivals so far, where it won “Joint Best North American Short” at the Asia Southeast Film Festival and best long-short film at the Kinodrome Film Festival. She is currently working on a feature length version of her award-winning short.