Eid Mubarak

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.

Mahnoor graduated Summa Cum Laude from UCLA in 2017, with a major in Design | Media Arts and a minor in Film, TV, and Digital Media. 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. In November 2022, she was a fellow 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 acquired by Creator+ as part of their inaugural Flip the Script Short Film Fund, and is currently 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, making the film Oscar-qualifying. At the 2023 Children’s Film Festival Seattle, the film won the Youth Jury, Professional Jury, and Audience awards for Best Live-Action Short.

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 feminine 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.