Manaal Khan is a Middle East raised, South Asian narrative and branded content filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She moved to LA  to attend UCLA's School of Theater, Film, and Television, with a concentration in directing. Manaal has directed commercials for brands such as the photo app Fotofami and the air purifier Mila and has most recently directed US Olympian Haylie McCleney for Easton Softball. She also directed a music video for Canadian artist Rosette Luv. A TV directing mentee from Ryan Murphy's Half Initiative, the latest of her four narrative short form projects includes the episode Winners of the Amazon Prime Anthology After Masks that has won and been nominated for over 15 awards in the festival circuit.