Mansur K. Rashid

Mansur K. Rashid is a film festival award winning film director, producer, writer, editor, and photographer. He is gearing up for graduation in the spring of 2019, and this past summer Mansur was an NBCU intern with The Tonight Show: Starring Jimmy Fallon. He has four completed short films under his belt: the first-ever narrative short film addressing police brutality (16min), that's been selected in 17 film festivals; an unreleased short film about an openly gay Black boy (15 years old) searching for his father (30min); a 16mm Czech foreign language short about an older man coming to terms with his sexuality (10min); an unreleased experimental short film about artistic depression (8min). During the second semester of his freshman year at Howard, Mansur wrote, cast, and produced his first short film, achieving him 17 film festival laurels. He studied film during the spring semester of his sophomore year at the Film & TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU), which resulted in the direction and production of a 16mm short film. Most recently Mansur directed a multimedia crew of 15 students in the coverage of the DJ, Producer, and Artist showcase put on by the student radio station, WHBC 96.3 HD3's largest campus event: Howard's Hottest. He has taken photos for GAYA Magazine (Nov.-Dec. Issue), MEFEATER Online Publication, and for Project Runway Season 16 runner-up, Ayana Ife's fashion line. Four of his photographs have been displayed in Gallery 1280 at Atlanta's Woodruff Arts Center in Midtown. He also served two years as the student photographer for Howardwood, an event sponsored by BET and May Sister Entertainment to connect Howard University students to the entertainment industry. Mansur was the creator and co-curator of a photography exhibition at NYU in Abu Dhabi starring Howard University photographers' works: The Melanin Project. He recently curated and displayed photos at his senior photography exhibition called "IDYLL" involving 3 other senior photographers' works. He was also showcased with other Howard and DMV photographers, painters, creatives and artists in the The Underground Natives Coalition Showcase. In addition to his 17 film festival laurels, Mansur also holds two Howard University School of Communications Paul Robeson Awards: one for Creative Excellence in Photojournalism & another for Editing in a Film.