Javed Rezayee
Instructor Consultant
About Javed
Javed Rezayee is the Story Producer of the National Geographic film Retrograde and TIME’s Ayenda. He’s a writer, developmental editor, and script and story consultant. He’s worked with Academy Award-nominated director Matthew Heineman and Oscars-winning director Carol Dysinger. Other works include Frontline’s Opium Brides, One Bullet Afghanistan, and Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl). Javed’s writings have appeared in The New York Times, The Hill, and Open Society Foundations. He’s authored an introduction to The Forbidden Reel (Daylight 2014) and a few short stories. He is currently working on a memoir, novels, and screenplays. Javed graduated from Tufts University in 2010, as an adult student, where he now teaches a featured course on the art of live storytelling: The Power of Story.