Ahmen Khawaja is a British-Pakistani filmmaker. Following her passion for storytelling and film, she went to work in Broadcast journalism and documentary filmmaking after obtaining her MA in International Journalism in 2013. She has worked for the BBC as a digital journalist for almost a decade. In 2022, her idea for a documentary was short-listed for a mentorship grant by academy-award winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy in partnership with the Scottish Documentary Institute. She directed her first documentary, ‘My mother’s daughter’ in 2022.