Mustapha Khan is an American film and television director, best known for such films and television shows as ''
Imagining America
''Imagining America'' is a 1989 anthology film consisting of four shorts with the central theme being life in the United States. It was originally broadcast on the PBS television series ''American Playhouse''.
Overview
''Imagining America'' is ...
'', ''Rocksteady'',
''
Sesame Street
''Sesame Street'' is an American educational children's television series that combines live-action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry. It is produced by Sesame Workshop (known as the Children's Television Workshop until June 2000) a ...
'' and ''
The Electric Company
''The Electric Company'' is an American educational children's television series produced by the Children's Television Workshop (CTW, now known as Sesame Workshop). It was co-created by Paul Dooley, Joan Ganz Cooney, and Lloyd Morrisett. The ...
''.
The son of a Caribbean immigrant, Khan graduated in 1980 from
Moorestown Friends School
Moorestown Friends School (also known as MFS) is a private, coeducational Quaker day school located in Moorestown, in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the 2019–20 school year, the school had an enrollment of 652 student ...
.
"Upper School Music Retreat Welcomes Special Guests for Clinics, Film Screening"
Moorestown Friends School, March 9, 2020. Accessed May 18, 2020. "In addition, Mustapha Khan ’80 presented a special screening of his documentary ''Song for Our People'', which is currently traveling the festival circuit and earning praise from audiences."
He won a 1992 Daytime Emmy for his ''Sesame Street'' short film ''Dancing Shoes'' and also obtained a Primetime Emmy nomination for work on '' Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration''.
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American film directors
American television directors
American film producers
African-American film directors
African-American television directors
African-American film producers
Living people
Moorestown Friends School alumni
Primetime Emmy Award winners
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century African-American people
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