Mustapha Khan
Mustapha Khan is an American film and television director, best known for such films and television shows as Imagining America, Rocksteady, Sesame Street and The Electric Company. The son of a Caribbean immigrant, Khan graduated in 1980 from Moorestown Friends School. He graduated from Harvard University in 1984.
Mustapha Khan
- Name
- Mustapha Khan
- Birthplace
- United States
- Occupation
- Film director, producer
- Born
- 1901 · United States.
- Education
- Moorestown Friends School
- Honours
- Primetime Emmy Award
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Mustapha Khan is an American film and television director, best known for such films and television shows as Imagining America, Rocksteady, Sesame Street and The Electric Company. The son of a Caribbean immigrant, Khan graduated in 1980 from Moorestown Friends School. He graduated from Harvard University in 1984.
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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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- 1.Mustapha Khan. The New York Times.
- 2.Steve Potter. High-speed, Rocksteady. Harvard Magazine. July–August 2012.
- 3."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."
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