Muriel Naim is an Israeli-Iranian Director / Writer of film, television and theatre based in LA.

Muriel graduated with honors from Thelma Yellin School of Arts in Tel Aviv, where she mentored by Israeli-Lithuanian theater director Arthur Kogan. Her theatre production "Jubilee" was selected to be presented at the National Theatre. While studying in the MFA Film Directing program at CalArts, Naim wrote, directed and shot the five-minute short Javier. The film was selected to open the 2016 Annual Film Directors Showcase at REDCAT, and has since been distributed to several international companies. She graduated from the MFA Directing program at the AFI Conservatory, where she was awarded the Irwin & Sheila Allen Scholarship and mentored under Oscar-winning Director/Writer Asghar Farhadi. Her recent film Janek / Bastard received multiple directing awards and screened in 50+ film festival worldwide. She is currently developing an original TV series for A&E and is working with BSEG and BAFTA on a limited series for Amazon Studios. Muriel's films delve into the cores of the human condition, explore taboo, emotion and transgression through visceral storytelling, and provoke the classical narrative structure.