Abubakar Khan is a producer and consultant that is focused on productions in the USA, Canada and the Middle East. He is currently producing the fiction feature “Running Dry,” an eco-thriller in Turkey and Saudi Arabia. He is also producing the fiction feature "Diary of a Muslim Cynic" supported by the Sundance Institute. He recently completed production management on the feature film Mustache (Dir. Imran J. Khan), which won the Audience Award at SXSW 2023. He was the head of Business Affairs for the feature Queen of Bones (Dir. Robert Budreau/Produced by Appian Way). He was the Business Affairs Associate for Lark Productions (Law and Order Toronto, Allegiance, Farming For Love). He has also produced twelve short films. In addition, he is the former vice-chair of the Canadian Media Producers Association, a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre Norman Jewison Producers’ Lab, and a resident of the Canadian Academy Executive Residency Program.

He is also the co founder of Diaspora Creative, a production company based in Vancouver, Canada. Since 2016, through Diaspora Creative, Abubakar and his team excelled in creating strong story based content focused on people of color/minorities and their untold stories. 

In his earlier years he worked extensively with the interfaith community of Canada by planning multiple citywide rallies such as the Love Over Fear Rally against Islamophobia and the Love Over Fear Rally against Racial Discrimination. This work in turn led him to being a keynote speaker at the 2018 Parliament of World Religions in Toronto. He has worked on multiple political campaigns on the Federal and Provincial level, while also being a candidate for the Vancouver City council election of 2018.