Safiyah Chiniere has a deep love for storytelling and filming. She uses film to amplify the stories and the voices of people of color, women, and femmes. The specific space of Safiyah's subject matter provides a firm footing for developing a visual style necessary to operate within the fertile interior spaces of these communities. It presents a stimulating and refreshing approach to capturing faces, bodies, and various expressions of intimacy, slowing the pace and magnifying spaces to highlight what is so often overlooked, dismissed, or delegitimized, all while maintaining wholehearted, sincere storytelling. Safiyah's short film You don't have to like me premiered on Nowness and has been selected for prestigious festivals such as BFI, Frameline, Newest, and Inside Out Toronto, leading to its first screenings internationally and domestically.  Being self-taught and finding her love for filmmaking through watching her grandmother document the family, Safiyah has taken up the mantle and elevated it while navigating the industry on her own. Her work has taken her to many different heights. Working with TIME, Shea Moisture, Essence, and being the director of photography on a Documentary called The Solace of Sisterhood, which premiered at Tribeca in 2024.

Safiyah's new project, All for Her, is a film that centers on a queer identifying woman and an elderly woman with dementia. Extracting from Safiyah's real-life experience with her grandmother. The intimacy and delicacy of womanhood in its most valid form, with care, is what Safiyah's work strives for as she aims to tell the forgotten stories, the ones that are hard to tell, and bring awareness to underrepresented communities in places where women are silenced. In her words, the only way to shift others' minds is to say the uncomfortable things.