Nadia Shihab is a filmmaker and artist working primarily in the realm of creative nonfiction. Her projects emerge through processes that are relational and improvisational, and have taken the form of films, sound works, collage and writing.

Her feature-length film JADDOLAND was awarded five festival jury awards including the Independent Spirit "Truer than Fiction" Award and went on to broadcast for four seasons on US public television.

Her work has been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou, Berkeley Art Museum, Sursock Museum, Walker Art Center, Zilkha Gallery, e-flux, Black Star Film Festival, Images Festival, DOXA, Cairo International Film Festival, Camden International Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, LAAPFF, and Kasseler Dokfest, among others. She was a Fulbright Scholar to Turkey and a Flaherty Film Seminar Fellow. She has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony and Djerassi Residency and her work has received support from the Sundance Documentary Fund, Firelight Media, Tribeca Film Institute, Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, Center for Asian American Media, and Bay Area Video Coalition.

Nadia’s creative practice is preceded by over a decade of work as a community practitioner. She holds a Masters of City & Regional Planning (2009) and an MFA in Art Practice (2021), both from the University of California at Berkeley. She was raised in west Texas by immigrant parents from Iraq and Yemen and is an Assistant Professor in Film in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University.