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Nadia Shihab
Lives and works in Oakland, California
SCREENINGS & EXHIBITIONS
Liverpool Arab Film Festival, Liverpool, UK, 2020
Kassel Dokfest, Kassel, Germany, 2019
San Diego Asian Film Festival, San Diego, CA, 2019
Virginia Film Festival, Charlottesville, VA, 2019
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, Hot Springs, AK, 2019
Arab Film Festival, Oakland, CA, 2019
Flatland Film Festival, Lubbock, TX , 2019
Austin Asian American Film Festival, Austin, TX, 2019
CAAMFest, San Francisco, CA, 2019
DOXA, Vancouver, Canada, 2019
Ecrans du Reel, Beirut, Lebanon, 2019
Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, Los Angeles, 2019
Dallas International Film Festival, Dallas, TX, 2019
Ashland Independent Film Festival, Ashland, OR, 2019
Indie Grits, South Carolina, 2019
Houston Cinema Arts Film Festival, Houston, TX, 2018
New Orleans Film Festival, New Orleans, LA, 2018
Atlas Cinema, AFAC Film Week, Algiers, Algeria, 2018
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 2017
Sursock Museum of Contemporary Art, Beirut, Lebanon, 2017
Spectacle Cinema, New York, 2014
AFAC Film Week, Beirut, Lebanon, 2014
Roxie Theater, San Francisco, 2014
Arab American National Museum, Detroit, MI, 2014
MIZNA Twin Cities Film Festival, Minneapolis, MN, 2014
Gulf Film Festival, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2014
Ars Independent Film Festival, Katowice, Poland, 2013
Bird’s Eye View Film Festival, London, 2013
Cinema du Reel, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2013
Dubai International Film Festival, Dubai, UAE, 2012
SOUND PERFORMANCE
Infra/Extra, Berkeley, CA, 2020
Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, 2015
Babelab Gallery, Oakland, 2014
Fort Mason Gallery, San Francisco, 2014
Artists Television Access, San Francisco, 2013
De Young Museum, San Francisco, 2013
Project Artaud, San Francisco, 2012
FM Gallery, Oakland, 2012
Anno Domini Gallery, San Jose, 2011
Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, 2010
Santa Cruz Looping Festival, Santa Cruz, 2009
Rowan Morrison Gallery, Oakland, 2009
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
Awardee Independent Spirit Award, Truer than Fiction Award, 2020
Awardee Special Jury Award, San Diego Asian American Film Festival, 2019
Awardee Special Jury Award, LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, 2019
Awardee Best Documentary Feature, Austin Asian American Film Festival, 2019
Awardee Special Jury Mention for Best Documentary, New Orleans Film Festival, 2018
Fellow/Grantee Firelight Documentary Lab, 2017
Grantee Center for Asian American Media, 2017
Grantee Sundance Documentary Fund, 2017
Artist in Residency MacDowell Colony, 2017
Fellow MacDowell Colony, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 2017
Grantee Tribeca Film Institute, 2016
Fellow IFP Independent Filmmaker Documentary Lab, 2016
Fellow Flaherty Film Seminar Fellowship, George Stoney Fellowship, 2015
Artist in Residency Djerassi Residency, 2014
Fellow Djerassi Residency, Kenneth Rainin Foundation Honorary Fellowship, 2014
Grantee Center for Community Innovation - Investing in Artists Award, 2014
Grantee Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, 2012
Grantee Pacific Pioneer Fund, 2011
Fellow BAVC New Media Mediamaker Fellowship, 2011
Grantee ITVS Diversity Development Fund, 2010
Artist in Residency San Francisco Film Society, Filmhouse Residency, 2010
Fellow Texas Tech University, Formby Archival Research Fellowship, 2009
Grantee California Planning Foundation Scholarship, 2008
Fellow UC Berkeley Dept of City Planning Departmental Fellowship, 2008
SPEAKING & PRESENTATIONS
Asian American Journalists Association, Virtual Panel Talk, Annual Conference, Aug 2020
Liverpool Arab Arts Festival, Virtual Artist Talk, July 2020
Yemeni Youth Media Project, Artist Talk, Arab Film & Media Institute, 2019
The Representation Project & Global Girl Media, Artist Talk, Arise HS, Oakland, 2019
LA Asian Pacific FF Panel Discussion, Japanese American National Museum, May 2019
Roots & Reflections World Women’s Day, Panel Talk, Brava Theater, March 8, 2019 SF
Bad Feminists Making Film, Artist Panel & Live Podcast, MACLA Gallery, San Jose, 2018
Meet the Makers, Artist Panel, Houston Cinema Arts Festival, Houston, TX , 2018
Cinematic Sanctuaries, Artist Panel, Greater New Orleans Foundation, New Orleans, LA, 2018
On Personal Filmmaking, Oakland International High School Media Program, 2018
Artist Talk, MacDowell Colony, 2017
Artist Talk, Djerassi Residency, 2014
PRESS & INTERVIEWS
Jaddoland: An intergenerational portrait of love, (land), and loss, The New Arab, June 2020
The Liminal Echoes of the Displaced Soul, Film Inquiry, May 2020
Our Own Creative Processes are Intertwined, World Channel Interview, May 2020
Spirit Award Winners: The Complete List, Variety, Feb 2020
Awards Party Carpet Chat with Nadia Shihab, Feb 2020
2020 Spirit Award Winners List, Indiewire, Feb 2020
Kelly Reichardt, Producer Mollye Asher among Spirit Award Winners, Hollywood Reporter, Jan 2020
Films that Transcend Southern Stereotypes, Hyperallergic, Nov 2019
World Channel Pursues Role as Early Stage Co-Producer, CURRENT, Sept 2019
Texas Made Documentaries Shine at Austin Asian American Film Festival, Sightlines, May 2019
AIFF Teen Press Interview with Nadia Shihab, Ashland Independent FF, April 2019
Filmmaker Revisits her Lubbock Life in Jaddoland, Houston Chronicle, Nov. 2018
WRITING
Doing the Work, Podcast Review, Society for Cultural Anthropology, July 30, 2020
Enclosures, Wolfman New Life Quarterly, Issue 5, Aug 2019
Double Exposure: Nadia Shihab on the Making of Jaddoland, Center for Asian American Media, Oct. 2018
What Stories we Long to Hear, We Will Write Ourselves, Firelight Media (Medium), May 15, 2018
EDUCATION & RESEARCH
2009 - Master of City & Regional Planning | University of California at Berkeley
2006 - Fulbright Scholar to Turkey
2003 - BA Sociology, BA Humanities | University of Texas at Austin