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Nadia Shihab
Lives and works in Oakland, California
SCREENINGS & EXHIBITIONS
2021 Middle East Now, Florence, Italy
2020 Arab Film Festival, Tübingen, Germany
2020 Arab Festival, Washington, DC
2020 Liverpool Arab Film Festival, Liverpool, UK
2019 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
2018 Houston Cinema Arts Film Festival, Houston, TX
2018 New Orleans Film Festival, New Orleans, LA
2018 Atlas Cinema, AFAC Film Week, Algiers, Algeria
2017 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2017 Sursock Museum of Contemporary Art, Beirut, Lebanon
2014 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
2013 Ars Independent Film Festival, Katowice, Poland
2013 Bird’s Eye View Film Festival, London
2013 Cinema du Reel, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2012 Dubai International Film Festival, Dubai, UAE
SOUND PERFORMANCE
2020 Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2015 Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco
2014 B4bel4b Gallery, Oakland
2014 Fort Mason Gallery, San Francisco
2013 Artists Television Access, San Francisco
2013 De Young Museum, San Francisco
2012 Artists Television Access (ATA), San Francisco
2012 Project Artaud, San Francisco
2012 FM Gallery, Oakland
2011 Anno Domini Gallery, San Jose
2010 Kaleidoscope, San Francisco
2010 Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
2009 Santa Cruz Looping Festival, Santa Cruz
2009 Rowan Morrison Gallery, Oakland
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2020 Independent Spirit Award, Truer than Fiction Award
2019 Special Jury Award, San Diego Asian American Film Festival
2019 Special Jury Award, LA Asian Pacific Film Festival
2019 Best Documentary Feature, Austin Asian American Film Festival
2018 Special Jury Mention for Best Documentary, New Orleans Film Festival
2017 Firelight Documentary Lab Fellowship
2017 Center for Asian American Media Grant
2017 Sundance Institute Documentary Fund
2017 MacDowell Colony, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
2016 Tribeca Film Institute All Access Grant
2016 IFP Independent Filmmaker Documentary Lab
2015 Flaherty Film Seminar Fellowship, George Stoney Fellowship
2014 Djerassi Residency, Kenneth Rainin Foundation Honorary Fellowship
2014 Center for Community Innovation - Investing in Artists Award
2012 Arab Fund for Arts and Culture
2011 Pacific Pioneer Fund Award
2011 BAVC New Media Mediamaker Fellowship
2010 ITVS Diversity Development Fund Grant
2009 Texas Tech University, Formby Archival Research Fellowship
2008 California Planning Foundation Scholarship
2008 UC Berkeley Dept of City Planning Departmental Fellowship
2006 Fulbright Research Fellowship (Turkey)
SPEAKING & PRESENTATIONS
2020 "Sonic Routes and Passages of Repair", UC Berkeley, Artist Talk, Virtual
2020 UCLA School of Film, Theater and Television, Artist Talk, Virtual
2020 San Francisco Film School, Artist Talk, Virtual
2020 Asian American Journalists Association, Panel Discussion, Annual Conference, Virtual
2020 Liverpool Arab Arts Festival, Artist Talk, Virtual
2019 Yemeni Youth Media Project, Artist Talk, Arab Film & Media Institute, Oakland
2019 The Representation Project & Global Girl Media, Artist Talk, Oakland
2019 LA Asian Pacific Film Festival Panel Discussion, Japanese American National Museum, LA
2019 Roots & Reflections, World Women’s Day Panel Talk, Brava Theater, San Francisco
2018 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
2018 "On Personal Filmmaking", Oakland International High School Media Program
2017 Artist Talk, MacDowell Colony
2014 Artist Talk, Djerassi Residency
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
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2017 Artist in Residency MacDowell Colony
2014 Artist in Residency Djerassi Residency
2010 Artist in Residency San Francisco Film Society, Filmhouse Residency
EDUCATION
2021 Master of Fine Arts, University of California at Berkeley
2009 Master of City & Regional Planning, University of California at Berkeley
2003 Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, University of Texas at Austin