Nadia Shihab is an award-winning filmmaker and artist whose work explores the personal, the relational, and the diasporic. Her first feature-length documentary JADDOLAND was awarded five festival jury awards, including the Independent Spirit "Truer than Fiction" Award in 2020. Described as "intimate, experimental and beautifully playful", the film went on to broadcast for two seasons on the America Reframed series on US public television.  

Nadia was raised in Texas by immigrant parents from Iraq & Yemen and spent a decade as a community practitioner in the San Francisco Bay Area before earning her MFA in Art Practice at UC Berkeley in 2021. She is a Fulbright scholar and is currently an Assistant Professor in Film in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University.

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Film

Jaddoland

Program Affiliation

Documentary Lab

Cohort Year

2015-2017

Website

nadiashihab.com