Zaid Abu Hamdan

Zaid Abu Hamdan is a Jordanian-born filmmaker. Zaid served as a writer and director for 52 episodes of Arabic Sesame Street.

His feature film Daughters of Abdul-Rahman premiered to a global audience at the 43rd Cairo International Film Festival, where the film won the ‘Youssef Cherif Rizkallah Award,’ otherwise known as the ‘Audience Award’ and is granted to only one film among the many within the international competition.

The film was also selected as a finalist project for a Tribeca Film Institute grant and will screen at the much anticipated Saudi Arabia 2021 Red Sea Film Festival.
He is the founder of Zaha Productions, which produced the highly acclaimed short film, Baram & Hamza, among others.