Zaid Abu HamdanDIRECTOR | PRODUCER | FILMMAKER
Zaid Abu Hamdan is a Jordanian-born filmmaker with industry experience ranging from assistant directing, producing, acting, writing for both feature films and television. Zaid Abu Hamdan created Zaha Productions, which produced the highly acclaimed short film, Baram & Hamza, among others.
Abu Hamdan’s latest 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.
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Program Studied at NYFA: Filmmaking
Program Type: MFA
Year Graduated: 2010
Location: Los Angeles
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