Usama Alshaibi
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Born | Baghdad, Iraq | November 20, 1969
Usama Alshaibi (Arabic: أسامة الشيبي) (born in Baghdad, Iraq on November 20, 1969) is an Iraqi-American independent filmmaker and visual artist.[1]
Life and career[]
Starting in early 2004, Alshaibi worked on a documentary on his homeland, and its current situation, titled Nice Bombs. The documentary is Alshaibi's first official release and was produced by , and executive produced by Studs Terkel. The documentary was funded in part by Creative Capital and the Playboy Foundation. It premiered at the 2006 Chicago Underground Film Festival where it won the Best Documentary Feature award and had Studs Terkel and Christie Hefner introduce the screening. Nice Bombs had a theatrical release in 2007, a broadcast premiere on the Sundance Channel in March 2008 and was released on DVD on October 2009.
Usama Alshaibi is interviewed in fellow Chicagoan Studs Terkel's book Hope Dies Last.
Alshaibi is the director of two narrative feature-length films, Profane and Muhammad and Jane, and more than fifty short films. He has also produced and directed numerous music videos for a variety of musicians, including Mahjongg, Panicsville and Bobby Conn. Alshaibi was the founder and Director of the (2000–2005) and his short films have toured with author Jack Sargeant's underground film programs. Several of his short films, including The Amateurs, are available on the DVD Solar Anus Cinema.
Filmography[]
Feature films[]
- American Arab (2013)
- Profane (2011)
- Nice Bombs (2006)
- Muhammad and Jane (2003)
- Soak (2002)
Select Short films[]
- My Third Painting (2009)
- Spoiled (2008)
- Signal Cross Over (2007)
- Dream of Samarra (2007)
- Convulsion Expulsion (2004)
- The Amateurs (2003)
- Allahu Akbar (2003)
- The Foreigner (2001)
- Dance Habibi Dance (1999)
Select Music videos[]
- Tell The Police The Truth by Mahjongg (2008)
- King for a Day by Bobby Conn (2007)
- Hold My Scissors by (2004)
- Stabbed in the Face by Panicsville (2003)
- Angels by Bobby Conn (2002)
Accolades[]
Year | Award | Category | Title | Result |
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2011 | Boston Underground Film Festival | Profane | Won | |
2010 | Profane | Won | ||
2007 | Westchester Film Festival | Won | ||
2006 | Chicago Underground Film Festival | Won | ||
2006 | Chicago Underground Film Festival | Nice Bombs | Won |
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Kozarski, Ed:, From Iraq to Iowa, Chicago Reader, published 5 August 2010, retrieved 5 September 2011
External links[]
- American film directors
- 1969 births
- American music video directors
- Artists from Chicago
- Artists from Baghdad
- Iraqi contemporary artists
- Iraqi emigrants to the United States
- Iraqi film directors
- Iraqi experimental filmmakers
- Living people