Nadia Shihab is a 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. Her work has screened internationally at venues which include the Centre Pompidou, Walker Art Center, Berkeley Art Museum, e-flux, Black Star Film Festival, Images Festival, DOXA, Kassel Dokfest and Cairo International Film Festival. Her creative practice is preceded by a decade of work as a community practitioner and affordable housing advocate in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was raised in west Texas by immigrant parents from Iraq and Yemen and is an Assistant Professor in Film in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University.
