Known For
Directing
Born
Nov 20, 1969
Place of Birth
Baghdad, Iraq
Credits
46 titles
Usama Alshaibi
Biography
Usama Alshaibi is a director, writer and producer. He has spent his formative years living between the United States and the Middle East. His films have received grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, the Playboy Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and others. His work in both narrative and documentary film has screened all over the world. His documentary films have premiered on the Sundance Channel and PBS. Feature articles have been written about his work in such places as the Chicago Tribune, Time Out, Punk Planet and Variety. His latest documentary, American Arab, had a world premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and has secured domestic and international distribution. Usama Alshaibi has directed 16 feature and short films. He and his creative partner Kristie Alshaibi run and operate Artvamp, which produces the majority of their films.
Known For
Filmography
Trip Ziggurat
Director
The Apocalyptic Is the Mother of All Christian Theology
Anxiety Art
Thanks
The Desire
Director
CINEMA-19
Director
Filmmakers Unite (FU)
Director
The Evil and the Good Fairy
Director
Baghdad, Iowa
Director
American Arab
Director
Profane
Director
Solar Anus Cinema
Director
My Fourth Painting
Director
My Third Painting
Director
My Mother Paused By My Father
Director
Gash
Director
My Second Painting
Director
Organ Molly
Director
Runaway
Director
Patient
Director
Spoiled
Director
Looking at Clouds
Director
Dream of Samarra
Director
Signal Cross Over
Director
Baba Boom Boom
Director
Nice Bombs
Director
Qawliya Dance
Director
Eid Sacrifice
Director
Traumata
Director
Bombshell: Iraqi Secret Videos and Artifacts from a Fallen Regime
Director
Hold My Scissors
Director
Convulsion Expulsion
Director
Self-Contained
Director
Portrait
Director
The Amateurs
Writer
Allahu Akbar
Director
Muhammad and Jane
Soak
Director
Slaughtered Pigtails
Director
Ass
Director
Muffin
Director
Crying
Director
Death Jerk-Off 2000
Director
Dance Habibi Dance
Director
The Speech By the Sweet Young Beeper
Director
Soon
Self
Boy from War
Director