American film director

Usama Alshaibi (Arabic: أسامة الشيبي) (born in Baghdad, Iraq on November 20, 1969) is an Iraqi-American independent filmmaker and visual artist.

Contents

• 1 Life and career
• 2 Filmography
  • 2.1 Feature films
  • 2.2 Select Short films
  • 2.3 Select Music videos
• 3 Accolades
• 4 See also
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Life and career

Starting in early 2004, Alshaibi worked on a do*entary on his homeland, and its current situation, *led Nice Bombs. The do*entary is Alshaibi's first official release and was produced by Kristie Alshaibi, and executive produced by Studs Terkel. The do*entary 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 Do*entary 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 in 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 Z Film Festival (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 * Cinema.

He is the elder brother of artist Sama Alshaibi and sociologist Wisam Alshaibi.

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 Magic is Küntmaster (2004)
• Stabbed in the Face by Panicsville (2003)
• Angels by Bobby Conn (2002)

Accolades

See also

• Iraqi art
• List of Iraqi artists

References

External links

• Usama Alshaibi at IMDb
• Usama Alshaibi Official Website
• From Iraq to Iowa, Chicago Reader article
• Usama Alshaibi interviewed in Studs Terkel's "Hope Dies Last"