An intimate portrait of an Iraqi refugee family trying to create a new home for themselves, with the memories of their war-torn homeland still fresh in their minds.
An online web series about life in Baghdad. It tells the stories of three young Iraqis struggling to survive during the war.
| A Better Place Than This | 2012 | short film | Super 16mm | dir. Daniel Grove |
| Andronicus Wilde | 2012 | short film | HD (Red MX) | 8mm | dir. Daniel Grove |
| Trivial | 2012 | short film | HD (Red MX) | dir. Michael Callahan |
| Whispering Woods | 2012 | music video | HD (HDSLR) | dir. Mark Newman |
| Golden Girls Gossip | 2011 | short film | HD (CineAlta) | dir. Brian Scofield |
| The Boy and The Officer | 2011 | short film | HD | 3D | dir. Monica Sender |
| Hospitality | 2011 | short film | HD (CineAlta) | dir. Eric Karkheck |
| You're So Pony | 2011 | music video | HD (XDCAM EX) | dir. Liz Manashil |
| Messed Up Life | 2011 | web series | HD (HDSLR) | dir. Priscilla Obermeier |
| Come On, You Party Animals! | 2010 | music video | SD (DVCAM) | dir. Adam Ganser |
| Live Diesel. Play Stupid. | 2010 | commercial | HD (HDSLR) | dir. Mitsuyo Miyazaki |
| The Wicked Waltz | 2010 | short film | HD (XDCAM EX) | dir. Monica Sender |
| Head On | 2009 | music video | HD (XDCAM EX) | dir. Monica Sender |
| A Little Brighter | 2009 | music video | 35mm | dir. ross cohen |
| The Husbands of Has Beens | 2009 | short film | HD (HDV) | dir. Camila Tanabe |
| ZOMBO | 2009 | short film | 16mm | dir. Alberto Belli |
| April 10th | 2008 | short film | 16mm | dir. Jacob "Junior" Robinson |
| Thank You USA | 2007 | short film | SD (DVCAM) | dir. Adel Jouda |
| Einstein's Dance | 2011 | short film | HD (Genesis) | dp. Damian Horan |
| The Olivia Experiment | 2011 | feature film | HD (HDSLR) | dp. William MacCollum |
| Under God | 2011 | short film | HD (XDCAM EX) | dp. Mitsuyo Miyazaki |
| The Kiss Stays in the Picture | 2010 | commercial | 35mm | dp. Damian Horan |
| Like Mother, Like Death | 2009 | short film | HD (P2HD) | dp. Nicholas Musurca |
| Spy Love You | 2008 | short film | S16mm | dp. Sandra Valde-Hansen |
| Every Body Walk! | 2012 | feature doc | HD (HDSLR) | dp. Arlene Nelson |
| Downtown Six | 2012 | web series | HD (CineAlta) | dp. Katie Walker |
| Somewhere Slow | 2011 | feature film | HD (NXCAM) | dp. Justin Talley |
| Christmas in L.A. | 2011 | feature film | HD (CineAlta) | dp. George Reasner |
| Thank You Very Large | 2011 | feature doc | HD (CineAlta) | dp. Manfred Reiff |
| Leave It On The Floor | 2011 | feature film | HD (HDSLR) | dp. Tom Camarda |
| Hometown Baghdad | 2007 | doc series | SD (DVCAM) | dp. Nezar Mhawi |
| Threshold | 2009 | short film | 16mm | dp. Emanuel Negrila |
| Underexposure | 2005 | feature film | 35mm | dp. Ziad Jazzaa |
| The Blood Ritual | 2004 | Feature doc | SD (DVCAM) | |
| The Water Ritual | 2003 | feature doc | SD (DVCAM) |
As a child, Fady Hadid was fascinated with his father's Leica camera. But it was a possession of his father's he could never touch. When his sister attained an old Minolta compact film camera, she gave it to him, and it became his first camera. Many years later, during the invasion of his hometown in 2003, Fady used this camera to capture images of the world around him, and to begin his adventure with cinematography. In Iraq, Fady held key positions in producing, cinematography and sound design on several award-winning projects; Hometown Baghdad, Underexposure and Iraq, My Country are among them. Despite car bombs, IEDs and a death threat to his life, Fady completed his Engineering degree and managed to leave Baghdad for the opportunity to study at USC.
Fady has spoken about his experience as a young filmmaker in a war-torn country at many major international media outlets, and arts and film venues, including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Diego's Museum of Photographic Arts and Stanford University. He was also nominated for Best Sound in a Non-Fiction at the 2006 AFI Awards, and won the 2007 Premio Rossellini and three 2008 Webby Film and Video Awards. His short documentary, Where We Live, was in official selection at the 35th Cleveland International Film Festival, the 10th LACMA's Young Directors Night and the 4th Gulf Film Festival.
Fady holds an MFA degree in Film and Television Production from the University of Southern California and is an alumnus of Berlinale Talent Campus.
KPBS Midday Edition interview, June 15, 2011
Los Angeles Times cover story, May 15, 2007
The Times of London cover story, May 8, 2007
The Guardian article, May 28, 2007
Le Monde article, June 15, 2007
Le Monde article, March 23, 2007
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung article, June 2, 2007
NPR morning edition piece, May 9, 2007
NPR All Things Considered piece, March 29, 2007
Wiretap interview, April 3, 2007
The Huffington Post article, March 19, 2007
Salon article, March 19, 2007
adn interview, may 23, 2007
Zuender interview
Zuender article
Fady Hadid
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