Hasan Hadi

Hasan Hadi is an Iraqi writerdirector and an adjunct professor at NYUs Graduate Film Program His short Swimsuit won an Oscarqualifying award at Urbanworld and received distribution from HBO Max Hasans recognitions include the Tisch Deans Fellowship the GothamMarcie Bloom Fellowship the Black Family Production Prize the Sloan Foundation Production Award and the BAFTA Newcomers Program He is a 2022 Sundance Institute Screenwriting and Directing Fellow and the recipient of the 2022 Sundance InstituteNHK Award SFFILM Rainin Grant and Doha Film Institute Grant for his feature debut The Presidents Cake