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Usama Alshaibi (b. 1969)

Birthplace:
Baghdad, Iraq

Born:
November 20, 1969

Biography from TheMovieDB

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.

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Film Performances

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Film Production

Cinematography:
2003  Muhammad and Jane
2011  Profane

Director:
1999  Dance Habibi Dance
2000  Crying
2000  Death Jerk-Off 2000
2000  Muffin
2001  Ass
2001  Slaughtered Pigtails
2002  Soak
2003  Allahu Akbar
2003  Muhammad and Jane
2003  The Amateurs
2004  Bombshell: Iraqi Secret Videos and Artifacts from a Fallen Regime
2004  Convulsion Expulsion
2004  Hold My Scissors
2004  Self-Contained
2005  Traumata
2006  Eid Sacrifice
2006  Nice Bombs
2006  Qawliya Dance
2007  Baba Boom Boom
2007  Dream of Samarra
2007  Signal Cross Over
2008  Gash
2008  Looking at Clouds
2008  My Second Painting
2008  Organ Molly
2008  Patient
2008  Runaway
2008  Spoiled
2009  My Mother Paused By My Father
2009  My Third Painting
2010  My Fourth Painting
2010  Solar Anus Cinema
2011  Profane
2013  American Arab
2016  Baghdad, Iowa
2016  The Evil and the Good Fairy
2017  Filmmakers Unite (FU)
2020  CINEMA-19
2020  The Desire
????  Boy from War
????  The Speech By the Sweet Young Beeper

Director of Photography:
1999  Dance Habibi Dance
2000  Crying
2000  Death Jerk-Off 2000
2000  Muffin
2001  Ass
2001  Slaughtered Pigtails
2002  Soak
2003  Allahu Akbar
2003  Muhammad and Jane
2003  The Amateurs
2004  Bombshell: Iraqi Secret Videos and Artifacts from a Fallen Regime
2004  Convulsion Expulsion
2004  Hold My Scissors
2004  Self-Contained
2005  Traumata
2006  Eid Sacrifice
2006  Nice Bombs
2006  Qawliya Dance
2007  Baba Boom Boom
2007  Dream of Samarra
2007  Signal Cross Over
2008  Gash
2008  Looking at Clouds
2008  My Second Painting
2008  Organ Molly
2008  Patient
2008  Runaway
2008  Spoiled
2009  My Mother Paused By My Father
2009  My Third Painting
2010  My Fourth Painting
2010  Solar Anus Cinema
2011  Profane
2013  American Arab
2016  Baghdad, Iowa
2016  The Evil and the Good Fairy
2017  Filmmakers Unite (FU)
2020  CINEMA-19
2020  The Desire
????  Boy from War
????  The Speech By the Sweet Young Beeper

Editor:
1999  Dance Habibi Dance
2000  Crying
2000  Death Jerk-Off 2000
2000  Muffin
2001  Ass
2001  Slaughtered Pigtails
2002  Soak
2003  Allahu Akbar
2003  Muhammad and Jane
2003  The Amateurs
2004  Bombshell: Iraqi Secret Videos and Artifacts from a Fallen Regime
2004  Convulsion Expulsion
2004  Hold My Scissors
2004  Self-Contained
2005  Traumata
2006  Eid Sacrifice
2006  Nice Bombs
2006  Qawliya Dance
2007  Baba Boom Boom
2007  Dream of Samarra
2007  Signal Cross Over
2008  Gash
2008  Looking at Clouds
2008  My Second Painting
2008  Organ Molly
2008  Patient
2008  Runaway
2008  Spoiled
2009  My Mother Paused By My Father
2009  My Third Painting
2010  My Fourth Painting
2010  Solar Anus Cinema
2011  Profane
2013  American Arab
2016  Baghdad, Iowa
2016  The Evil and the Good Fairy
2017  Filmmakers Unite (FU)
2020  CINEMA-19
2020  The Desire
????  Boy from War
????  The Speech By the Sweet Young Beeper

Executive Producer:
1999  Dance Habibi Dance
2000  Crying
2000  Death Jerk-Off 2000
2000  Muffin
2001  Ass
2001  Slaughtered Pigtails
2002  Soak
2003  Allahu Akbar
2003  Muhammad and Jane
2003  The Amateurs
2004  Bombshell: Iraqi Secret Videos and Artifacts from a Fallen Regime
2004  Convulsion Expulsion
2004  Hold My Scissors
2004  Self-Contained
2005  Traumata
2006  Eid Sacrifice
2006  Nice Bombs
2006  Qawliya Dance
2007  Baba Boom Boom
2007  Dream of Samarra
2007  Signal Cross Over
2008  Gash
2008  Looking at Clouds
2008  My Second Painting
2008  Organ Molly
2008  Patient
2008  Runaway
2008  Spoiled
2009  My Mother Paused By My Father
2009  My Third Painting
2010  My Fourth Painting
2010  Solar Anus Cinema
2011  Profane
2013  American Arab
2016  Baghdad, Iowa
2016  The Evil and the Good Fairy
2017  Filmmakers Unite (FU)
2020  CINEMA-19
2020  The Desire
????  Boy from War
????  The Speech By the Sweet Young Beeper

Original Music Composer:
1999  Dance Habibi Dance
2000  Crying
2000  Death Jerk-Off 2000
2000  Muffin
2001  Ass
2001  Slaughtered Pigtails
2002  Soak
2003  Allahu Akbar
2003  Muhammad and Jane
2003  The Amateurs
2004  Bombshell: Iraqi Secret Videos and Artifacts from a Fallen Regime
2004  Convulsion Expulsion
2004  Hold My Scissors
2004  Self-Contained
2005  Traumata
2006  Eid Sacrifice
2006  Nice Bombs
2006  Qawliya Dance
2007  Baba Boom Boom
2007  Dream of Samarra
2007  Signal Cross Over
2008  Gash
2008  Looking at Clouds
2008  My Second Painting
2008  Organ Molly
2008  Patient
2008  Runaway
2008  Spoiled
2009  My Mother Paused By My Father
2009  My Third Painting
2010  My Fourth Painting
2010  Solar Anus Cinema
2011  Profane
2013  American Arab
2016  Baghdad, Iowa
2016  The Evil and the Good Fairy
2017  Filmmakers Unite (FU)
2020  CINEMA-19
2020  The Desire
????  Boy from War
????  The Speech By the Sweet Young Beeper

Producer:
1999  Dance Habibi Dance
2000  Crying
2000  Death Jerk-Off 2000
2000  Muffin
2001  Ass
2001  Slaughtered Pigtails
2002  Soak
2003  Allahu Akbar
2003  Muhammad and Jane
2003  The Amateurs
2004  Bombshell: Iraqi Secret Videos and Artifacts from a Fallen Regime
2004  Convulsion Expulsion
2004  Hold My Scissors
2004  Self-Contained
2005  Traumata
2006  Eid Sacrifice
2006  Nice Bombs
2006  Qawliya Dance
2007  Baba Boom Boom
2007  Dream of Samarra
2007  Signal Cross Over
2008  Gash
2008  Looking at Clouds
2008  My Second Painting
2008  Organ Molly
2008  Patient
2008  Runaway
2008  Spoiled
2009  My Mother Paused By My Father
2009  My Third Painting
2010  My Fourth Painting
2010  Solar Anus Cinema
2011  Profane
2013  American Arab
2016  Baghdad, Iowa
2016  The Evil and the Good Fairy
2017  Filmmakers Unite (FU)
2020  CINEMA-19
2020  The Desire
????  Boy from War
????  The Speech By the Sweet Young Beeper

Screenplay:
1999  Dance Habibi Dance
2000  Crying
2000  Death Jerk-Off 2000
2000  Muffin
2001  Ass
2001  Slaughtered Pigtails
2002  Soak
2003  Allahu Akbar
2003  Muhammad and Jane
2003  The Amateurs
2004  Bombshell: Iraqi Secret Videos and Artifacts from a Fallen Regime
2004  Convulsion Expulsion
2004  Hold My Scissors
2004  Self-Contained
2005  Traumata
2006  Eid Sacrifice
2006  Nice Bombs
2006  Qawliya Dance
2007  Baba Boom Boom
2007  Dream of Samarra
2007  Signal Cross Over
2008  Gash
2008  Looking at Clouds
2008  My Second Painting
2008  Organ Molly
2008  Patient
2008  Runaway
2008  Spoiled
2009  My Mother Paused By My Father
2009  My Third Painting
2010  My Fourth Painting
2010  Solar Anus Cinema
2011  Profane
2013  American Arab
2016  Baghdad, Iowa
2016  The Evil and the Good Fairy
2017  Filmmakers Unite (FU)
2020  CINEMA-19
2020  The Desire
????  Boy from War
????  The Speech By the Sweet Young Beeper

Sound Designer:
1999  Dance Habibi Dance
2000  Crying
2000  Death Jerk-Off 2000
2000  Muffin
2001  Ass
2001  Slaughtered Pigtails
2002  Soak
2003  Allahu Akbar
2003  Muhammad and Jane
2003  The Amateurs
2004  Bombshell: Iraqi Secret Videos and Artifacts from a Fallen Regime
2004  Convulsion Expulsion
2004  Hold My Scissors
2004  Self-Contained
2005  Traumata
2006  Eid Sacrifice
2006  Nice Bombs
2006  Qawliya Dance
2007  Baba Boom Boom
2007  Dream of Samarra
2007  Signal Cross Over
2008  Gash
2008  Looking at Clouds
2008  My Second Painting
2008  Organ Molly
2008  Patient
2008  Runaway
2008  Spoiled
2009  My Mother Paused By My Father
2009  My Third Painting
2010  My Fourth Painting
2010  Solar Anus Cinema
2011  Profane
2013  American Arab
2016  Baghdad, Iowa
2016  The Evil and the Good Fairy
2017  Filmmakers Unite (FU)
2020  CINEMA-19
2020  The Desire
????  Boy from War
????  The Speech By the Sweet Young Beeper

Thanks:
1999  Dance Habibi Dance
2000  Crying
2000  Death Jerk-Off 2000
2000  Muffin
2001  Ass
2001  Slaughtered Pigtails
2002  Soak
2003  Allahu Akbar
2003  Muhammad and Jane
2003  The Amateurs
2004  Bombshell: Iraqi Secret Videos and Artifacts from a Fallen Regime
2004  Convulsion Expulsion
2004  Hold My Scissors
2004  Self-Contained
2005  Traumata
2006  Eid Sacrifice
2006  Nice Bombs
2006  Qawliya Dance
2007  Baba Boom Boom
2007  Dream of Samarra
2007  Signal Cross Over
2008  Gash
2008  Looking at Clouds
2008  My Second Painting
2008  Organ Molly
2008  Patient
2008  Runaway
2008  Spoiled
2009  My Mother Paused By My Father
2009  My Third Painting
2010  My Fourth Painting
2010  Solar Anus Cinema
2011  Profane
2013  American Arab
2016  Baghdad, Iowa
2016  The Evil and the Good Fairy
2017  Filmmakers Unite (FU)
2019  Anxiety Art
2020  CINEMA-19
2020  The Desire
????  Boy from War
????  The Speech By the Sweet Young Beeper

Writer:
1999  Dance Habibi Dance
2000  Crying
2000  Death Jerk-Off 2000
2000  Muffin
2001  Ass
2001  Slaughtered Pigtails
2002  Soak
2003  Allahu Akbar
2003  Muhammad and Jane
2003  The Amateurs
2004  Bombshell: Iraqi Secret Videos and Artifacts from a Fallen Regime
2004  Convulsion Expulsion
2004  Hold My Scissors
2004  Self-Contained
2005  Traumata
2006  Eid Sacrifice
2006  Nice Bombs
2006  Qawliya Dance
2007  Baba Boom Boom
2007  Dream of Samarra
2007  Signal Cross Over
2008  Gash
2008  Looking at Clouds
2008  My Second Painting
2008  Organ Molly
2008  Patient
2008  Runaway
2008  Spoiled
2009  My Mother Paused By My Father
2009  My Third Painting
2010  My Fourth Painting
2010  Solar Anus Cinema
2011  Profane
2013  American Arab
2016  Baghdad, Iowa
2016  The Evil and the Good Fairy
2017  Filmmakers Unite (FU)
2019  Anxiety Art
2020  CINEMA-19
2020  The Desire
????  Boy from War
????  The Speech By the Sweet Young Beeper

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