Ziad H. Hamzeh
Ziad’s body of work as a director, producer and writer has earned over fifty awards and honors. Most recently, Ziad produced the Tunisian hit film Take My Breath. The film has been selected to represent Tunisia at 2025, 97th Oscars for best international film. This year, Ziad wrote, produced, and directed Hello Beautiful based on the best-selling book Walk Beside Me by Christine Handy. Earlier in 2023, Ziad produced the Rwandan film Upstanding and the critically acclaimed The Island of Forgiveness with Claudia Cardinale. He Executive produced the Iranian film Forbidden Womanhood. Prior work includes producing The Flower of Aleppo starring Hend Sabry and executive produced Dreams I Never Had starring Malcolm McDowell and Robin Givens. The Flower of Aleppo was honored as Tunisia’s entry into both the 2017 Academy Awards and the Golden Globe Awards. Irrefutable Proof, a dramatic thriller Ziad directed and produced, swept the Beverly Hills Film Festival earning three of the fest's highest awards: the Golden Palm, Best Actress, and Best Cinematography. He received the Abu Dhabi Film Festival's Black Pearl Award for Best Producer for the film Always Brando, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Always Brando also received the Best Picture Award from the Alexandria Film Festival and the Jury Prize from the Algerian Film Festival. Ziad's documentary The Letter: An American Town and the Somali Invasion premiered at AFI film festival and was chosen as the opening film Amnesty International film festival. The Letter won numerous awards and accolades and was heralded as Critics Pick by New York Magazine. Woman, a documentary Ziad shot on location in Syria, once again earned Ziad the Beverly Hills Film Festival's highest honor, the Golden Palm Award. ¡Henry O! garnered Best Documentary honors at the BHFF as well as the Best of Fest Award from the Breckenridge Film Festival and the Accolades Award for Excellence in Film. His critically acclaimed feature film Shadow Glories has been heralded as “Powerful and distinctive. A mature, accomplished work...strong, stylish and uncompromising” by Kevin Thomas, film critic for The Los Angeles Times. Ziad is a member of the Producer's Guild of America serving on the diversity committee.
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