Hasan Hadi
Directing
Hasan Hadi is an Iraqi writer/director and an adjunct professor at NYU's Graduate Film Program. His short ‘Swimsuit’ won an Oscar-qualifying award at Urbanworld and received distribution from HBO Max. Hasan’s recognitions include the Tisch Dean’s Fellowship, the Gotham-Marcie 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 Institute/NHK Award, SFFILM Rainin Grant, and Doha Film Institute Grant for his feature debut, ‘The President's Cake’.
