Hasan Hadi

An Iraqi screenwriter and director, Hasan Hadi grew up in southern Iraq during the war and has worked in journalism, production and as an adjunct lecturer in film at New York University.

He has received the Gotham-Marcie Bloom Fellowship, the Black Family Production Prize and the Sloan Foundation Production Award. A 2022 Sundance Lab fellow, he received the 2022 Sundance/NHK Award, the SFFILM Rainin Fellowship and the Doha Film Institute Fellowship for his debut film, The President’s Cake.