Jad Sleiman
○ Los Angeles, California
Award-winning fiction
credits: writer
director
cinematographer
editor
More Fiction Shorts
credits: writer
director
cinematographer
editor
K7 // Drama // 7 minutes
VGA (Video Gaming Addiction) // Claymation Stop Motion // 2 minutes
..5 minute episode // Drama // 6 minutes
Fresh Tomatoes // Documentary // 2 minutes
15 plans // Sci Fi, Thriller // 3 minutes
Tumorous // Thriller // 6 minutes
Xeno // Sci Fi, Thriller // 8 minutes
Air // Experimental // 2 minutes
Cinematography
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Dan Grove
Comedy Special
Los Angeles
Documentaries
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Still Grieving
Feature Documentary
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Zuhal
Lebanese Drag Queen
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USAID
Baladi Program
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Caisse Mutuelle
Socio-medicale
Short Films
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'til Death
Dark Comedy
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Meat Cute
Dark Comedy
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Mirage
Fantasy Drama
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Lavande
Drama
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Felfol
Comedy
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Yellow
Drama, Fantasy
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Amal
Drama
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Lahza
Drama
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Wind Chime
Drama
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Melon Stain
Satire, Drama
Music Videos
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Born Of Dust - Thredge
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Dysfunctional - Thredge
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Chou Berjik - Marwan Chamoun
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Rabih Baroud
SMOG
Fiction // Sci-fi // 16 minutes
Synopsis
In the near future, factories filled the planet and intoxicated the Air, Humans started living in the deserted waste where Smog covers the skies and hides the Sun. Lithops, a 12 year old girl, lives an empty dull life in this deserted world with her older sister Miasma. Imprisoned behind her gas mask and thick clothes, Lithops grows the need to break out of this prison and feel the sunlight and breathe clean air.So we follow her in her quest for freedom, and finding her true Human identity.
Awards
• Best Director award
NDU 8th international film festival
• Best Cinematography award
NDU 8th international film festival
• Appreciation Award
Cinema and TV department IBA2
• Token of appreciation
AULib for SMOG
• Special mention
The Lebanese Film Festival 2016
Screenings
Rome | Japan | Abu Dhabi | Berlin | India | Beirut | New York | Los Angeles | Mississippi | Zurich | Lincolnshire | Spain | Las Vegas | Nairobi | Miami | Oregon | England | Karlsruhe | Dublin | Michigan | Bangladesh | San Francisco
The Break-Off Effect
Fiction // Drama // 3 minutes
Synopsis
Memories are like a film. But what about the past... and the future?
Awards
• First Prize Winner
2022 Earth Day Film Challenge
Audpop, Los Angeles, USA.
• Special Jury Mention
Rural Encounters REEF 2020
Screenings
Beirut | USA
RGB
Fiction // Thriller, Fantasy // 13 min
Synopsis
One night, an adult Paleolithic man, living alone in the jungles, discovers a mysterious black liquid gurgling from inside his cave. At first contact, he finds himself immersed in a transcendent journey of exploration.
Awards
• Special Jury Mention
Maskoon Film Festival 2018
Screenings
Rome | Abu Dhabi | Berlin | Beirut | Spain
Kando
Fiction // Sci-fi // 3 min
Synopsis
"Kando" is a short video that translates the concept of the power of emotional connection, aka Kando, with a twist.
Awards
• Top 5 competition finalist,
Sony
Screenings
USA | Berlin | Beirut
1460
Fiction // Sci-fi // 8 min
Synopsis
After signing a strict contract for human research, two men must survive 1460 days of isolation, locked up together in deep space.
Published articles
• Gizmodo.com
• Starship.com
• io9.com
Screenings
Beirut | Spain | Oregon
Black & White
Fiction // Experimental // 3 min
Synopsis
A girl living in a big white world, experiences the transition between Black & White.
Awards
• 1st prize winner
"How films have the power to change lives" - Dubai 2016
• Porsche's Scopes short film night
Berlin, Germany 2018
Screenings
Berlin | Beirut | Dubai
Barzakh
Documentary // Portrait // 5 min
Synopsis
Barzakh (Arabic: برزخ, from Persian barzakh, "barrier, partition") is an Arabic word meaning "obstacle", "hindrance", "separation", or "barrier".
Awards
• 3rd prize award
"Off The Grid" Filmaka, Los Angeles, California, USA
Screenings
USA | Berlin | Beirut
Sleep Therapy 87
Fiction // Sci-fi, Drama // 2 min
Synopsis
We dive into Thomas's dreams as they are effected by the narration of Sleep Therapy at his 87th day using it.
Awards
• Porsche's Scopes short film night
Berlin, Germany 2018
Screenings
USA | Berlin | Beirut
Get in touch
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Jad is a cinematography professor at California College of ASU in downtown Los Angeles, California.He is also an Artist in Residence at the Making Movies That Matter program in District 12, San Fernando Valley, California, where he teaches filmmaking in multiple schools of all ages, from high school, to middle school, and elementary.In 2019 Jad created "The Art of Filmmaking" course as the first university-level online film course in the middle east hosted by Ulebx.Later this course got the attention of other international platforms such as Udemy and Tadarab that feature this course on their platforms today.Before moving to the USA, Jad taught film at the American University of Lebanon, and volunteered with the Red Cross as a workshop instructor of film and photography for teenagers and the elderly.
Jad Sleiman
○ Los Angeles, California
is an award-winning film director, cinematographer, photographer and teacher who graduated with honors from his MA studies in Film Directing, and holding more than 10 awards in film.Based in Los Angeles, California, he teaches filmmaking in colleges and schools, freelances in the industry while writing & directing his own films.Being a multi-lingual artist he collaborated with clients and artists from around the globe. He always favored the language of film as he hosts a film discussion platform and podcast with audiences from multiple countries and cultures.
Clients
In 2019 I became the only local filmmaker and photographer to work with Aïshti Foundation as their local videographer and photographer, bringing me to work closely on “Urs Fischer: The Lyrical and the Prosaic”, a major solo exhibition by Swiss
Red Cross
Videographer and photographer of Fairy's 2017 campaign
Unicef
Actelion Pharma, Paris, France
Lawyer Gerome Choffel, Palace of Justice, Metz, France
Al Bustan Classical Music Festival
USAID
Videographer for Bledina's 2016 events and campaigns for kids.
Videographer and photographer at Bogart co. creating content for their online presence and documenting their products from shoes, bags, boots, belts and leather goods.
Casa Fekra Furniture design
ECIL NGO
Firefly Entertainment
Videographer and photographer of Hayana Design Platform's space, hosting workshops on photography and filmmaking for teenagers, and creating their crowdfunding campaign content.
Leading a team of videographers in covering -ing creative's events, lectures, workshops during their 2019 Dubai events.
Creating videography content and visuals for Nassar Paramedical Center's physical therapy department.
Rawane Hand-made Leather Goods
Sandance
Startup Weekend by Google
The Highest Event
ulebx.com
Vuemax, LLC, New Hampshire, USA
AHM, Beirut
The Grand Factory, Beirut
D-Beirut venue, Beirut
Puerto Pub Lounge
Crisp network
Feedeed.com
IESAV Theater
Guako Taco Mexican Street Food
Tournesol Theater
Plastik Studios
Five Island Festival