Jad Sleiman

○ Los Angeles, California

Award-winning fiction

credits: writer director cinematographer editor

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Commercials

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Cinematography

Dan Grove
Comedy Special

Los Angeles

Documentaries

Still Grieving

Feature Documentary

Zuhal

Lebanese Drag Queen

USAID

Baladi Program

Caisse Mutuelle

Socio-medicale

Short Films

'til Death

Dark Comedy

Meat Cute

Dark Comedy

Mirage

Fantasy Drama

Lavande

Drama

Felfol

Comedy

Yellow

Drama, Fantasy

Amal

Drama

Lahza

Drama

Wind Chime

Drama

Melon Stain

Satire, Drama

Music Videos

Born Of Dust - Thredge

Dysfunctional - Thredge

Chou Berjik - Marwan Chamoun

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

[email protected]

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.

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