Name: Tarek Albaba

Recipient Year: 2016|2023

Description: Tarek Albaba is an Arab American filmmaker with over 20 years of experience producing series, branded content and specials for premium networks, studios and agencies. He invested his production expertise and his passion for social justice in his first feature documentary: 36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Crime. Tarek has also developed a feature script, 1948, about his family’s harrowing exodus in Palestine during the Nakba. Tarek has travelled extensively for work, filming in remote locations like the Turkish/Syrian border, Dutch Harbor Alaska and deep in the mountains of Guatemala.

Sponsor: ISF Film Grant|Ghulam and Arifa Azad Family Scholarship

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarek-albaba-4a686713a/