Ziad H. Hamzeh

Ziad’s body of work as a director, producer and writer has earned over fifty awards and honors. Most recently, Ziad produced the Tunisian hit film Take My Breath. The film has been selected to represent Tunisia at 2025, 97th Oscars for best international film. This year, Ziad wrote, produced, and directed Hello Beautiful based on the best-selling book Walk Beside Me by Christine Handy. Earlier in 2023, Ziad produced the Rwandan film Upstanding and the critically acclaimed The Island of Forgiveness with Claudia Cardinale. He Executive produced the Iranian film Forbidden Womanhood. Prior work includes producing The Flower of Aleppo starring Hend Sabry and executive produced Dreams I Never Had starring Malcolm McDowell and Robin Givens. The Flower of Aleppo was honored as Tunisia’s entry into both the 2017 Academy Awards and the Golden Globe Awards. Irrefutable Proof, a dramatic thriller Ziad directed and produced, swept the Beverly Hills Film Festival earning three of the fest's highest awards: the Golden Palm, Best Actress, and Best Cinematography. He received the Abu Dhabi Film Festival's Black Pearl Award for Best Producer for the film Always Brando, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Always Brando also received the Best Picture Award from the Alexandria Film Festival and the Jury Prize from the Algerian Film Festival. Ziad's documentary The Letter: An American Town and the Somali Invasion premiered at AFI film festival and was chose…