Bandar Albuliwi

A graduate of the prestigious American Film Institute Conservatory in Los Angeles, Bandar received his MFA in Film Directing. His recent directorial feature film credits include "Peace after Marriage", starring Hiam Abbass, which has screened at over 30 international film festivals and was winner of the "Creative Promise Award" at the Tribeca Film Festival. His upcoming feature film, A Brotherhood, has attached three high profile Hollywood producers, including two-time Academy-Award nominee Hany Abu Assad. Other film credits include the 2007 award- winning short film "Broadway Bound" which was winner of the Grand Merrier Fellowship at the New York Film Festival. He was recipient of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences prestigious TV Directing fellowship in 2009 where he worked on the FOX television series, Brothers, for one season. As a playwright, his stage-play "Side by Side" premiered off-off-Broadway at the American Theater of Actors in New York City. He is a member of the prestigious Actors Studio in New York City. As an actor, he has acted off-Broadway at the Flea Theater in the award- winning stage-play "Back of the Throat" directed by Jim Simpson.