Shahab Zargari

Shahab Zargari is an award-winning Iranian-American filmmaker and administrative faculty member of the UNLV College of Fine Arts. After years of creating original short-form streaming content, Shahab made his directorial debut with the Philip K. Dick adaptation, The Crystal Crypt (2013), an official selection at the San Diego Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival. He continued to hone his craft, creating original films, music videos, and a multitude of commissioned works. Shahab's short films My Name is Art (2018) and Oh, The Guilt (2021) garnered a dozen awards from a variety of prestigious festivals, including official selection to Amazon's inaugural All Voices Film Festival, a digital festival celebrating underrepresented communities.