Badr Farha

Badr Farha is a Lebanese filmmaker who was born and raised in Dubai, UAE. During his undergraduate time spent getting his bachelors in business administration he would still toy and wrestle with secret thoughts of finally graduating and then pursuing his own adolescent dreams of filmmaking. Soon after he graduated, he worked at Leo Burnett handling General Motors as a communications executive for 2 years. It was at that time he decided to go back to the drawing board one last time and address his needs for a higher purpose. Those times were familiar and met when he was 13, 18 and again at 24. The award-winning director decided to devote his career to his adolescent passions of filmmaking and within 6 months relocated to New York City and was thrown into the trenches of filmmaking. After directing several independent and experimental music videos under Irreverence Group Music (IGM) and while pursuing a conservatory program in filmmaking he knew that he would have to move to LA to get his Masters in Filmmaking and by the fall of 2013 he was well on his way to getting his MFA in filmmaking. "The Last Conversation," his MFA Thesis, in which he served as writer-director, was accepted into the 2015 Cannes Film Festival -Court-Métrage and, among other awards, was named IndieFEST Winner in Los Angeles. His passions also included other areas of production - as Art Director on "More Than Words" and, as Production Designer on "When Negatives Collide" - both of which were also shortlisted at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival Court-Métrage. Badr Farha's television credits include "The Seven Year Switch," and more recently, as Art Director on Tisha Campbell Martin's hit single "Steel Here." He is in development for his Directorial feature length film set to take place in the Middle East in 2018.