Bio

Zawahry is an accomplished filmmaker whose films have shown in 100 venues worldwide.  Her film “Tough Crowd” won a Student Emmy Award and qualified as a finalist in the NBC Comedy Short Cuts.  She was a recipient of the coveted Princess Grace Award, which is dedicated to identifying and assisting emerging artists, for her film “UnderCover.”

Zawahry was a consultant on the television shows “The Odyssey” and “The Big C” and recently wrapped her directorial debut feature film. She is currently writing a feature that advanced to the final round of Sundance Writer’s Lab.

In 2014, Zawahry collaborated with the not-for-profit-organization Islamic Scholarship Fund to create the first-ever American-Muslim film grant that helps fund filmmakers who are presenting a positive narrative of Muslims in America.

News

• Video: Iman Zawahry Discusses Filmmaking, Mentoring Young Muslim Artists, and Comedy for Social Change (March 18, 2021)
• Iman Zawahry Authors Blog Post on the Lack of Muslim Women in Lead Film Roles (November 23, 2020)
• CJC Expands “We Are CJC” Initiative to Celebrate Stories of Everyday Advocacy (October 15, 2020)
• CJC Students Nominated for NATAS 2020 Suncoast Chapter Student Production Awards (April 29, 2020)
• CJC Launches New Online “Great Storytellers: Women and the Art of Film” Series (April 20, 2020)
• All News About Iman Zawahry

Courses

Syllabi from the current and three previous semesters:

• RTV  3320 - Electronic Field Production - Spring 2021 (PDF)
• RTV  4929C - Narrative Collaborative Filmmaking - Spring 2021 (PDF)
• RTV  4929C - Narrative Collaborative Filmmaking - Independent Study - Spring 2021 (PDF)
• RTV  4930 - Islam, Media, and Pop Culture - Spring 2021 (PDF)
• RTV  3320 - Electronic Field Production - section 09E3-09E5 - Fall 2020 (PDF)
• RTV  3516 - Electronic Field Production II - section 1A78 - Fall 2020 (PDF)
• RTV  3945 - We Are CJC (Immersion Experience) - section 3E37 - Fall 2020 (PDF)
• RTV  3320 - Electronic Field Production - section All - Spring 2020 (PDF)
• RTV  4905 - Narrative Collaborative Filmmaking - section 03D3 - Spring 2020 (PDF)
• RTV  4929C - Narrative Collaborative Filmmaking - section 3233 - Spring 2020 (PDF)
• RTV  4930 - Islam, Media, and Pop Culture - section 01B9 - Spring 2020 (PDF)
• RTV  3320 - Electronic Field Production - section All - Fall 2019 (PDF)
• RTV  3516 - Electronic Field Production II - section 1A78 - Fall 2019 (PDF)
• RTV  4929C - Collaborative Narrative Filmmaking - section 1984 - Fall 2019 (PDF)
• RTV  3516 - Electronic Field Production II - section 02BC - Summer 2019 (PDF)