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

• CJC Students and Alumni Receive 2019 BEA Festival of Media Arts Awards (April 10, 2019)
• Iman Zawahry Speaks About Her Filmmaking Career and Representing Muslim-American Women (March 26, 2019)
• UF College of Journalism and Communications Announces Unprecedented Expansion (August 6, 2018)
• CJC Alums Recognized at Prestigious Florida Film Festivals (April 25, 2018)
• Iman Zawahry Selected for CJC Telecommunication Lecturer Position (March 29, 2018)
• All News About Iman Zawahry

Courses

Syllabi from the current and three previous semesters:

• RTV  3320 - Electronic Field Production - section All - Spring 2019 (PDF)
• RTV  3516 - Electronic Field Production II - section 32F2 - Spring 2019 (PDF)
• RTV  4929C - Narrative Collaborative Filmmaking - section 1984 - Fall 2018 (PDF)