Biography

Shahab Zargari is an award-winning filmmaker and administrative faculty member of the UNLV College of Fine Arts (including as a member of the UNLV College of Fine Arts Executive Committee). After years of creating original short-form streaming content, Shahab made his directorial cinematic debut with the Philip K. Dick adaptation, "The Crystal Crypt" (2013), an official selection at the San Diego Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival.

Shahab’s short films "My Name is Art" (2018) and "Oh, The Gult" (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. After the success of the Docu-Drama Dance film ‘The UNLV Shoah Project‘ and his iPhone experiment, The Doomed Shortcut (2022), he produced and directed two micro shorts, Ruined Earth (2025) and Beyond the Pane (2026).
- IMDb mini biography by: Shahab Zargari