Mike Elsherif

BIOGRAPHIE

Mike Elsherif is an award-winning Palestinian-American filmmaker that immigrated to America from Kuwait following the Persian Gulf War. His films deal with themes of displacement, mortality, and the immigrant experience and have been screened at national and international film festivals. He was a Rawi fellow at the Rawi Screenwriters Lab in Jordan held by the Royal Film Commission, an Al Smith Fellow selected by the Kentucky Arts Council, a Writer-in-Residence at The New Harmony Project, an Artist-in-Residence at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, a COLLIDER Artist-in-Residence at the Louisville Free Public Library, and a Sunbird Stories finalist selected by FilmLab Palestine and Cinephilia Productions. Mike was also recently awarded the 40 Under 40 Award from the Arab America Foundation. His short films have screened at numerous national and international film festivals, including the Cucalorus Film Festival, Indie Grits Film Festival, Next Reel Film Festival in Singapore held by NYU, Flyover Film Festival, and Sound of Silent Film Festival in Chicago. He is a member of Team Team!, a film collective that has won four Best Film awards at the 48 Hour Film Project. Mike received a BFA from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, School of Filmmaking with a concentration in Film Directing.

FILMOGRAPHIE