Shahab Zargari

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Communications Specialist, UNLV College of Fine Arts
Expertise: Film and Filmmaking, Video Production, Social Media, Arts Advocacy, Podcasts

Biography

Shahab Zargari is an award-winning Iranian-American filmmaker and administrative faculty member of the UNLV College of Fine Arts.

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.

He continued to hone his craft, creating original films, music videos, and a multitude of commissioned works. Shahab’s short films, "My Name is Art" (2018) and "Oh, The Guilt" (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, "" in the film festival circuit and his iPhone experiment, "The Doomed Shortcut" (2022), he is currently in pre-production for his next film.

Education

  • B.A., Sociology, University of California Irvine

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K.N.P.R. News
Monday is our open mic show. Where you and your views, ideas and opinions take precedent.Joining us is Shahab Zargari. He’s an award-winning Iranian-American filmmaker and faculty administrator in UNLV’s College of Fine Arts. He was on State of Nevada about a year ago promoting an album of cover songs created to support anti-suicide efforts through the Trevor Project.
Las Vegas Weekly
When a proposal to inject $190 million per year into Nevada’s film incentives program circulated in the Legislature, eyes turned to Las Vegas—and rolled in exasperation. The bill would also have expanded the state’s film tax credit program, provided for a pair of Vegas-based studio projects to help boost workforce development and larger productions, and bolstered Nevada’s film industry.
K.N.P.R. News
Record label owner. Filmmaker. Photographer. Communications guru for the UNLV College of Fine Arts. Shahab Zargari wears more hats than almost anyone else in Las Vegas’ creative community.
Las Vegas Weekly
Our country might still be mired in pandemic-born states of social isolation, but on the walls of Core Contemporary gallery in the Historic Commercial Center District, 20 artists meet in visual conversation. The occasion? The gallery’s second annual national juried art show, Use Other Door.
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