Waël Kabbani

Waël is the executive creative director of Iambic Dream Films & Iambic Dream Inc., independent production companies producing music, film, and animation. He is an executive producer of award-winning and critically acclaimed films, including “We Are Many”, “Open Bethlehem”, “Life Is Sacred”, “Studio 17: The Lost Reggae Tapes”, “Cultivating Murder”, “Medicine Man: The Stan Brock Story”, and “What Walaa Wants”. Waël’s films have been screened at international film festivals, including the Berlinale/Berlin International Film Festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest, and Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. WHAT WALAA WANTS was awarded the Directors Guild of Canada’s Special Jury Prize for Canadian Feature Documentary, as well as four other awards. The film was nominated for three Canadian Screen Awards, which are the Canadian equivalent of the Academy Awards, and Waël was also nominated for a CSA. Before getting into films, he was and continues to be an award-winning songwriter and the creator of a global network of animated superheroes called “The Utopians’ Alliance”.