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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, "The UNLV Shoah Project" 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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The New Vegas Commercial That Everyone Hates
City Cast Las Vegas
At the beginning of September, Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority launched "Welcome to Fabulous," a new campaign aiming to boost our city's flagging tourism numbers — and the ⁠60-second commercial⁠ at the heart of the campaign has been widely panned by locals. So what's wrong with the ad, and why do locals hate it so much? Co-host Dayvid Figler talks with Shahab Zargari, an award-winning filmmaker and marketing expert at UNLV, and Scott Roeben, AKA Vital Vegas, industry commentator and writer at Casino.org.
Despite tax credit setbacks, Las Vegas film community keeps pushing forward
Las Vegas Sun
Nevada’s film community isn’t backing down from its quest to attract major studios to Las Vegas, despite recent legislative setbacks in their quest to obtain substantial tax incentives for the industry.
UNLV – Bringing Fine Arts and Cinema to Sin City
Vegas 411
It’s home to a symphony orchestra, choral ensembles, ever-changing exhibitions, virtual galleries, and museums. It’s the base of operations for the Jazz Outreach Initiative, a concert hall, and a haven for theater students. Its halls and classrooms honor art’s history while fostering future masterpieces. The College of Fine Arts at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas powers the pulse of Sin City…and it continues to grow.
The Big Picture: Las Vegas could become a movie and television production hub almost overnight
Las Vegas Weekly
Moviemaking likely wasn’t at the front of Howard Hughes’ mind when he moved to Las Vegas in late 1966, though the aerospace pioneer and business magnate had done plenty of it. He’d produced more than two dozen films, directed 1930’s Hell’s Angels, and even ran a studio, RKO Pictures, from 1948 t0 1955,They Live by Night.during which time he produced such film noir classics as Nicholas Ray’s
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