Bashar Shbib

Bashar Shbib close to his childhood farm. There he opened a film training program and has pursued his doctoral dissertation as a candidate at McGill University in Communications. Shbib has a Masters degree in Communication at McGill University. Shbib has been a painter of abstract art since 1974 and has sold over 600 works. In 1999 and 2000, Shbib created and produced one of the first groundbreaking webisodic shows: Aliendog.net. Nominated for a Pixie Award, Aliendog streamed over 200 five-minute dramatic web shows. Shbib is now producing films in Europe and Canada. Though his past films have been described as a combination of "German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Archie Comics" and "Bertolt Brecht directing 'Risky Business'" Shbib feels that his films are nowhere near as daunting as they first appear. His romantic comedies Julia Has two Lovers and Lana In Love, were premiered at the prestigious Berlin Film Festival and received critical acclaim at both the 1991 Montreal Film Festival and the New Orleans Film Festival and were then released worldwide. Another of his comedies, Love $ Greed, was in competition and one of the highlights at the 1991 Montreal Film Festival. Shbib also released a series of six feature films titled The Senses, which were extremely well received by moviegoers and also by the press, and have been aired on Radio Canada and several television networks worldwide. Shbib has a penchant for his less commercial works Evixion, Or D'Ur and Clair-Obscur. He is now preparing for the distribution of Strawberries & Wine, Last Chapter and The Wedding Murders. Shbib insists on his independence driven by his passion for film when undertaking a project. At a time when independent filmmakers are scrambling to raise funds for their films, Shbib's prudent shooting schedules enable him to freely direct and produce the modestly budgeted movies that he enjoys making. He also works for his daughter's company Sunset Pictures and more recently produced for her the theatrical feature Frauds In Love directed by the notorious Indie filmmaker Adam Coleman Howard. His latest collaboration with his daughter Maïa Nadon-Chbib is a feature titled The Last Chapter. Chbib is currently producing a long-form documentary: Border Town which follows the tribulations of a small border town community in Quebec through vignettes of local entrepreneurs and artists. Completion is scheduled for June of 2012. Shbib has also been shooting an eight part miniseries titled Granite Forks about human trafficking.