Oday Rasheed

Oday Rasheed is an Arab-American film director, screenwriter and producer born and raised in Baghdad, Iraq. Rasheed immigrated to New York City in 2012 and he has been living and working in Los Angeles since 2022. Rasheed's film debut Underexposure (2005) was "billed as the first feature shot in occupied Baghdad" after the U.S. Invasion of Iraq in 2003 where "Oday Rasheed has taken the term 'guerilla filmmaking' to a whole new level," according to Variety Magazine. The main themes present in Rasheed's work are: surviving war mentally and emotionally, immigration, and the poetic aspect and limitless ability of the human mind and imagination.