Shahab Zargari is an award-winning Iranian-American filmmaker and administrative faculty member of the UNLV College of Fine Arts (including as a member of the UNLV College of Fine Arts Executive Committee), and one of the founding investors in Brass Knuckle Films. 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.

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‘ and his iPhone experiment, THE DOOMED SHORTCUT (2022), he produced and directed two micro shorts, RUINED EARTH (2025) and BEYOND THE PANE (2026). 

He continues to hone his craft, creating original films, music videos, and a multitude of commissioned works.

You can view all of his creative output on his Vimeo and Youtube accounts.