Ward is a Syrian-born, NYC-based filmmaker with a multidisciplinary approach to filmmaking. A graduate of NYU Tisch and the commencement speaker for his class, his latest short film, If I Die in America, premiered at SXSW. His previous short won him a Best Director award at NFFTY. The latest short he produced, Aziz, was a semifinalist in the Student Academy Awards®. His cinematography work has played at Aspen, MoMA, OutFest and the Arab Film Festival. His latest feature script was a second-rounder at the Austin Film Festival, as well as being accepted into the Stowe Story Lab.