BIOGRAPHY 

Abdullah Al-Wazzan is a film director, screenwriter and film producer, He was born in 1990 in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Al-Wazzan developed an interest in filmmaking in his early pre-teens. At the age of 17 he studied Architecture And graduated in 2012 with a Bachelor of Architecture. He went on to create the animated short film "Falafel Cart" (2019) which was officially submitted to the "92nd Academy Awards" making it the first short film from Kuwait to ever be submitted to the "Academy Awards". Alwazzan has received and was nominated for several awards, most notably won Best short animated film at the 2021 Burbank International Film Festival in California, Won best international film at Los Angeles Animation Festival and was officially selected in 2020 as "best of the world" at the prestigious Hiroshima International Animation Festival in Japan.