Faculty > Tania Khalaf
| TANIA KHALAF Assistant Professor, Documentary Production khalaf@unt.edu (940) 565-2551 |
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Born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, Tania Khalaf worked as a producer, editor, and drama teacher before moving to the United States.
Khalaf produced and directed several documentary, narrative and experimental films, sometimes blending these styles together. Her work has screened at several venues including the Santa Fe Film Festival, Deep Ellum Film Festival, San Francisco Documentary Film Festival and the Angelika Film Center. still, life., co-produced with Meta Newhouse, won the 2005 Austin Film Festival’s "Best Documentary Short" and was selected as a NextFrame Documentary Finalist. Her latest documentary “Born in Beirut” partly funded by Women In Film, Dallas received the Award of Excellence at the Broadcast Education Association Conference - 2008. Her films explore the human struggle with life and death, the triumph of the human spirit and the consequences of social injustice.
Khalaf teaches Introduction to Radio, Television and Film, Film Style Production, Documentary Preproduction and International Documentary.
Khalaf holds a B.A. in Theater and Drama from the Lebanese University of Beirut, Fine Arts Institute, and an MFA in Documentary Production from the University of North Texas.
