Nabil Abou-Harb

Abou-Harb's Arab in America won the audience award for "Best Short Film" at the Arabian Sights Film Festival. The festival is sponsored by The Washington D.C. International Film Festival. It also won the Grand Prize of 2008 One Nation Many Voices Online Film Contest.

Bowman attended Georgia Institute of Technology where he earned his Bachelor's degree, whereas Abou-Harb was awarded a portfolio scholarship from the Savannah College of Art and Design for his Star Wars fanfilm trailer. He graduated in 2007, earning his Bachelor's degree in Film/Television. A short, two-minute trailer from "Star Wars: Rise of the Black Sun" debuted on Loganville High School's student-run news "WDVL" program. The trailer was also posted online.

The "Arab in America" short was shot over twelve days in Savannah, Georgia and Atlanta, Georgia with Nabil Abou-Harb directing and co-producing the film. It debuted at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival followed by the United States premiere at the "Arabian Sights Film Festival" sponsored by The Washington D.C. International Film Festival where "Arab in America" won the Audience Award for Best Short Film.

Nabil Zouheir Abou-Harb (Arabic: نبيل أبو حرب ‎; born September 13, 1984) is an American filmmaker, writer, producer, and director. He is also co-founder of "Five on Fifty Films" and has directed and produced a number of commercials.

Abou-Harb was born in Marietta, Georgia, United States, to Zouheir Abou-Harb and Sally Cardinali Abou-Harb in 1984. Nabil was raised as a Muslim in Loganville, Georgia. He graduated from Loganville High School in 2003.