Omar Kakar is a cross-cultural interdisciplinary architect-turned-filmmaker and a first generation Afghan-American. His hybridized identity led him into the fields of art, design, & cinema.
He holds a professional B.Arch degree from Woodbury University School of Architecture, where he was nominated to the AIAS Vice President position and exhibited films at the Arquiteturas International Film Festival Lisboa and Archdaily. Omar earned his MFA in Film as a Directing Candidate from Columbia University, where he was selected to a Directing Fellowship with filmmaker Ramin Bahrani.
His thesis film was recipient of the "Production Grant Award for Collaboration" from the Jack Larson Foundation and was awarded "Jury Selects" upon completion after screening at the Walter Reade Theater in Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the DGA Theater in New York City.
