Kristie Alshaibi:  

Life I traveled to Baghdad, Iraq in 2004 to produce a documentary titled "Nice Bombs" about my husband's return to his birthplace after 24 years of exile. The movie recently received a grant from the Playboy Foundation, and another from the Creative Capital Foundation, and will be completed by autumn of 2005. I finished my first feature film in Chicago (as writer/director/editor), titled Other People's Mirrors. It premiered at the Gene Siskel Film Center in September 2004. I've written a second narrative feature and have begun pre-production on a new documentary. I had a son at 19, got married, got divorced (that quickly), got a Bachelor's degree in Photogrpahy/Video at the Kansas City Art Institute in 1999, graduating third in my class, and got a full scholarship to the graduate program in Film at the Art Institute of Chicago. I recieved my Master's Degree in 2001. I won the Princess Grace Award for my short films, and have had my work shown at Lincoln Center in NYC (where I was also awarded a...Expand for more