Hana Kazim is a filmmaker based in the UAE. She earned her MFA from the AFI Conservatory in Los Angeles and has been working in the regional film industry since 2015, contributing to the production of several Arab feature films.

In 2018, she wrote and directed the short horror film MAKR, which screened at festivals worldwide. The film gained widespread recognition, amassing over a million views online through the Alter and Vice platforms, and earned a feature on Short of the Week.

Passionate about expanding the horror genre in the Middle East, Hana founded Wiswas in 2022, a development company dedicated to Middle Eastern horror storytelling. That same year, she wrote and directed the pilot episode of the horror anthology series KABOOS for StarzPlay Arabia.

Most recently, Hana was a resident at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, where she continued developing her work in genre filmmaking.