Mohanad Salahat is an independent yet well established Palestinian / Swedish filmmaker, Actor, and writer, working in the film industry in the Middle East and Europe Since 2005. Most of his films were screened on Al Jazeera Arabic and Al Jazeera World, Al Jazeera Documentary, Swedish National TV (SVT), and at film festivals worldwide. He is the founder and CEO of the film and production company; Sunbird Films in Malmö, Sweden. In 2012 he moved to Sweden where he made a short film named “Letter To Obama” 2013, together with Laika Film & TV in Stockholm. The film has been screened in about 90 film festivals worldwide, and won several prizes, notably the Filmaka the Reset Competition in Los Angeles. In 2016, he was one of the Swedish co-producers of “Beauty and the Dogs” (2017), a French-Tunisian drama film, directed by Kaouthar Ben Hania. It was shown in the section Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival 2017. His later films include the documentaries The Witness (2014) 50min , The Tyrant's Friend (2015) 50min, The Swedes Captive in Gaza (2016) 25min, Tal AL Zaatar: Revealing Secrets: (2018) 50min, The assassination of Elie Hobeika: (2019 50min). All of the mentioned productions have been screened on Al Jazeera Arabic and Al Jazeera World, Al Jazeera Documentary, Swedish National Television (SVT), and at film festivals worldwide. Mohanad worked with several production companies and film festivals in Sweden, Turkey, Qatar and Palestine as a freelance director and producer. Other than that he also frequently works as a consultant with a number of media companies, organizations, and film festivals, as well as was asked to be a preview jury for Calcutta International Short film Festival in India, 2021, also a jury member at the 5th edition of Slemani International Film Festival in Kurdistan, Iraq 2021.