Hana is a Palestinian-American creative nonfiction filmmaker working primarily in documentary. Over the past decade, she has built a career as an editor, producer, and video journalist, collaborating with independent news outlets across the United States and the Middle East.
Her latest short documentary, Where the Wind Blows, won the 2022 IF/Then x The Redford Center Nature Access Pitch, premiered at DOC NYC, and received the Best Short Documentary Award at the 2024 Arab Film and Media Festival. Hana is currently developing Where the Wind Blows into her first feature-length documentary, If These Stones Could Talk. The project has earned her a 2024–25 Firelight Media Documentary Lab Fellowship, a BRIC Film & TV Lab residency, the Best Pitch Award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, and a fellowship with the UFO Short Film Lab for 2026–27.
Alongside directing her own work, Hana has collaborated as an editor and associate producer, most notably on the feature documentary Union. As a journalist, her reporting has appeared in The Nation, +972 Magazine, and 7iber, where she has explored the intersections of environmental justice, colonialism, and political resistance. As a 2024 Video Fellow at Democracy Now!, she produced stories covering grassroots organizing, labor struggles, and student movements.
Hana's filmmaking is rooted in a community-centered practice that extends beyond the screen. While developing If These Stones Could Talk, she partnered with environmental researchers in Palestine to help reintroduce indigenous wheat varieties to the region. Through organizing a community wheat harvest, she transformed the filmmmaking process into a collaborative act of environmental stewardship.