Sohail Dahdal is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and multimedia artist with over 25 years' experience as a leading digital media innovator with a passion for using technology to enhance the power of digital storytelling. Sohail, an Australian of Palestinian heritage, is one of the leading forces in new media filmmaking in Australia, creating some of Australia’s pioneering multimedia projects, including the award winning online documentaries First Australians and Long Journey, Young Lives. Sohail is currently teaching media at the American University of Sharjah and also working on a large-scale augmented reality documentary documenting Palestinian stories from pre-1948.