Bawardi is an independent producer based in Palestine and Jordan. Bawardi has been involved in various Palestinian productions including Paradise Now, Be Quiet and Waiting for Salah Al Din. Bawardi was the production manager of Salt of this Sea. He also works as a sound technician (credits include This is my Picture When I was Dead and A Boy, A Wall, and a Donkey). He is line producer of No Laughing Matter as well as numerous other films both fiction and documentary. He has been a guest participant of the Tribeca All Access Program in New York, where his latest project, When I Saw You by Annemarie Jacir was selected, as well as the Thessaloniki Film Festival’s Crossing Borders Film Market. He has been invited to speak on several panels regarding film production in the Middle East including with Michael Moore’s Traverse City Film Festival. He also directed and produced the short film Haneen (2010).