Ruba Nadda

Ruba Nadda (born December 6, 1972) is a Canadian film director. She made several award-winning short films, including Lost Woman Story, Interstate Love Story, So Far Gone and Damascus Nights before writing and directing features I Always Come to You, Unsettled and Sabah. Her movie Cairo Time won the Best Canadian Feature Film award at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival and was Best Reviewed Romance on Rotten Tomatoes for 2010. She is known for shooting feature films in very short time spans.[1]

Ruba Nadda
Born (1972-12-06) December 6, 1972
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupationfilm director, screenwriter, cinematographer, producer, & film editor
Years active1997–present

Early life and education

Nadda was born to a Syrian father and a Palestinian mother.[2]

Nadda studied Literature at York University in Toronto, Ontario. She went on to study Film Production at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

Directing career

Nadda made her feature film debut with Sabah starring actress Arsinée Khanjian in the title role.[3] The film earned Khanjian a nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role at the Genie Awards.

Her next film Cairo Time, starring Patricia Clarkson and Alexander Siddig, was released in 2009 and won Best Canadian Feature Film at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.[4]

In 2012 Nadda reunited with her Cairo Time star Siddig to film Inescapable, a thriller which also featured Marisa Tomei and Joshua Jackson.

Nadda released her next film October Gale in 2014. The film, a thriller set in Georgian Bay, would reunite her with her Cairo Time star Patricia Clarkson.[5] The film premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.

In September 2014 Nadda announced that she would be reuniting with Patricia Clarkson on a TV series for HBO titled Elisabeth.[6]

Personal life

In September 2014 Nadda announced that she was seven months pregnant.[7]

Filmography

Films
  • 1997
    • Wet Heat Drifts Through the Afternoon
    • Interstate Love Story
    • Do Nothing
  • 1998
    • 'The Wind Blows Towards Me Particularly
    • So Far Gone
    • Damascus Nights
  • 1999
    • Slut
    • Laila
  • 2000
    • I Always Come to You
    • Blue Turning Grey Over You
    • Black September
    • I Would Suffer Cold Hands for You
  • 2001
    • Unsettled
  • 2004
    • Aadan
  • 2005
  • 2009
  • 2012
  • 2015

Television

Awards
  • 2009: Won Best Canadian Feature Film award at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival for Cairo Time
  • 2010: Best Reviewed Romance on Rotten Tomatoes for 2010 for Cairo Time

References
  1. "Ruba Nadda : Biography". IMDb.com. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
  2. Mark Olsen (8 August 2010). "Indie Focus: Ruba Nadda's 'Cairo Time'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
  3. Gana, Nouri (2009). "Everyday Arabness: The Poethics of Arab Canadian Literature and Film". CR: The New Centennial Review. 9 (2): 35. ISSN 1532-687X. JSTOR 41949643.
  4. Droganes, Constance (11 October 2009). "Oscar buzz begins for Ruba Nadda's 'Cairo Time'". CTV News. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  5. Marise Strauss (24 April 2009). "Nadda, Iron ready Gale thriller » Playback". Playbackonline.ca. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
  6. Andreeva, Nellie (3 September 2014). "HBO Developing Drama Starring Patricia Clarkson From Ruba Nadda & Alan Poul". Deadline. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
  7. Archived 12 September 2014 at the Wayback Machine
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