Years active 1997–present Siblings Fadia Nadda Spouse Greg Dins (m. 1994) | Role Film director Name Ruba Nadda | |
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Movies Cairo Time, October Gale, Inescapable, Sabah Similar People Alexander Siddig, Patricia Clarkson, Fadia Nadda, Daniel Iron, Scott Speedman | ||
Ruba Nadda director of Inescapable at TIFF 2012
Ruba Nadda (born 6 December 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.
Contents
- Ruba Nadda director of Inescapable at TIFF 2012
- Ruba nadda interview sabah
- Early life and education
- Directing career
- Personal life
- Filmography
- Awards
- References
Ruba nadda interview sabah
Early life and education
Nadda was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to a Syrian father and a Palestinian mother.
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. 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.
In 2012 Nadda reunited with her Cairo Time star Siddig to film Inescapable, a thriller which also featured Marisa Tomei and Joshua Jackson.
Nadda is set to release 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. 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.
Personal life
In September 2014 Nadda announced that she was seven months pregnant.