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.[1]
Ruba Nadda | |
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| Born | 6 December 1972 |
| Occupation(s) | film director, screenwriter, cinematographer, producer, & film editor |
| Years active | 1997–present |
Early life and education
editNadda 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 and completed a six-week course there.[3]
Directing career
editNadda made her feature film debut with Sabah starring actress Arsinée Khanjian in the title role.[4]
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.[5]
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.[6] 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.[7]
Personal life
editIn September 2014 Nadda announced that she was seven months pregnant.[8]
Filmography
editFilms
edit- 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
edit- 2016-2017
- 2016
- 2017-2018
- 2017-2019
- 2017
- 2018
- 2019
- 2020
- 2021
- Murdoch Mysteries
- Hudson & Rex (S3E3, Into the Wild)
- 2022
(S6E13, Chapter One Hundred and Eight: Ex-Libris)
- 2023
- Magnum P.I
- Alaska Daily (S1E8, "Tell a Reporter Not to Do Something and Suddenly It's a Party")
- Gray
- 2024
- So Help Me Todd (S2E8. "P.I.'s Wide Shut")
Awards
edit- 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
edit- ^ "Ruba Nadda : Biography". IMDb. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
- ^ Mark Olsen (8 August 2010). "Indie Focus: Ruba Nadda's 'Cairo Time'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
- ^ "The top 10 film directors from Toronto". BlogTO.com. 2014. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Droganes, Constance (11 October 2009). "Oscar buzz begins for Ruba Nadda's 'Cairo Time'". CTV News. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
- ^ Marise Strauss (24 April 2009). "Nadda, Iron ready Gale thriller » Playback". Playbackonline.ca. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
- ^ Andreeva, Nellie (3 September 2014). "HBO Developing Drama Starring Patricia Clarkson From Ruba Nadda & Alan Poul". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
- ^ [1] Archived 12 September 2014 at the Wayback Machine
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