Ruba Nadda

Ruba Nadda
Ruba Nadda
Born	6 December 1972 (age 52); Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation(s)	film director, screenwriter, cinematographer, producer, & film editor
Years active	1997–present

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]

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 and completed a six-week course there.^[3]

Directing career

Nadda 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

In September 2014 Nadda announced that she was seven months pregnant.^[8]

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
- Sabah
2009
- Cairo Time
2012
- Inescapable
2015
- October Gale

Television

2016-2017
- Killjoys
2016
- This Life
2017-2018
- NCIS: Los Angeles
2017-2019
- Frankie Drake Mysteries
2017
- Valor
2018
- Hawaii Five-O
- Taken
2019
- Arrow
- Roswell, New Mexico
- The InBetween
- Krypton
2020
- Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector
2021
- Murdoch Mysteries
- Hudson & Rex (S3E3, Into the Wild)
2022
- Queens (S1E12, Let the Past Be Past)
- Riverdale

(S6E13, Chapter One Hundred and Eight: Ex-Libris)

- Tom Swift (S1E8, ...And the Book of Isaac)
- Big Shot (S2E4, 17 Candles)
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

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

^ "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

External links

Cairo Time website

[1] "Ruba Nadda : Biography". IMDb. 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] "The top 10 film directors from Toronto". BlogTO.com. 2014. Retrieved 11 October 2022.

[4] 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.

[5] Droganes, Constance (11 October 2009). "Oscar buzz begins for Ruba Nadda's 'Cairo Time'". CTV News. Retrieved 18 August 2020.

[6] Marise Strauss (24 April 2009). "Nadda, Iron ready Gale thriller » Playback". Playbackonline.ca. Retrieved 17 March 2014.

[7] Andreeva, Nellie (3 September 2014). "HBO Developing Drama Starring Patricia Clarkson From Ruba Nadda & Alan Poul". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 27 February 2015.

[8] [1] Archived 12 September 2014 at the Wayback Machine

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