Ruba Nadda
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Ruba Nadda at Canadian Film Centre 25th Anniversary Celebration in Los Angeles, 20 March 2013
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| Born |
6 December 1972 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Occupation | film director, screenwriter, cinematographer, producer, & film editor |
| Years active | 1997–present |
| Spouse(s) | Greg Dinsmore 1994 – 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.
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.
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.
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