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Rolla Selbak

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Rolla Selbak
Rolla Selbak is a Sundance alumna, and a writer/director of film and TV. She's a triple- minority in the filmmaking world: a queer, Palestinian American woman, and is known for bringing strong female characters to the forefront of her work. She imprints her fresh point of view as an Arab immigrant having moved from Abu Dhabi to the U.S after the first Gulf War, and often focuses on socially topical issues that are both thought-provoking and uniting.

Her credits include writing and directing "Choke", about a rising MMA fighter who hides her Syrian refugee status from her small American town, starring Jessica Damouni, and helming the internationally acclaimed feature film "Three Veils", a first of its kind to confront homosexuality within the Muslim-American subculture.

Selbak's most recent project, "Ya Bint", a dramedy TV series she co-created with Jack Ryan's Dina Shihabi, is in development at Disney's Freeform.
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Three Veils (2011)
Three Veils
6.3
  • Director
  • 2011
Choke (2018)
Choke
Short
  • Director
  • 2018
Making Maya (2003)
Making Maya
5.8
  • Director
  • 2003
Yasmine Al-Bustami in Finjan (2020)
Finjan
Short
  • Director
  • 2020

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Director

  • Yasmine Al-Bustami in Finjan (2020)
    Finjan
  • Choke (2018)
    Choke
  • Cat Davis, Bridget McManus, Karman Kregloe, and Kristen Smith in Happy Wife, Happy Life: Marriage Advice from Happily Married Non-Experts (2017)
    Happy Wife, Happy Life: Marriage Advice from Happily Married Non-Experts
  • A Day with a Muslim (2016)
    A Day with a Muslim
  • Grrl's Guide to Filmmaking (2014)
    Grrl's Guide to Filmmaking
  • Kiss Her I'm Famous (2013)
    Kiss Her I'm Famous
  • Darkest (2012)
    Darkest
  • Three Veils (2011)
    Three Veils
  • Green Blue Sea
  • Making Maya (2003)
    Making Maya

Writer

  • Choke
  • Yasmine Al-Bustami in Finjan (2020)
    Finjan
  • Choke (2018)
    Choke
  • Kiss Her I'm Famous (2013)
    Kiss Her I'm Famous
  • Darkest (2012)
    Darkest
  • Three Veils (2011)
    Three Veils
  • Making Maya (2003)
    Making Maya

Producer

  • Yasmine Al-Bustami in Finjan (2020)
    Finjan
  • Choke (2018)
    Choke
  • Sky Elobar, Jimmie Fails, and Prentice Sanders in American Paradise (2017)
    American Paradise
  • A Day with a Muslim (2016)
    A Day with a Muslim
  • Grrl's Guide to Filmmaking (2014)
    Grrl's Guide to Filmmaking
  • Kiss Her I'm Famous (2013)
    Kiss Her I'm Famous
  • Darkest (2012)
    Darkest
  • Green Blue Sea

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