Rolla Selbak
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
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.
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.
