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Films | Series
Rolla Selbak
Filmmaker, Podcaster, Storyteller
Rolla Selbak is a Sundance 2017 filmmaker, and a triple- minority in the film industry: a queer, Muslim-American woman.
She is a writer/director of film and TV drama, and is known for bringing strong female characters to the forefront of her work. She imprints her fresh point of view as a queer Arab immigrant having moved to the U.S after the first Gulf War, and often focuses on socially controversial topics.
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 with 20th Century Fox.
BIO
Awards
WINNER
OUTSIDER'S AWARD
OUT NORTH
THEATER 2011
AUDIENCE AWARD
B E S T F I L M
PORTLAND WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL 2011
WINNER
RAINBOW
AWARD
Honolulu LGBT
International 2011
JURY AWARD
B E S T
F I L M
AFFMA 2011
JURY AWARD
B E S T
FEMALE FEATURE
Long Island LGBT
International 2011
