Parine Jaddo

Parine Jaddo (born in Baghdad, Iraq[1]) is an Iraqi Arab American[2]film director, best known for her production of Rasta's Paradise.

Parine Jaddo
Born
Baghdad, Iraq
NationalityIraqi
OccupationFilmmaker
Known forRasta's Paradise
Websitehttp://parinejaddo.com/

Biography

Jaddo was born into a working class intellectual and artistic family that was forced to move frequently due to political turmoil in the Middle East. Her family escaped from Iraq and moved to Lebanon where she had studied biology at the American University of Beirut with plans to become a medical doctor but soon her family fled Lebanon when civil war broke out in the mid-'70s despite her staying to finish her degree, where she was sheltered by an American couple from San Diego.

Following the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, Jaddo came to the U.S. She attended Howard University where she completed her masters in a graduate film program.

The short movie Aisha, was shot on a 35mm film while a film professor at Howard University and was filmed on the eve of the first American conflict with Iraq. This movie was screened at the Women's Museum of Art in Washington DC.

She has also worked on Sankofa with the Ethiopian film maker Haile Gerima.[3]

Filmography
  • Atash (1995)
  • Aisha (2000) [4]
  • Tayh (Astray) (2003) [5]
  • Rasta's Paradise [6]
  • Broken Record [7]

Awards

References
  1. Thinly Veiled Contempt:Filmmaker Parine Jaddo observes the frustrations of Muslim women
  2. Parine Jaddo - Iraqi-born filmmaker, talks about her film "Atash" and her work in progress. She also discusses her experience as an Arab woman filmmaker and debates around identity and culture.
  3. Noble messages in Rasta’s Paradise
  4. "IMDb: Aisha".
  5. "IMDb: Tayh".
  6. "Parine Jaddo: Rasta's Paradise".
  7. "Parine Jaddo: Broken Record".
  8. AISHA: A Movie Written & Directed by Parine Jaddo Archived 2009-04-14 at the Wayback Machine
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