Hadid Tala

Biography

Tala Hadid was born to a Moroccan mother Kenza Alaoui while her father was Foulath Hadid, an Iraqi writer, and expert on Middle East affairs.  She is an award-winning film director and producer. She is also a photographer. Her work has shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, The Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C., L'Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris and other locations.

Hadid co-produced and directed her first full-length film while she was studying as an undergraduate at Brown University. The film, Sacred Poet, focuses the lens on the Italian poet and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini with rare interviews with Laura Betti, Bernardo Bertolucci, Sergio Citti and Ninetto Davoli.

The author of several short films, in 2000 while she was working on a project on the Macedonian Roma community inNaples, Italy, she was awarded a fellowship to study film at the graduate film department at Columbia University in New York City.