Tala Hadid

Hadid was born to a Moroccan mother, Kenza Alaoui while her father was Foulath Hadid, an Iraqi writer, and expert on Middle East affairs.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/foulath-hadid-writer-and-expert-on-arab-affairs-8207992.html Obituary - 'Foulath Hadid: Writer and expert on Arab affairs'] - The Independent 11 October 2012{{Cite web|url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/author/foulath-hadid/|title=Author Page|website=openDemocracy}} Her paternal grandfather, the Marxist economist Mohammed Hadid was imprisoned under Saddam Hussein. Her aunt was the noted architect Zaha Hadid.{{cite web |title=Independent UK |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/foulath-hadid-writer-and-expert-on-arab-affairs-8207992.html |website=Independent|date=11 October 2012 }}[http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/september/october-2005/artist-in-exile.html ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080819203109/http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/september/october-2005/artist-in-exile.html |date=19 August 2008 }}

Hadid co-produced and directed her first full-length film while she was studying as an undergraduate at Brown University. The film, Sacred Poet,{{Cite web|url=http://www.cinetecadibologna.it/archivi/audiovisivi/vhsdvd/film/l_34518|title=Catalogo - Cineteca di Bologna|website=www.cinetecadibologna.it}} 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 in Naples, Italy, she was awarded a fellowship to study film at the graduate film department at Columbia University in New York City.{{cite web |title=Columbia University |url=https://arts.columbia.edu/profiles/tala-hadid |website=Columbia.edu}}

In 2001 she directed Windsleepers, a film set in St Petersburg, Russia, with poets Genya Turovskaya{{cite web|url=http://www.octopusmagazine.com/issue05/essays/matvei_yankelevich.htm |title=Welcome octopusmagazine.com |publisher=Octopusmagazine.com |access-date=29 November 2015}} and Vladimir Kucheriavkin.{{cite web|url=http://www.panrus.com/books/details.php?langID=1&bookID=9325 |title=Selected works |publisher=Panrus.com |access-date=29 November 2015}}

In 2005 Hadid completed her thesis film, Tes Cheveux Noirs Ihsan. The film, shot in Northern Morocco and in the Rif Mountains, was awarded the 2005 Cinecolor/Kodak Prize and in June 2005 received a Student Academy Award.{{cite web |title=Columbia news |url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/06/01/sundance_film.html |website=columbia.edu}} It has screened at numerous Film Festivals including the New York Film Festival{{Cite web|url=https://www.creativeplanetnetwork.com/news/nytimescom-offers-short-films-new-york-film-festival-419669|title=NYTimes.com Offers Short Films from The New York Film Festival|date=15 February 2012|website=Creative Planet Network}} at the Lincoln Center,{{cite web |title=Out of focus |url=https://www.outoffocus.org/outoffocus/2005/09/so_far_so_good_.html |website=out of focus}} the Sundance Film Festival,{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2005/12/sundance-unveils-short-film-lineup-for-06-fest-77579/|title=Sundance Unveils Short Film Lineup for '06 Fest|first1=Eugene|last1=Hernandez|date=5 December 2005}} the Rotterdam Film Festival{{Cite web|url=https://iffr.com/en/2006/films/tes-cheveux-noirs-ihsan|title=Tes cheveux noirs Ihsan | IFFR|website=iffr.com}} (where it was nominated for a Tiger Award), the Fajr Film Festival in Tehran, the Kyiv International Film Festival,{{cite web|url=http://www.molodist.com/go.php/Molodist/ |title=МОЛОДIСТЬ київський мiжнародний кiнофестиваль |publisher=Molodist.com |access-date=29 November 2015}} the Sydney Film Festival, the International Film Festival Oberhausen and L'Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. The film went on to win numerous awards including the Global Lens Prize,{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070124073025/http://www.globalfilm.org/pdfs/pr_092906.pdf Global Film]}} A BAFTA special mention and a Special Jury Prize and best Actress Award at the Tangiers International Film Festival.{{Cite web|url=http://www.lemaroc.org/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926231415/http://www.lemaroc.org/musique/article_4276_4e%20festival%20m%C3%A9diterran%C3%A9en%20de%20Tanger:%20Le%20Palmar%C3%A8s%20de%20toutes%20les%20Surprises|url-status=usurped|title=4e festival méditerranéen de Tanger: Le Palmarès de toutes les Surprises , Musique Arabe, Musique marocaine, Musique Rai, Musique POP, Musique RAÏ, MP3, Interview, Actualité du monde de la musique|archive-date=26 September 2007|website=www.lemaroc.org}} In February 2006 the film won the Panorama Best short Film Award {{Cite web |url=https://www.berlinale.de/media/pdf_word/service_7/56_ifb/56_IFB_Awards.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=4 October 2019 |archive-date=23 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923233528/http://www.berlinale.de/media/pdf_word/service_7/56_ifb/56_IFB_Awards.pdf |url-status=dead }} at the Berlin Film Festival.

Hadid's work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA){{Cite web|url=http://www.globalfilm.org/newsletter/newsletter_v2i9.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070216053016/http://www.globalfilm.org/newsletter/newsletter_v2i9.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=16 February 2007|title=Global Lens|website=www.globalfilm.org}} in New York City, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis,{{Cite web|url=http://walkerart.org/calendar/2017/tala-hadid-house-in-the-fields|title=Tala Hadid: House in the Fields|website=walkerart.org}} the Smithsonian National Museum,{{Cite web|url=http://go.si.edu/site/PageServer?pagename=2019_EFF_at_NMNH_Landing|title=EFF at NMNH - National Museum of Natural History|website=go.si.edu}} the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C, L'Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, the Goteberg Kunsthalle in Sweden, the Goethe Institute, Cairo,{{Cite web|url=https://www.goethe.de/ins/eg/ar/sta/kai.html|title=القاهرة - Goethe-Institut Ägypten|website=www.goethe.de}} the Seville Biennale in Spain, the Jonathon Schorr Gallery NYC, the Los Angeles County Museum (LACMA), the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia {{Cite web|url=http://slought.org/resources/the_narrow_frame_of_midnight|title=Itar El-Layl / The Narrow Frame of Midnight - Programs – Slought|website=slought.org}} as well as the Photographer's Gallery {{Cite web|url=https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/viewpoints/cinematheque-de-tanger|title=Cinémathèque de Tanger: Explorations in Film & Video|date=19 February 2018|website=The Photographers' Gallery}} in London and the Cinémathèque de Tanger.{{Cite web|url=https://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/berlinale-forum/archive/news-archive/single/article/6587/62.html|title=The Forum @ Cinémathèque de Tanger|website=Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V.}}

In 2010/2011 Hadid worked on an independent project entitled Heterotopia, a series of photographs documenting life in a New York City brothel. In 2012 she was awarded the Peter S Reed Foundation Arts grant{{Cite web|url=https://www.petersreedfoundation.com/2012.html|title=Peter S. Reed 2012|website=www.petersreedfoundation.com}} in support of her documentary film work in Morocco. In the autumn of 2013 a small volume of a selection of her photographs was published by Stern Fotografie Portfolio series of emerging photographers.{{cite book |title=Amazon |url=https://www.amazon.com/Tala-Hadid-Stern-Fotografie-Talent/dp/B073YBK7DZ |via=amazon.com|date=January 2013 |publisher=Stern Gruner & Jahr }}

In 2014 Hadid completed work on Itarr el Layl (The Narrow Frame of Midnight), a feature film about a man in search of his missing brother. The main character Zacharia, played by Khalid Abdalla, journeys through Morocco to Turkey and eventually to Iraq during the second Iraq War. The film premiered at the Toronto film Festival{{cite web |title=Women and Hollywood |url=https://womenandhollywood.com/tiff-women-directors-meet-tala-hadid-the-narrow-frame-of-midnight-cf567458d127/ |website=women and hollywood}} and went on to screen at various film festivals and venues, including the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center at the Lincoln Center in New York,{{Cite web |url=https://www.africanfilmny.org/category/hot-fest-venue/ |title=HOT-fest-venue | African Film Festival Inc |access-date=4 October 2019 |archive-date=22 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160422140214/http://www.africanfilmny.org/category/hot-fest-venue/ |url-status=dead }} the Rome Film Festival,{{cite web |title=Getty Images |url=https://www.gettyimages.se/fotografier/the-narrow-frame-of-midnight-red-carpet-the-9th-rome-film-festival?sort=mostpopular&mediatype=photography&phrase=the%20narrow%20frame%20of%20midnight%20red%20carpet%20the%209th%20rome%20film%20festival |website=getty images}} London Film Festival{{Cite web|url=http://www.fred.fm/uk/tala-hadid-the-narrow-frame-of-midnight-lff/|title=Tala Hadid - The Narrow Frame of Midnight #LFF|date=11 October 2014|website=Fred English Channel}} and the Walker Arts Center{{Cite web|url=http://walkerart.org/calendar/2015/narrow-frame-midnight|title=The Narrow Frame of Midnight|website=walkerart.org}} among other places. The film stars Marie-Josée Croze, Fedwa Boujouane, Hocine Choutri and Hindi Zahra. In early 2015 the film won best film and critics prize at the Tangier National film festival,{{cite web |title=Telquel magazine |url=https://telquel.ma/2015/03/01/nuit-entrouverte-couronnee-au-festival-national-du-film_1436469 |website=telquel}} Jury Prize at Pleins les Yeux in the Netherlands, Credit Agricole Prize in Nice, France and the audience award for Best Narrative feature at the Mizna Film Festival in Minneapolis.{{Cite web|url=https://miznablog.org/arabfilmfest15/blog/2015/narrow-frame-of-midnight-3/|title=Mizna Arab Film Festival 2015 | Narrow Frame of Midnight|accessdate=19 May 2023}} In September 2015, Hadid's project House in the Fields was selected to screen as a work-in-progress at the 72nd Venice Biennale International Film Festival where it was awarded two prizes.{{cite web |title=Variety magazine |url=https://variety.com/2015/film/festivals/venice-final-cut-in-venice-workshop-winners-are-announced-1201588716/ |website=Variety|date=9 September 2015 }} In February 2017, the film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival where it was nominated for the Glashütte Original Documentary Award.{{cite web |title=Berlinale archive |url=https://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2017/08_pressemitteilungen_2017/08_pressemitteilungen_2017detail_36500.html |website=Berlinale}} The film was also the recipient of the Commune di Milano Prize for Best Feature Film at the FCAAL Milano Film Festival 2017,{{Cite web|url=https://news.cinecitta.com/IT/it-it/news/53/69466/vincitori-del-festival-del-cinema-africano-d-asia-e-america-latina.aspx|title=Vincitori del Festival del Cinema Africano, d'Asia e America Latina|website=news.cinecitta.com}} the Firebird Award for best Documentary at the Hong Kong International Film Festival 2017,{{cite web |title=Hong Kong International Film Festival |url=http://www.hkiff.org.hk/news/detail?id=94 |website=HKIFF}} the Fiction/Non Fiction Best Film Award at the Millennium Docs against Gravity International Film Festival in Warsaw 2017,{{cite web |title=Millenium Docs against Gravity |url=http://archiwum2017.docsag.pl/en/7344-2/?dist=warszawa |website=archiwum 2017}} the 2M Grand Prize at FIDADOC 2017, the 2017 John Marshall Award in the US,{{cite web |title=Documentary Educational Resources |url=https://www.der.org/activities/john-marshall-award-for-contemporary-ethnographic-media/ |website=DER}} the Special Jury Prize at the 2018 National Film Festival in Tangiers, and the Grand Prize of the city at the 2018 International Mediterranean Film Festival of Tetouan.{{cite web |title=Mediterranean Audiovisuelle |url=http://mediterranee-audiovisuelle.com/morocco-tetouan-international-mediterranean-film-festival/?lang=en |website=Mediterranean Audiovisuelle|date = 13 April 2018}} In 2019 Hadid photographed and produced the installation project Floodplain based on Tablet XI of Gilgamesh for the 2019 Rabat Biennale.{{Cite web|url=https://www.biennale.ma/portfolio-item/tala-hadid/|title=Tala Hadid|website=Biennale de Rabat 2019}} Hadid’s work is part of the Ruben Bentsov Moving Image Collection {{Cite web|url=http://walkerart.org/press-releases/2019/305755|title=Fall Season at Walker Cinema Features Chilean Stop-Motion Animation The Wolf House with Filmmaker in Conversation, Djibril Diop Mambéty's Hyenas, Strand Releasing 30th Anniversary Tribute, and More|website=walkerart.org}} at the Walker Museum in the US. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.{{Cite web|url=https://arts.columbia.edu/news/eight-columbia-filmmakers-invited-academy-motion-pictures-arts-and-sciences|title=Eight Columbia Filmmakers Invited to Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences|website=Columbia - School of the Arts}}

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• [http://sensesofcinema.com/2017/movements-filmmaker-interviews/a-conversation-with-tala-hadid/ Senses of Cinema interview 2017]
• [http://bkb.mpweekly.com/%E8%97%9D%E6%96%87%E9%83%A8%E8%90%BD/%E3%80%90%E6%AD%90%E6%B4%B2%E5%A5%B3%E5%B0%8E%E6%BC%94-%E4%B8%96%E8%AA%AA%E6%96%B0%E8%AA%9E%E3%80%91%E8%87%AA%E4%B8%BB%E7%B4%80%E9%8C%84%E4%B9%8B%E8%B7%AF BKB Weekly profile 2017]
• [http://berlinfilmjournal.com/2017/02/berlinale-2017-review-house-fields-by-tala-hadid/ Berlin Film Journal review 2017]
• [http://berlinale.glashuette-original.com/en/dokumentarfilmpreis/die-nominierten/ Glashutte Award nomination 2017]
• [https://walkerart.org/magazine/2015-the-year-according-to-tala-hadid Walker Art Center: the Year according to Tala Hadid]
• [https://ilmanifesto.it/la-ragazzina-che-vuole-essere-avvocato-tra-i-monti-dellatlante/ La ragazzina che vuole essere avvocato tra i monti dell’Atlante]
• [http://codacci.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it/2017/03/27/tala-hadid-un-premio-alla-pazienza/ La Repubblica profile 2017]
• [https://www.mumbaifilmfestival.com/festival/juries Mumbai Film Festival 2016 Jury profile]
• [http://e-taqafa.ma/dossier/tala-hadid-grand-angle E-taqafa.ma]
• [http://www.reorientmag.com/2014/10/the-narrow-frame-of-midnight-tala-hadid/ Reorientmag.com]
• [https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=narrowframeofmidnight Whatson.bfi.org.uk]
• [http://blogs.indiewire.com/womenandhollywood/tiff-women-directors-meet-tala-hadid-the-narrow-frame-of-midnight-20140905 Blogs.indiewire.com]
• [http://filmdooworld.com/2015/01/29/film-review-the-narrow-frame-of-midnight-2014-moroccouku-s-a-qatarfrance/ Filmdooworld.com]
• [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/323c015e-856c-11e4-a06e-00144feabdc0.html Ft.com]
• [http://www.frameworknow.com/#!THE-NEW-YORK-AFRICAN-FILM-FESTIVAL-2015-MAY-1-612-1417-2225-Film-Society-of-Lincoln-Center-Maysles-Cinema-BAMcinematek/c1ny0/557f53020cf298dc5b9a1967 Frameworknow.com]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20101215103117/http://www.telegraph21.com/video/your-dark-hair-ihsan Telegraph 21 interview]

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