Rolla Tahir

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Rolla Tahir

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Profile Details

  • Country:   Canada
  • Province/State:   Ontario
  • City:   Toronto
  • Field of Work:   Fiction/Scripted and Documentary
  • Union:   Non-Union
  • Interested In:   Directing TV For Hire, Directing Film/Digital for Hire, Developing my own Film/TV/Digital Material, Other, For-Hire Work, and Shadowing
  • Favourite Movies:   La Hain, In the Mood for Love, Tampopo, Face/Off, Beau Travail
  • Contact Information:   info@smokingapples.ca
  • Link:   http://www.smokingapples.ca/

Bio

FILMMAKER

Writer/Director – Deracine, إقتلاع| narrative short | smoking apples productions, 2019, Canada

Writer/Director – Int’maa, إنتماء| narrative short | smoking apples productions, 2018, Canada

Director/Editor – Sira, سيرة| visual essay | smoking apples productions, LIFT, 2017, Canada & Egypt

Director/Editor – I Want to Smile | short | smoking apples productions, 2016 , Canada

Director/Editor – Nafs, حالة نفسية| short | smoking apples productions, 2015 , Canada

Writer/Production Designer – Jude & the Jinn | short | LIFT, 2014, Canada

Director/Editor – Tea & Shisha | experimental | smoking apples productions, 2013, Canada

Director/Editor – Tangier, ON | short | smoking apples productions, 2013, Canada

 

PRINCIPAL CREW

DOP/Camera – Dreams Untold | short | Jamie Whitecrow, 2018, Canada

DOP/Camera – RISE | short | White Bear Creative, 2017, Canada

DOP/Camera – Lunar Schism | short | Jamie Whitecrow, 2017, Canada

DOP/Camera – Heidi Lost | short | Jamie Whitecrow, 2016, Canada

DOP/Camera – Ananke | short | Kiran Rai, 2015, Canada

DOP/Camera – A Celebration of Darkness | experimental | White Bear Creative, 2015, Canada

Camera – Out to Lunch | music video | Canada | Galkin, 2015, Canada

Chief Lighting Technician – Fowl | short | Canada | LIFT, 2014, Canada

SCREENINGS

Int’maa – Reelworld Film Festival, 2019

Sira – Open City Docs, Toronto, 2019, DOXA, Toronto, 2019, Regent Park Film Festival, Toronto, 2018, Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, 2018

Lunar Schism – Insomniac Film Festival, Toronto, 2018, Uncertain Futures, Toronto, 2017

A Celebration of Darkness – BFI Flare, UK, 2018, DeuXX, Montreal, 2018, Out on Screen Film Festival, Vancouver, 2017, Toronto Queer Film Festival, 2017, Rendevous With Madness on Tour, Winnepeg, 2017, Independent Filmmakers Cooperative of Ottawa, 2017, National Gallery of Art “50th Anniversary” Washington DC, 2017, Ciudad Imaginación, Guatemala, 2016, LIFT Round Up, Toronto, 2015, imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, Toronto, 2015, Rendevous With Madness, Toronto, 2015, Regent Park Film Festival, Toronto, 2015

Heidi Lost – imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, Toronto, 2016

Ananke – City of Bhangra Festival,Vancouver, 2016, Jakara Movement, University of San Diego, Sixth College, 2016, SikhLens, California Tour, 2015

Jude & the Jinn – LIFT Round-Up, Toronto, 2014

FOWL – LIFT Round-Up, Toronto, 2014

Intro

Rolla Tahir is a filmmaker and director of photography based in Toronto. She’s lensed short, narrative and experimental films, which screened across Canada and internationally, including the UK, the States and Guatemala. Obsessed with the durability, longevity and spontaneity of the analog film medium, Rolla has worked with Super 8, 16mm and 35mm to explore the analog process and its possibilities. Her passion in cinematography stems from the need to bring narratives to life, work with visionary creatives and to understand and be understood. Rolla’s short film Sira was selected to screen at the 43rd Toronto International Film Festival.

Reel/Clips

https://vimeo.com/smokingapples