Biography

Rania Attieh is from Tripoli, Lebanon. She is an MFA graduate in Media Art Production as a writer/director of fiction from the City College of New York. She has recently received the New York Women in Film and Television grant. Her thesis film was awarded ‘Best Fiction film’ at the CCNY Cityvisions showcase.

Together with Daniel Garcia they have written and directed many short films to date. Their film Almost Brooklyn was made under the supervision of acclaimed Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami and won Best Short Fiction from the Brooklyn Art Council in 2008. Tripoli, Quiet won the Black Pearl Award for Best Middle East Short at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival in 2009. Their first feature, Okay Enough Goodbye (Tayeb, Khalas, Yalla), won the Black Pearl Award for Best Narrative Film by a New Arab Director at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival in 2010.