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Pola Rapaport

Pola Rapaport

Known for

Directing

Born

May 6, 1958 (age 68)

Birthplace

Madison, Wisconsin

Biography

POLA RAPAPORT is a writer, director, and editor of many award-winning films. Several of her films have been co-produced by Arte/France. Rapaport is a recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, two-time NYFA Fellow, Emmy nominee and winner of numerous grants and awards. Fellow of Yaddo Artists’ Colony, 2019. She is a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts and teaches editing there.

Best known work

Streetwise

Streetwise

1984
Nadia Comăneci: The Gymnast and the Dictator

Nadia Comăneci: The Gymnast and the Dictator

2016
Writer of O

Writer of O

2005
A Woman Like Me

A Woman Like Me

2015
Here One Day

Here One Day

2012
Addicted to Life

Addicted to Life

2022
Broken Meat

Broken Meat

1991
Comedienne

Comedienne

1984
Blind Light

Blind Light

1998
Heather Booth: Changing the World

Heather Booth: Changing the World

2017

Filmography

  1. 2025

    Panoramic View: Portrait of the Artist Francine Tint

    Director

  2. 2022

    Addicted to Life

    Director, Screenplay, Producer

  3. 2019

    Museum Town

    Editor, Writer

  4. 2017

  5. 2016

  6. 2015

  7. 2012

    Here One Day

    Writer, Editor

  8. 2010

  9. 2007

  10. 2005

    Writer of O

    Writer, Director

  11. 1998

    Blind Light

    Director

  12. 1991

    Broken Meat

    Writer, Director

  13. 1984

    Streetwise

    Sound Re-Recording Mixer

  14. 1984

    Comedienne

    Assistant Camera

  15. 1978

    Pool

    Director

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