
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
Filmography
2025
2022
Addicted to LifeDirector, Screenplay, Producer
2019
Museum TownEditor, Writer
2017
2016
Nadia Comăneci: The Gymnast and the DictatorScenario Writer, Director
2015
A Woman Like MeEditor
2012
Here One DayWriter, Editor
2010
2007
Hair: Let the Sun Shine InDirector
2005
Writer of OWriter, Director
1998
Blind LightDirector
1991
Broken MeatWriter, Director
1984
StreetwiseSound Re-Recording Mixer
1984
ComedienneAssistant Camera
1978
PoolDirector








