Person

Pola Rapaport

Directing · Born 1958-05-06 · Madison, Wisconsin

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.

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  Writer of O

  Director

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  Streetwise

  Sound Re-Recording Mixer

• Panoramic View: Portrait of the Artist Francine Tint

  Director

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  A Woman Like Me

  Editor

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  Broken Meat

  Director

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  Museum Town

  Editor

• Comedienne

  Assistant Camera

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  Heather Booth: Changing the World

  Editor

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  Pool

  Director

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  Nadia Comăneci: The Gymnast and the Dictator

  Director

• 2025Panoramic View: Portrait of the Artist Francine TintDirector
• 2022Addicted to LifeDirector
• 2019Museum TownEditor
• 2017Heather Booth: Changing the WorldEditor
• 2016Nadia Comăneci: The Gymnast and the DictatorDirector
• 2015A Woman Like MeEditor
• 2012Here One DayWriter
• 2010Grace Paley: Collected ShortsEditor
• 2007Hair: Let the Sun Shine InDirector
• 2005Writer of ODirector
• 1998Blind LightDirector
• 1991Broken MeatDirector
• 1984StreetwiseSound Re-Recording Mixer
• 1984ComedienneAssistant Camera
• 1978PoolDirector