Rita Baghdadi is an Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker with over 10 years of experience directing, producing and lensing bold, character-driven films. Rita’s first feature-length documentary
My Country No More received the
Gucci Tribeca Grant, won Best Feature at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, received a record-breaking broadcast on Independent Lens and is now streaming on Amazon. Her multi-platform doc
City Rising won three Emmy awards including Best Social Issue Film and is being used as a tool for activism around housing inequality. Rita is also an accomplished cinematographer, having contributed verite camerawork to many amazing projects including
Served Like a Girl (SXSW ‘17),
Circus of Books (Tribeca 2019 / Netflix),
On The Record (Sundance 2020 / HBO Max), and forthcoming projects for Apple TV, Amazon and the BBC.
The Hollywood Reporter recognized Rita’s camerawork for its intimacy. Rita is co-founder of the production company Lady & Bird Films. She is a Film Independent documentary fellow and her work has been supported by Tribeca, Netflix, HBO, CNN Films, A&E, Technicolor and the International Documentary Association, among others. When Rita is not in the field, she is an active mentor dedicated to empowering women and girls through documentary film training. Currently, Rita is directing several projects in various stages of completion including the doc-comedy
Eternal Life Fan Club and
Sirens, a coming-of-age story about the co-founders of the Middle East’s first all-female metal band in Beirut.
