Biography
Rula Nasser is an active Jordanian-Canadian film producer who started her career in the film industry in 1999. Earlier in her career, Rula worked on several International productions for the BBC and the Discovery channels. She later joined the Royal Film Commission of Jordan for five years and established The Filmmaker’s Support Program. In 2011, Rula founded “The Imaginarium Films” company that focuses on discovering local talents and developing an appealing international story embedded in the Arab world.
Having built this vast experience in various areas of production enabled Nasser to produce many local films that participated in several prestigious film festivals around the world. Some of these films are “The Last Friday” which was the first Jordanian film at Berlin international FF 2011, “Waiting for P.O.Box” that was in the official competition of the Cannes Short International Film Festival 2012, “My Love Awaits Me by the Sea” screened at Toronto Film Festival 2013, and much more that took part in over 30 film festivals. Rula also line-produced many international and regional films for Hany Abu Assad, Mijke de Jong, Mia Hansen-Love and Xavier Gianno.