Parine Jaddo

Parine Jaddo (born in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Iraqi Arab Americanfilm director, best known for her production of Rasta's Paradise.

Jaddo was born into a working class intellectual and artistic family that was forced to move frequently due to political turmoil in the Middle East. Her family escaped from Iraq and moved to Lebanon where she had studied biology at the American University of Beirut with plans to become a medical doctor but soon her family fled Lebanon when civil war broke out in the mid-'70s despite her staying to finish her degree, where she was sheltered by an American couple from San Diego.

Following the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, Jaddo came to the U.S. She attended Howard University where she completed her masters in a graduate film program.

The short movie Aisha, was shot on a 35mm film while a film professor at Howard University and was filmed on the eve of the first American conflict with Iraq. This movie was screened at the Women's Museum of Art in Washington DC.

She has also worked on Sankofa with the Ethiopian film maker Haile Gerima.

• Atash (1995)
• Aisha (2000)
• Tayh (Astray) (2003)
• Rasta's Paradise
• Broken Record

• Princess Grace Award