Tala Hadid is a photographer and filmmaker and made her first film on Pier Paolo Pasolini. Her films have screened at festivals around the world, including Berlin and Venice and shown, among other venues, at the MoMA and Lincoln Center in NYC, the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, La Cinémathèque Française, the Smithsonian Museum and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C. Her films have received numerous awards, including an Oscar for her short film Your Dark Hair Ihsan. Hadid's last project, House in the Fields, was an official selection at the Berlin Film Festival where it was nominated for the Glashütte Documentary Award. The film was the recipient of numerous prizes at festivals around the world. Her work is part of the Ruben Bentsov Moving Image Collection at the Walker Museum and she is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.