
Pola Rapaport
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- May 6, 1958
- Birthplace
- 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.
Filmography

Salam Shalom - The Untold Story of a Jewish Family in Pakistan 2026
Consulting Editor
- Panoramic View: Portrait of the Artist Francine Tint
Panoramic View: Portrait of the Artist Francine Tint 2025
Director

Addicted to Life 2022
Director, Screenplay, Producer

Museum Town 2019
Editor, Writer

Heather Booth: Changing the World 2017
Editor

Nadia Comăneci: The Gymnast and the Dictator 2016
Scenario Writer, Director

A Woman Like Me 2015
Editor

Here One Day 2012
Writer, Editor

Grace Paley: Collected Shorts 2010
Editor

Hair: Let the Sun Shine In 2007
Director

Writer of O 2005
Writer, Director
- Blind Light
Blind Light 1998
Director

Broken Meat 1991
Writer, Director

Streetwise 1984
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- Comedienne
Comedienne 1984
Assistant Camera

Pool 1978
Director
Credits from TMDB.