Rita Baghdadi
@Fesiconnection
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Emmy award winning documentary filmmaker. Always looking for a horse to ride. Find me on IG: @ ritaamal
Los Angeles
Joined January 2012
Blood banks in Lebanon need blood urgently. The Lebanese Red Cross needs blood donations at transfusion centers in: Tripoli, Jounieh, Antelias, Spears, Zahle, Saida, and Nabatieh. If you are able to Please Donate. Share this around. #beirut_بيروت #beirutexplosion
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For inquiries about missing people, please call 1214. Share this with everyone. #Lebanon #Beirut_Explosion #BeirutPort
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This brown reddish cloud can be a concentration of NO2, a highly toxic gas like chlorine which is a byproduct of ammunition combustion. Dear #Beirut residents, please leave the city and spread the message. Anything less than military grade masks won't protect you against NO2.
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This is so crazy it’s morning now in New Zealand and they’re marching for #BlackLivesMatter
https://t.co/KxegRDzTK3
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What are Emmy-winning filmmaker @Fesiconnection's go-to's when on the move? Get a closer look at her trusty filming kit it #DocumentaryMag! https://t.co/agwMYaLOdl
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Spike Jonze made a video playlist featuring women DP's he has worked with--and some he hopes to in the future. Hit that link, and check out the work from these stellar women! https://t.co/t4e0wP7Frg
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"With ITVS as a funder and a partner, we were able to finish the film the way we wanted to." - Rita Baghdadi and Jeremiah Hammerling, filmmakers of Open Call-funded MY COUNTRY NO MORE. Apply now to Open Call. Deadline 2/14.
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If you feel helpless watching the rainforest burn, remember most fires in the Amazon are started to clear land for the cattle industry. Brazil is the world’s biggest exporter of beef. Humans don’t need to eat beef.
theatlantic.com
With one dietary change, the U.S. could hypothetically get 74 percent of the way to meeting 2020 greenhouse-gas emission goals.
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Congrats to director Rita Baghdadi, selected as one of the recipients of a microgrant from Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) and Pond5! @Fesiconnection @TribecaFilmIns @pond5 #FREETHEWORK
variety.com
Microgrants help artists with works that are in-process.
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I finally realized why "let's have a pow wow" in office settings pisses me off to a ridiculous degree. It's not that I got hit with some surprise racism. It's the fact that my lizard brain hears "fuck yes good food and music" and the reality is an hour talking about one email.
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If a woman has sex with 100 random men in a year, she can still only produce one full term pregnancy. If a guy has sex with 100 random women in a year, he can produce 100 full term pregnancies. So why exactly are we only talking about regulating women?
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We didn’t understand as children that our parents still had work to do on themselves.
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I would buy this thing
Someone should invent a thing that tells you what day of the week it is.
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