Róisín Tapponi is an Assyrian Iraqi-Irish film curator and programmer, writer and PhD candidate based in London. She is the Founder of Habibi Collective, Founder CEO of SHASHA Movies, Founder EIC of ART WORK Magazine and Founder of Independent Iraqi Film Festival (IIFF).
Tapponi works at the forefront of artist film and cinema from South-West Asia and North Africa (SWANA). She has curated exhibitions and film programmes at numerous international institutions such as The Academy, MoMA, Anthology Film Archives, Chisenhale Gallery, Africa Institute, Gasworks, Art Jameel, Sharjah Art Foundation (SAF), and delivered masterclasses and talks at BAFTA, Locarno Film Festival, CPH:DOX, Sheffield Doc Fest and more.
She is a contributor at Frieze Magazine, and the catalogue for the upcoming 59th Venice Biennale. Over the past decade she has written for The Guardian, Vogue, GQ and many more leading publications. Features have been written about her work in publications such as TIME Magazine, Vogue Magazine, Office Magazine, Sight & Sound, Dazed, GQ. She was on the cover of King Kong Magazine.
She is the recipient of the 'World Leading PhD Art History Scholarship' at St. Andrews University. She has guest lectured on film at universities including Oxford University, UC Berkeley, the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (UCL) and Northwestern University.
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