Mary Jirmanus Saba
Directing
Mary Jirmanus Saba is a geographer and artist who works across film, text, performance and political organizing to explore questions of labor, care and social movement in the Arab world and internationally.
Mary is a member of the artist coop, ta3waniya / cooperative, a founder of the mutual aid Franz Fanon Cultural Fund and a UC Presidential Postdoc in Film and Media at UC Santa Cruz. Her feature film debut A Feeling Greater Than Love won the FIPRESCI Critics Prize at the 2017 Berlinale Forum. From 2006-2008, she coproduced the weekly broadcast television program Via Comunidad with Collective Vientos Del Sur in Ibarra, Ecuador.
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Mary’s work has been supported by the US National Science Foundation, the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, Fonds Internacional de la Francophonie, the Annenberg Innovation Lab at USC, the Harvard Film Studies Center among others.
Known for
Behind the camera5
- 2025Dead Dog Associate Producer
- 2024Mahdi Amel in Gaza: On the Colonial Mode of Production Director
- 2024A Labor Theory of Artistic Value Director
- 2017A Feeling Greater Than Love Director, Director of Photography
- 2013Notes for a Return Writer, Director, Producer, Editor, Camera Operator