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Roisin Tapponi
Roisin Tapponi is an Irish-Iraqi curator, founder of film collective, online streaming service , the Independent Iraqi Film Festival, and Magazine ART WORK.

She is the daughter of Laithe Tapponi, a surgeon, and Aileen Tapponi.

Early Life
For the first eighteen years of her life, Tapponi and her family moved between County Roscommon in Ireland, London, UK, and Bath, UK. She studied Comparative Literature at UCL, and went on to do a masters in Art History - also at UCL.

Career
Tapponi founded film collective 'Habibi Collective' in 2018, to celebrate the work of female film makers working in South West Asia and North Africa. Initially started as an Instagram account, the collective quickly gained popularity. As founder of the collective, Tapponi has given talks at film festivals around the world, and has curated films for programmes at institutions like MOMA and the ICA. In 2020, Habibi Collective started a podcast series with female film makers giving advice on different topics around film making, curating, and distribution.

In 2019, Tapponi founded Magazine ART WORK, dedicated to grassroots 'critical inquiry for cultural workers'.

In 2020, she co-founded the Independent Iraqi Film Festival with film editor Shahnaz Dulaimy.

In 2021, Tapponi launched SHASHA movies, a streaming service dedicated to film from the SWANA region.

Roisin Tapponi
Roisin Tapponi is an Irish-Iraqi curator, founder of film collective Habibi Collective, online streaming service SHASHA , the Independent Iraqi Film Festival, and Magazine ART WORK.

She is the daughter of Laithe Tapponi, a surgeon, and Aileen Tapponi.

Early Life
For the first eighteen years of her life, Tapponi and her family moved between County Roscommon in Ireland, London, UK, and Bath, UK. She studied Comparative Literature at UCL, and went on to do a masters in Art History - also at UCL.

Career
Tapponi founded film collective Habibi Collective in 2018, to celebrate the work of female film makers working in South West Asia and North Africa. Initially started as an Instagram account, the collective quickly gained popularity. As founder of the collective, Tapponi has given talks at film festivals around the world, and has curated films for programmes at institutions like MOMA and the ICA. In 2020, Habibi Collective started a podcast series with female film makers giving advice on different topics around film making, curating, and distribution.

In 2019, Tapponi founded Magazine ART WORK, dedicated to grassroots 'critical inquiry for cultural workers'.

In 2020, she co-founded the Independent Iraqi Film Festival with film editor Shahnaz Dulaimy.

In 2021, Tapponi launched SHASHA movies, a streaming service dedicated to film from the SWANA region.