Darin J. Sallam holds an MFA in Cinematic Arts from the Red Sea Institute for Cinematic Arts (RSICA). She directed five award-winning short films, including “Still Alive” (2010) and “The Dark Outside” (2012). Her latest short fiction film, “The Parrot” (2016), received The Film Prize from Robert Bosch Stiftung (2015) and received two jury awards from Twin Cities and Malmö Arab Film Festivals (2017). Darin’s most notable feature, Farha, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2021. She is also a co-founder and managing partner at TaleBox, Jordan.