Rabab Haj Yahya
- Editor
Rabab (She/Her) is a Palestinian-American documentary editor based in New York. Best known for the award-winning feature documentaries, The Feeling of Being Watched (Tribeca, 2018 - POV, 2019) for which she won Best Editing Award (Woodstock, 2018) as well as the Critic's Choice-nominated Speed Sisters (Hot Docs, 2015 - Netflix).
More recently, Rabab edited Another Body, recipient of the Special Jury Award for Innovation in Storytelling (SXSW, 2023), HBO's The Legend of the Underground (Tribeca, 2021 - HBOMax), and the Emmy-nominated Apart (HotDocs, 2021).
Rabab is a Sundance Institute Documentary Edit and Story Lab advisor (2023), and has served as a mentor for the Documentary Contributing Editor Fellowship 2024, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, Chicken & Egg, and Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship 2022-2024.
More recently, Rabab edited Another Body, recipient of the Special Jury Award for Innovation in Storytelling (SXSW, 2023), HBO's The Legend of the Underground (Tribeca, 2021 - HBOMax), and the Emmy-nominated Apart (HotDocs, 2021).
Rabab is a Sundance Institute Documentary Edit and Story Lab advisor (2023), and has served as a mentor for the Documentary Contributing Editor Fellowship 2024, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, Chicken & Egg, and Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship 2022-2024.
