About Rhym Guissé

Roukya Rhym Guissé is a Los Angeles-based director and screenwriter, focused on crafting stories that empower and celebrate women, Africans, and Muslims from the diaspora. Rhym has extensive experience as a director and producer. Her credits include Directing an 8-part social justice series for the NBA, and directing and executive producing a 5-part Nickelodeon series. Rhym was a fellow in the DGA’s Commercial Directing Program in 2022. Recently she directed a series of commercial spots for Amerisource-Bergen, and is directing a feature length documentary on racial violence in the South. 

 

Rhym was born in Algeria, to an Algerian mother and Malian father, and lived in the Ivory Coast and France before moving to Louisiana. She earned a Bachelor's degree in writing from Kutztown University. An apprentice for the United Nations, and for the Philadelphia Tribune, America’s oldest African-American newspaper, before shifting her career to film.

 

Rhym’s ultimate goal is to create narrative features with female leads challenging the status quo. Her screenwriting has been a Semifinalist at the Atlanta Film Festival, and a Diverse Voices official Screenplay Selection.

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Rhym was a 2022 Directing fellow for the DGA Commercial Directors Diversity Program.

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