Winner of a 2002 Guggenheim Fellowship and 2002 NYFA Fellowship, Pola Rapaport grew up in New York City. BROKEN MEAT, her iconoclastic feature portrait of beat poet Alan Granville, has been described as "Hip and adventurous ... stark and seductive ... a fascinating enigma, explored with great humor and insight " (Baltimore Film Forum); "Mesmerizing ... a perfect documentary" (Park City Record on the occasion of the Sundance Film Festival); and as "A visual joy" (Chicago New Reader). It has been broadcast domestically and internationally. Her other films include FAMILY SECRET, SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH EYEWITNESSES, TOOTH AND MASK, JOANNA'S JOBS, 0,1,1,2,3,5, OR THE WALLS HAVE THE FLOOR. Her work has been screened at festivals and museums, include Sundance, Edinburgh, Seattle and MoMA, and prizes have been awarded at many, including Amsterdam, Leningrad and Oberhausen Film Festivals. She has received grants for her films twice from both the New York State Council on the Arts and the Jerome Foundation, and a Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She works in New York as a producer and editor. Her most recent production is WRITER OF O, a feature-length, non-fiction film, a story surrounding the background and publication of a shocking erotic novel whose author hid her identity behind a pseudonym for forty years.