Q
TFI Suppport
Tribeca All Access® 2020
Logline
Where do we draw the line between love and devotion? An intimate and haunting portrayal of a quest for love and acceptance at any cost,Q depicts the insidious influence of a secretive matriarchal religious order in Lebanon on three generations of women in the Chehab family. Filmmaker Jude Chehab potently documents the unspoken ties and consequences of loyalty that have bonded her mother, grandmother, and herself to the mysterious organization. A masterful portrait of the toll that decades of unrequited love, lost hope, abuse, and despair takes on a person,Q is a multigenerational tale of the eternal search for meaning. A love story of a different kind, this documentary delicately portrays the complexities of unseen power that intermesh the lives of those who love a woman whose heart is in the hands of someone else.
Jude Chehab
Director, Producer
Jude Chehab is a Lebanese-American filmmaker, whose early career work has landed awards screening in film festivals worldwide. Her credits include collaborations with Refinery29, She Said Films, The Players Tribune, Oxfam GB, and Doctors without Borders. She was part of Abbas Kiarostami’s last student group in Cuba, where she worked on a piece under his guidance. She is a CIFF North Star, CAAM and NeXtDoc fellow. Jude's richly visual and intimate personal shooting style has illuminated issues close to her heart including the refugee crisis and female empowerment. She has recently worked as a DP on films in Somalia, Sudan and Pakistan and as an AP on Sesame Street’s newest show for Syrian refugees. She is based between NYC and Beirut.
Rita Baghdadi
Development Producer
Rita Baghdadi is an award winning Moroccan-American documentary filmmaker whose character-driven work has been supported by Tribeca, Sundance, Film Independent, ITVS, Points North Institute and the International Documentary Association. In 2017 Rita’s documentary CITY RISING won three local Emmy awards including Best Social Issue Film. Her film MY COUNTRY NO MORE won Best Feature at the 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival and was picked up for broadcast on Independent Lens in 2019. Rita also lensed the feature documentary SERVED LIKE A GIRL which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival and received a nationwide theatrical release. The Hollywood Reporter recognized her camerawork as intimate. Rita is co-founder of the production company Endless Eye, a documentary Advisor for Sundance Co//ab and a member of Free the Bid, Brown Girls Doc Mafia and Film Fatales. When she is not filming, Rita is an active mentor dedicated to empowering women and girls through film training. Currently, she is in early production on SIRENS, a feature documentary about the first female metal band in the Middle East.