Ro Haber

Ro Haber
Occupation(s)Filmmaker, producer, screenwriter, director
Years active2013–present
Notable workNew Deep South: House of JXN, Jellyfish, Empowered, Relapse, Ink

Ro Haber[a] is a transgender writer and director of commercial, music, and documentary films based in Los Angeles, California.[1] They attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.[2] In 2013, they were selected for the Outfest 2013 Screenwriters Lab for their feature screenplay Soledad.[2][3] In 2014 their short Jellyfish won Outfest's Grand Jury Prize.[4] Their works have gained popularity and recognition for their work exploring LGBTQ life in a number of different styles and formats.[5] These works include films like Relapse (2015), We've Been Around (2016), Ink (2016), as well as documentary works like New Deep South (2017), Stonewall Forever (2019) and PRIDE: Ep 106, Y2GAY (2021) .

They have also been recognized for their work and have subsequently been granted funding from a number of different fellowship programs for emerging filmmakers. Among these are fellowships in Sundance's New Frontier Lab (2017) as well as the Sundance Momentum Fellowship (2018), Film Independent's Episodic Lab, Outfest's Screenwriting lab, and also the American Film Institute's Directing workshop for women that was created to expose emerging filmmakers to a larger studio audience.[6]


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  1. ^ "Team". Wev'e Been Around. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
  2. ^ a b "JUNE AWARDS & ACCOLADES". Tisch NYU. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
  3. ^ Beth, Hanna (3 June 2013). "Outfest Announces Five Fellows for 2013 Screenwriting Lab". Indie Wire. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
  4. ^ Goode, Laura. "War Stories: Rosie Haber". Fandor. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
  5. ^ Dry, Jude (2017-07-14). "8 Exciting Trans and Gender Nonconforming Filmmakers Shaking Up Hollywood". IndieWire. Retrieved 2018-09-26.
  6. ^ Hayes, Dade (2017-09-29). "Universal Sets Eight Directors For 'Directors Intensive' Program Promoting Diversity". Deadline. Retrieved 2018-09-26.