ABOUT RHYM GUISSÉ

Rhym Guissé is a Los Angeles-based director, actor and screenwriter, focused on crafting stories that empower and celebrate women and Africans from the diaspora.

Her directing credits include Directing promos for Disney/HULU's second season of Kerry Washington's Series 'UnPrisoned' as well as promos for HULU in France for the new 'Vanderpump Villa' show. She directed an 8-part social justice series for the NBA, and directed and executive produced a 5-part Nickelodeon series. Rhym was a fellow in the DGA’s Commercial Directing Program in 2022. She is currently directing a feature length documentary biopic set in the South. Her short film Cartes is on the film festival circuit and she is currently developing two feature films.

Rhym was born in Algeria, to an Algerian mother and Malian father, and lived in the Ivory Coast before moving to Louisiana. She earned a Bachelor's degree in writing. 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.