Hala Kaddoura is an artist, writer, producer and community organizer who can not seem to escape her psyche. She has a deep longing and a yearning for spirituality, consciousness, landscape, familiarity, and oral history. She is fascinated by embodied and ancestral knowledge and by the unseen. She interested in things beyond what our eyes can see and the space—where, universes form, collide and connect. The artist believes in our ability to transcend—beyond limitations: languages, religions, cultures, and borders. The artist primary works in video, film, photography, and words. In her work, Hala seeks presence, liberation, pleasure, and transcendence.

Hala holds an MFA in Art Practice from the University of California, Berkeley (2022). She exhibited and showcased work at the Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Refugee Eye Gallery San Francisco and at the Arab Women in the Arts by The Arab Film and Media Institute (AFMI). She was awarded grants by Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi, Berkeley Center for New Media, UC Berkeley's Center for Middle East Studies: The Sultan Program in Arab Studies Scholarship, and the Center for Cultural Innovation. In 2022, Hala received a scholarship to attend the Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing Workshop.

Prior to pursing an MFA, Hala worked at the Sundance Institute in Los Angeles as a Social Media Manager. She introduced the #ArabHeritageMonth to the Institute’s yearly Heritage Month Calendar and initiated on Instagram: Arab Filmmakers At Sundance at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. She also led and produced a partnership a partnership between Sundance Co//ab and CARE organization: resulting in a hybrid 6 months mentorship filmmaking program in Arabic—for Syrian youth at the Azraq refugee camp in Jordan to share/tell their stories.