Randa Ali is a writer, director & producer working between Los Angeles & Cairo. In 2024, her short Mango, an exploration of loss and grief through a daughter-father relationship, was selected in the official competition of the 46th Clermont-Ferrand Int'l Short Film Festival.

In 2021, She was awarded the ARRI Franz Weiser grant for her film Kingdom of Strangers (2022). The film won the Jury awards at Toronto Arab Film Festival, Cairo Int'l Shorts Film Festival & Beirut Shorts. 

Randa’s work explores themes of alienation, defeat and the desire to connect in a continuously changing world. She is interested in telling stories of individuals through places and is currently in development for her first feature film project.

She is a graduate of UCLA's MFA directing program from the school of Theater, Film & Television, where she was a recipient of a full-ride scholarship offered to female filmmakers from the Arab world.