Sallam made five award-winning shorts including Still Alive and The Dark Outside that were screened at many eminent international film festivals. Her latest short fiction film The Parrot (2016), a joint writing/directing project, received the 2015 Film Prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung. She is currently working on her debut feature narrative film project entitled Farha, which won the ART Award at the 2016 Dubai Film Connection (DFC), Emirati Ministry of Interior Award for Best Societal Screenplay at the 2016 Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF)and the Halo Post-Production Award at the 2017 Pitching Forum in Espinho, Portugal. Sallam is also co-founder and managing partner at TaleBox, a Jordanian production company based in Amman.