Raha Shirazi
Raha Shirazi was born in Tehran, Iran and immigrated to Canada with her family at the age of eleven. Her most recent film, a short entitled Four Walls, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007, and has gone on to screen at international film festivals around the world.
In 2008 Raha was selected as one of the six Canadian representatives in the Berlinale International Film Festival Talent Campus where she was also given the opportunity to pitch her upcoming documentary about Iranian writer Marina Nemat. Raha is currently focusing on post-production of Picturesque, a short narrative funded by the OAC shot this spring in Mexico.
Raha Shirazi is an Artistic Co-Director of (plural productions) and holds a BFA in film production from York University with a joint diploma from New York University and Famue Film School in the Czech Republic, where she completed intensive training in the cinematic arts.