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. Raha is focusing on post-production of Picturesque, a narrative film funded by the Ontario Arts Council shot last spring in Mexico and her next project a documentary entitled, Prisoner of Tehran, funded by Canada Council for the Arts and Toronto Arts Council.
Raha Shirazi is an Artistic Co-Director of Plural Productions and holds an MFA 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.