Razi J.
Detroit, MI, USA
$500 - $1000
Razi Jafri is a documentary filmmaker, producer, and journalist. His film, Hamtramck, USA premiered at the SXSW film festival and was broadcast on the PBS program America ReFramed. The film chronicles life and democracy in America’s first Muslim-majority city. Razi produced Three Chaplains about three Muslim chaplains as they fight for religious freedom in the US military. The film was broadcast on the PBS program Independent Lens. He is also the producer of Rouge, which had its premiere at the Hot Docs Film Festival. Razi’s work has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Doris Duke Foundation, the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), and the Sundance Institute. He has been awarded fellowships by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), Impact Partners, the Salzburg Global Forum, the Kresge Foundation, the Knight-Sundance Fellowship, the Sundance Documentary Producers Lab+Fellowship, and the Sundance-Disney Fellowship. Razi has an MFA from the University of Michigan.
- Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
- Event Photographer
- Landscape Photographer
- Reporter / Journalist
- Audio Storyteller
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
- Senior Producer / Project Manager
- Fixer
- Field Producer
- Production Assistant
- Copywriter
- Line Producer / On-Location
- On-Air Reporter / Host
- Immersive/Spatial Video Capture
- Non-Fiction Film Director