Detroit, MI, USA
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Request QuoteRazi 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.
Produced for National Geographic Partners LLC
An Intimate Look at how the Virus Upended our Lives. Photographers in five countries show how COVID-19 became a painful, shared experience around the world.
Produced for National Geographic Partners LLC
For this multimedia story on Muslims in America, I worked as a story producer, consultant, fixer, copywriter for captions, and as a videographer. I traveled as a field producer with Leila Fadel and Lynsey Addario for the project. The story was published in April of 2018.
For this story, I was reported, wrote, and photographed for this article.
Produced for Eater
COVID impact on local restaurants and businesses in Dearborn.
Produced for National geographic digital website
Remembering Lives Lost: COVID’s Toll Watch emotional testimonies from people in three hard-hit areas of the United States who have lost loved ones to COVID-19 or its complications.
Produced for NPR
This was a story I did audio recordings and photography on regarding a vigil that was being held on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The vigil was broken up due to an active shooter threat, so the coverage went from being about the vigil to the active shooter threat. The threat was ultimately a false alarm. I worked with NPR journalist Laila Fadel.
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