Person
Rayka Zehtabchi
Directing · Born 1994-01-01
Biography
Rayka Zehtabchi is an Oscar-winning Iranian-American director based in Los Angeles. Her directorial debut, Madaran, is an Iranian language short that won Jury awards at top film festivals and qualified for the 89th Academy Awards in 2016. She won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short at the 91st Academy Awards for Period. End of Sentence., a documentary about a group of village women in Northern India who start a sanitary pad-making business in an effort to improve feminine hygiene and de-stigmatize menstruation. Along with the film’s release, Rayka helped co-found the non-profit “The Pad Project” to fight the stigma of menstruation and improve feminine hygiene worldwide. Rayka’s passion is telling human stories that bring awareness and action to little-known social causes. In both documentary and narrative, she brings a naturalistic approach to her storytelling, striving for honesty and intimacy on screen.
Known for
The View
Self
The Singers
Executive Producer
Period. End of Sentence.
Director
Long Line of Ladies
Director
The Old Young Crow
Executive Producer
Ours to Tell
Director
Are You Still There?
Director
Mammoth
Assistant Director
Madaran
Director
We Home
Director
Filmography
- 2026The SingersExecutive Producer
- 2023You Know Where to Find MeProducer
- 2023The Old Young CrowExecutive Producer
- 2022Long Line of LadiesDirector
- 2021Are You Still There?Director
- 2020A Woman's PlaceDirector
- 2020Just Hold OnDirector
- 2020Ours to TellDirector
- 2019(SHn(y)o͞of)Director
- 2018MammothAssistant Director
- 2018We HomeDirector
- 2018Period. End of Sentence.Director
- 2016MadaranDirector
- 1997The ViewSelf
- —They Came From All OverDirector
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