Razan AlSalah

Razan is a filmmaker and media artist living and working between Canada, the US and Lebanon. She is the 2018 Knight Foundation New Frontier Fellow at Sundance Film Festival and was awarded the Barbara Aronofsky Latham Award for an Emerging Experimental Video Artist at the 2018 Ann Arbor Film Festival. Razan’s work has exhibited at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Blackstar Film Festival and is in the permanent collection of the Sursock Museum in her hometown Beirut, Lebanon. Her latest short film, "your father was born 100 years old, and so was the Nakba", is showing at HotDocs 2018. The film won the Sunbird Award for Best Narrative Short at the 2018 Cinema Days Palestine and has been acquired by the Palestine Films Collection. Razan was a 3-year Fulbright scholar pursuing her MFA in Film and Media Arts at Temple University in Philadelphia where she later taught both studies and lab courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels; she was also a mentor at the CAMRA Doc Fellows Program at the University of Pennsylvania.