Jasmin Mozaffari
| Jasmin Mozaffari | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | Filmmaker |
| Years active | 2013–present |
Jasmin Mozaffari is an Canadian film director and screenwriter.[1][2] She won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Director at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019 for her debut feature film Firecrackers.[3]
Early life
Mozaffari was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Her father (now deceased) was an Iranian immigrant who came to Canada from Tehran at the time of the Iranian Revolution.[2] Her mother is from Provost, Alberta. Jasmin grew up in Barrie, Ontario before moving to Toronto to attend Ryerson University for Film Studies.[2]
Career
Mozaffari graduated from Ryerson University in 2013.[4] Her student thesis film, Firecrackers, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2013.[1] After graduating, Jasmin directed the short films WAVE (2015), which premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival, and sleep on the tracks (2018).
Firecrackers
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Based on her short thesis film, Mozaffari expanded Firecrackers into her first feature film. Firecrackers was made through the Telefilm Canada Talent to Watch Fund.[2] The film premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival,[5] and went on to screen at other film festivals around the world; it won Best Film at the Stockholm International Film Festival.[6] In December 2018, the Toronto International Film Festival named the film to its year end Canada's Top Ten list.[7]
The film was released in Canada and the US theatrically in 2019 and became a New York Times Critic's Pick.[8]
Accolades
In March 2019, Mozaffari won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Director at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards. Her work has been praised by The New York Times,[8] Vulture,[9] Los Angeles Times,[10] The Hollywood Reporter,[11] and Variety.[12]
In his review of Firecrackers, Peter Debruge of Variety called Mozaffari a "major talent" and compared her to a "young Andrea Arnold."[12]
In March 2020, Mozaffari was one of 8 writers to be selected to develop her next feature film through the Toronto International Film Festival's Writers' Studio.[13]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 ""The girls I grew up around weren't delicate creatures": Jasmin Mozaffari on TIFF Discovery title 'Firecrackers'". Screen Daily, September 25, 2018.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "TIFF 2018: One to watch – the dynamite Jasmin Mozaffari and her feature debut Firecrackers". The Globe and Mail, September 5, 2018.
- ↑ "Nominations aux prix Écrans canadiens: le Québec vole la vedette". TVA Nouvelles, February 7, 2019.
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