Rayka Zehtabchi

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1994-01-01 (31 years old)

Place of Birth

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Rayka Zehtabchi

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 impro...

Production

2021

2022

2023

The Old Young Crow

as Executive Producer

2022

2018

Mammoth

as Assistant Director

2019

(SHn(y)o͞of)

as Director

2020

Ours to Tell

as Director

2020

Just Hold On

as Director

2019

(SHn(y)o͞of)

as Producer

2018

We Home

as Director

2016

Madaran

as Director

2016

Madaran

as Writer

2016

Madaran

as Co-Producer

2020

A Woman's Place

as Director

2025

THE SINGERS

as Executive Producer

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