Jasmin Mozaffari

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Jasmin Mozaffari
NationalityCanadian
OccupationFilmmaker
Years active2013–present

Jasmin Mozaffari is a Canadian film director and screenwriter of Canadian and Iranian heritage.[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[]

Jasmin 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[]

Jasmin 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[]

Main article: Firecrackers (film)

Based on her short thesis film, Jasmin 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, Jasmin 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 Jasmin a "major talent" and compared her to a "young Andrea Arnold."[12]

In March 2020, Jasmin 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. ^ a b ""The girls I grew up around weren't delicate creatures": Jasmin Mozaffari on TIFF Discovery title 'Firecrackers'". Screen Daily, September 25, 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d "TIFF 2018: One to watch – the dynamite Jasmin Mozaffari and her feature debut Firecrackers". The Globe and Mail, September 5, 2018.
  3. ^ "Nominations aux prix Écrans canadiens: le Québec vole la vedette". TVA Nouvelles, February 7, 2019.
  4. ^ "Firecrackers director Jasmin Mozaffari is the reel deal". Ryerson University. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  5. ^ Wilner, Norman (2018-08-01). "TIFF 2018: Rob Stewart, Denys Arcand, Jennifer Baichwal films among Canadian titles". NOW Magazine. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  6. ^ Keslassy, Elsa (2018-11-16). "'Firecrackers,' 'Skate Kitchen' Win Top Awards at Female-Centric Stockholm Film Festival". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  7. ^ Wilner, Norman (2018-12-05). "TIFF's Canada's Top Ten list skews a lot younger this year". NOW Magazine. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  8. ^ a b Catsoulis, Jeannette (2019-07-11). "'Firecrackers' Review: Young, Angry and Trapped". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  9. ^ Edelstein, David (2019-07-15). "Jasmin Mozaffari's Firecrackers Is a Debut Film to Watch". Vulture. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  10. ^ "Review: Canadian drama 'Firecrackers' marks the daring arrival of new talent". Los Angeles Times. 2019-07-11. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  11. ^ "'Firecrackers': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  12. ^ a b Debruge, Peter (2019-07-14). "Film Review: 'Firecrackers'". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  13. ^ Malyk, Lauren (6 February 2020). "Friedman wins 2020 TIFF-CBC screenwriter prize". Retrieved 2020-04-19.

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